Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, JAMES (1866 - 1931), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 16 April 1866 at Ystalyfera; his parents were members of the Independent church, but on the father's death (when the boy was 13) the family moved to Tonna near Neath, and there joined the Calvinistic Methodists. After working at the Aber-dulais tin-plate works, Evans began preaching, and in 1891 went to Trevecka. He was pastor at Pontardulais (1895-1900), at Bethel, Brecon (1900-10), and
DAVIES, GETHIN (1846 - 1896), Baptist minister and college principal Bangor was effected in 1892, for he, was convinced that a Baptist college should be retained in North Wales, where so many churches largely depended on the support it could give them. He died in London, 17 March 1896. As ' Gethin Dulais ' he contributed verse to Welsh periodicals; he also wrote a number of Welsh hymns.
FRANCIS, GWYN JONES (1930 - 2015), forester Meryl Jeremy from Carmarthen with whom he had three children, Richard, Kay and David. After Meryl's death in 1985 he married Audrey Gertrude Gemmel (née Gill) of Toronto, Canada. On the completion of his national service in 1954, he joined the Forestry Commission as a District Officer in Neath, with responsibilities related to the Commission's extensive young forests in the Afan, Neath and Dulais
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader Dai Francis was born on 5 February 1911 at Glynhelig House, New Road, Pantyffordd in Seven Sisters, near Neath in the Dulais Valley, the second of the six children of Thomas Francis, a coal hewer, and his wife Winifred (née Morgans). Thomas Francis had voted regularly for the Labour Party from 1918 onwards and was the only one in the village to buy the Daily Herald each morning. Welsh was the
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure to contest the October 1974 election. Proud of the Conservative achievement in Wales, he reacted sharply to criticism of the party's record between 1970 and 1974. In a letter to The Times of 11 June 1975, he recalled that Heath's government had cancelled the Mid-Wales Rural Development Board, saved the valleys of the Senny and Dulais from flooding, set up the Welsh language advisory committee
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian (1975) and Horse Power and Magic (1979). While these established him as the foremost interpreter of England's 'gwerin', in From Mouths of Men (1976) he returned to south Wales to record the experiences of the anthracite drift miners of the Dulais valley in west Glamorgan. Though he often pondered a permanent return to Wales he remained in East Anglia, living successively in Blaxhall (1948-56), Needham
GETHIN DULAIS - see DAVIES, GETHIN

Search results

1 - 7 of 7 for "Dulais"