Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWENFREWI (fl. early 7th century), saint her sanctuary at Holywell, where she is supposed to have been miraculously restored to life by S. Beuno, there formerly stood, it was believed, a chapel founded by Beuno himself. That she was subsequently in close touch with Saint Eleri, spending her later years with the latter at Gwytherin (where she was in the first place interred), may also probably be regarded as fact. Her personal cult, however
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator Davies (1926-2009). They married in 1952 and although she brought up their four children, Eleri, Rhodri, Catrin and Gwen, in Otley, Yorkshire, she sought to pass on to them their Welsh-language heritage. With her husband she translated André Gide's novel La Symphonie pastorale under the title Y Deillion (1965). After her husband retired from the chair of Spanish in Leeds in 1986, they moved to
DAVIES, JOHN SALMON (1940 - 2016), scientist in 1964, and they made their home in Killay, Swansea. They had two daughters, Eleri and Meinir. Within the field of organic chemistry his research specialism was peptides, compounds based on amino acids which occur naturally in the human body, especially in skin cells. With the support of groups of researchers over several years, John worked on reforming the structure of peptides, thereby making
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator bilingualism in primary schools through visiting schools in mid and west Wales. During this period he met and married Eleri, daughter of the poet and minister T. Eirug Davies, and they had one son, Tomos. He worked for the BBC in Swansea and Bangor for a decade between 1954 and 1964 as a radio producer, and also presented a number of shows. The range of his interests and knowledge was shown in the wide

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