Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JAMES, Sir DAVID JOHN (1887 - 1967), businessman and philanthropist administration of the trusts to Aberystwyth but died before the official opening of the Trusts' offices there in 1968. He received an hon. LL.D. degree of the University of Wales in 1957, was knighted in 1959, became a member of the Order of the White Robe of the Gorsedd in 1965, and the following year he was granted the freedom of the borough of Aberystwyth. His wife died 20 February 1963 and he died 7 March
LEWIS GLYN COTHI (fl. 1447-1486), one of the greatest of the 15th century Welsh bards be dated much later than c. 1486 or 1487, and it may be concluded that he died before 1490. There is a tradition that he was buried at Abergwili. A considerable body of his poetry has survived in his own hand, and his manuscripts show that he was also versed in heraldry. He wrote a few columns in the 'Red Book of Hergest,' and the 'White Book of Hergest,' lost in a fire at a London bookbinder's
REYNOLDS, JONATHAN OWAIN (Nathan Dyfed; 1814 - 1891), author , and moved to Merthyr in 1835, where he married Martha Reynolds (not related) in 1842, and had nine children. Welsh movements had his ready support, and he was secretary of the Cymreigyddion Society that met at the White Lion Inn. For many years he edited the Welsh columns in weekly newspapers, including the Merthyr Express. He was an ardent eisteddfodwr, and gained over 100 prizes, chiefly for
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant He was probably a member of the Price family of Eglwysegl and Llanfyllin. It is said that the Prices, who resided in a black-and-white house at Llanfyllin, built in 1599, and called ' The Hall,' were Roman Catholics. Thomas Price is included as one of seven popish recusants in Llanfyllin in the population 'notitia' of S. Asaph (1681?). He is said to have been frequently presented at the Great
LLOYD, OWEN MORGAN (1910 - 1980), minister and poet national festival and is remembered as the witty adjudicator of 'Ymryson y Beirdd' in the literature tent. He was honoured with the White Robe of the Gorsedd as Ap Dyfrdwy, and won chairs in Eisteddfod Tref Caernarfon (1937), Eisteddfod Môn (1953 and 1954), and Eisteddfod Powys (1958). In 1978, when he retired from the ministry, Cymdeithas Barddas presented him with a small volume of his work entitled O
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner married three times. In 1864 Sir George Elliot formed the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. with a capital of £500,000 to take over Powell's steam colliery undertakings in the Aberdare and Rhymney valleys and the house-coal level called White Rose at New Tredegar.
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario proposed Skybolt system, and assisted in Macmillan's efforts to implement a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Alongside a close friendship with the President, he developed important strategic relationships with key administration figures. Britain's influence within the White House was probably never closer. Yet Kennedy's tragic assassination in Dallas in November 1963 was not just a personal loss. The elevation
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America Columbia river, and was the first white man to descend it from source to mouth (1811), mapping as he went - a journey of over 1,200 miles. He left the North-West Company in 1812, settling at Montreal in order to construct his great map of the Far West, 'the basis of every Canadian government map for 100 years, and it still cannot be surpassed for accuracy' - it is now in the Ontario provincial archives
GRIFFITH, GWILYM WYNNE (1914 - 1989), physician and Medical Officer of Health rugby fan. During his time at the Ministry of Health, he could be seen in the Oval on the occasional afternoon. He was a regular supporter of the National Eisteddfod and was admitted to the white robe of the Gorsedd of Bards in 1979. He also turned to writing in his retirement (he had published a short comedy for young actors, Brown y detectif, in 1935) and published The day before yesterday in 1988
MAURICE, WILLIAM (d. 1680), antiquary and collector of manuscripts copyists, and to spend his time copying and studying manuscripts. In these studies he regarded Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt as his Gamaliel. He worked much at Hengwrt and compiled a catalogue of the manuscripts in the collection. He himself acquired some important Welsh manuscripts, e.g. the ' White Book of Hergest,' which was lost in a fire at a bindery in Covent Garden in 1810, and the manuscript of the
GRIST, IAN (1938 - 2002), Conservative politician listening to music. He was chairman of the South Glamorgan Health Authority from 1992. He married in 1962 Wendy Anne White, and they had two sons. He lived at 18 Tydfil Place, Roath, Cardiff. Ian Grist died, following a seizure, on 2 January 2002.
SEABORNE-DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1904 - 1984), lawyer and politician chose to put up a candidate. But Seaborne-Davies lost the seat in the general election in the following July by the narrowest of margins to D. A. Price-White, the Tory contender. He thus had one of the shortest tenures as a Member of Parliament during the twentieth century. During these keenly observed parliamentary election campaigns he consistently pressed for the appointment of a national Secretary

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