Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist . Authoring Is Monmouthshire In Wales? (1943), they both led a long Party campaign against its partition from the country. Importantly, they were able to produce this prodigious research output as they were financially independent due to an investment portfolio gifted to the couple by Noëlle's father on their marriage. Active in the Welsh Nationalist Party's intellectual renaissance during World War Two and
DAVIES, RHYS JOHN (1877 - 1954), politician and trade union official contributor to the Welsh language press, especially to Y Cymro and Y Tyst. He published a selection of those articles in two short books, Seneddwr ar Dramp (1934) in which he gives his impressions of foreign countries he had visited, and Pobl a Phethau (1943) which contains interesting biographical details and reminiscences. He also published in 1941 a pacifist pamphlet, Y Cristion a Rhyfel (Pamphledi
DAVIES, TOM EIRUG (Eirug; 1892 - 1951), Congl. minister, writer and poet ), and chapters on Philip Pugh and his predecessors in Y Cofiadur, 1937, and on the faith of the Congregationalists in Ffyrdd a Ffydd (1945). He edited Y Dysgedydd 1943-51, and his contributions showed him to be an astute thinker and writer on a range of topics. For a period his notes concerned ' Gwernogau ' - his old area in Carmarthenshire These were collected under the title Yr Hen Gwm (1966
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Independents. He returned to Oxford, this time to Mansfield College, and between 1940 and 1943 immersed himself in theology under the guidance of Nathaniel Micklem, Principal of Mansfield, and the liberal theologian C. J. Cadoux, church historian and New Testament scholar. He married Rosemarie Wolff in 1943, a nurse at Oxford and member of the Lutheran Church, who had fled Hitler's Germany because of her
DEAKIN, ARTHUR (1890 - 1955), trade union leader he held for ten years. He was influential, too, within the General Council of the Trades Union Congress, and he himself chaired the Congress in 1951-52. Deakin held a large number of posts on committees and public bodies, and he was one of the directors of the Daily Herald. He received the C.B.E. in 1943, became a C.H. in 1949 and he was chosen as a member of the Privy Council in 1954. He was a
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge the same function for Swansea. He remained in that post until 1953. In the meantime, in 1943, he took silk and in 1948 became a bencher of his Inn. Finally, in 1953, he became Recorder of Cardiff. His position as a well-known counsel for the defence in criminal cases was established shortly after the war, when he was involved in several famous murder trials that gained some media publicity. In 1958
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru named, he edited A catalogue of Star Chamber proceedings relating to Wales (1929), which gives some indication of the field - Welsh history - in which he would have desired to work had he not vowed to serve the Urdd to the best of his ability. He was co-author (with E. Tegla Davies) of Llyfr y bobl bach (1924), a book for young children; author of Yr Urdd 1922-43 (1943); a short autobiography Clych
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN GORONWY (1891 - 1976), historian at Oxford on The Second Century of the English Parliament (published posthumously in 1979). Edwards's studies of the inter-related development of medieval Wales and England, their political structures and institutions, were original in conception and remain influential. None of his writings was ephemeral. His scholarly eminence was widely recognised: Fellowship of the British Academy in 1943
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (Gwilym Deudraeth; 1863 - 1940), poet works were published: Chydig ar Gof a Chadw, ed. by Isaac Davies, Birkenhead, in 1926, and Yr Awen Barod, ed. by J. W. Jones, Blaenau Ffestiniog, in 1943. He was one of Wales's most original and dexterous writers of englynion. He died 20 March 1940 and was buried in Allerton cemetery, Liverpool.
ELLIS, THOMAS IORWERTH (1899 - 1970), educationalist and author the National Library of Wales. He was Warden of the Guild of Graduates 1943-47, a member of the Governing Body of the Church in Wales and the Representative Body. He was treasurer of the Welsh Council of Churches 1961-66, and a member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. In 1967 he was awarded the honorary degree LL.D. by the University of Wales, and the following year was created O.B.E. It
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor and 1943. He appeared in the Welsh coal mining picture Proud Valley with Paul Robeson in 1940 and starred with Tommy Trinder as the Foreman in The Foreman Went to France in 1942, an early Ealing Comedy. In 1943 he married the actress Hermione Hannen (1913-1983). His career was put on hold in 1943 when, as a conscientious objector, he joined the Non-Combatant Corps. He directed and starred in
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar holder of the Mary Towyn Jones Scholarship, to study classics and Welsh. As a child he had played at 'holding services' on his own, and as he grew older, the life of the chapel and Sunday school developed into mature conviction and he was accepted as a ministerial candidate in the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He graduated in Latin and Greek in 1942 and with first-class honours in Welsh in 1943 having

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