Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, DAVID (Alaw Goch; 1809 - 1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr becoming a coal-owner was in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed) at Ynyscynon, Cwm-bach, where they began sinking a pit in 1847, and entered into a lease of a coal-mine, dated 31 December 1844, for 48 years (N.L.W. Ewenny MS. 374). After Lewis gave up, David Williams carried on alone. After being successful here, he soon opened another colliery at Aberaman, obtaining a lease from Crawshay Bailey
LEWIS, DAVID VIVIAN PENROSE (1st Baron Brecon), (1905 - 1976), politician his friend, Captain Geoffrey Crawshay. During the early 1950s, the Conservative government resisted the growing pressure for the establishment of the post of Secretary of State for Wales. Churchill created a post of Minister for Welsh Affairs to be held by the post of Home Secretary. Macmillan altered this arrangement in January 1957 when he appointed Henry Brooke as Minister for Housing and Local
ROBERT (fl. 1099-1147), earl of Gloucester brave soldier, as a wise statesman, and as a patron of letters. Geoffrey of Monmouth dedicated one version of his Historia to him. Robert Fitzhamon had already built Cardiff castle, and the town is referred to as a 'borough' in his time, but it was Robert of Gloucester and his son William (below) who granted Cardiff its charter in the oldest form known to us (Mathews, Cardiff Records, i, 10-11). He
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor , and his work remains today in many churches and cemeteries in Wales, in Westminster Abbey, in Merthyr town hall, and elsewhere. He executed busts of members of the Beaufort, Guest, Raglan, and Crawshay families, and of such well-known Welsh people as Taliesin ap Iolo, Thomas Stephens, G. T. Clark, William Williams (M.P. for Coventry), and Edith Wynne. In 1859 the widow of George Virtue, proprietor
THOMAS, TIMOTHY (1694 - 1751), cleric and scholar man when he was asked to complete the work on an edition of the poems of Geoffrey Chaucer, which had been begun by John Urry (died 1715) and continued by Thomas Ainsworth (died 1719). This work, a large folio, published in London in 1721, has a preface by Timothy Thomas, who was also responsible for the glossary; William Thomas corrected and enlarged the life of Chaucer, originally prepared by John
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster Born at The Tramway, Hirwaun, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 May, 1863, the youngest son of Lewis and Amy Davies. His father was a refiner in the Crawshay Ironworks at Hirwaun. The son was educated at Penderyn elementary school, where he became a pupil teacher. He won a scholarship to Bangor Normal College, where he remained for 2 years (1881-82) and then returned to Hirwaun as headmaster of the
DYFRIG (fl. 475?), saint Tenby, Pembrokeshire. But the consequent identification of Dyfrig with the person referred to in the defective Ogam inscription on the Caldey Island stone has not as yet been justified. Of the three extant 'Lives' of Dyfrig, the two later versions composed by Geoffrey of Monmouth and Benedict of Gloucester are of little importance. The earliest 'Life' is contained in the 'Liber Landavensis,' where it
PRICE, THOMAS SEBASTIAN (d. 1704), antiquary and popish recusant Sessions for recusancy, and is credited with the collection of a large number of manuscripts which he sent to the Vatican. Lord Castlemaine found refuge at The Hall in Llanfyllin after the Revolution of 1688. As an antiquary, Price belonged to the same circle as William Maurice of Cefn-y-braich, Robert Davies of Llannerch, and William Lloyd, bishop of St Asaph. He was a champion of the Geoffrey of
RHYS, JOHN DAVID (1534 - 1609?), physician and grammarian manuscript Peniarth MS 118 contains a long treatise by him on early British history, an attempt to refute the arguments of Polydore Vergil and others against the validity as history of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. The same manuscript contains a Welsh translation, probably incomplete, of a Latin poem by Thomas Leyshon on S. Donats castle and its gardens. Everything considered, Rhys can
LEWIS, JOHN (d. 1616?) Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, barrister, and author of The History of Britain Wales against such critics as Polydore Vergil, to correct some statements made by Camden, and to vindicate Geoffrey of Monmouth. The work was edited by Hugh Thomas, the Brecknock genealogist and historian, who made some 'Additions' to the original work; Thomas probably used B.M. Harl. MS. 4872 and not Peniarth MS 252. B.M. Harl. MS. 6870 has the quarterings of John Lewis 'of Lhuynweney,' co. Radnor
PARRY family Madryn, Llŷn Madryn was not the original home of the Parrys. The first of the family in Wales was GEOFFREY PARRY (died 24 April 1658), an officer in the Parliamentary army, a zealous Puritan who hailed from Paston in Salop, and married one of the daughters of Cefn Llanfair in Llŷn (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 224); their son was the first LOVE PARRY (1654 - 1707) - there were as many as six of the name in the
LLOYD, WILLIAM (1627 - 1717), bishop of St Asaph Church Government, published in 1684. Occasionally he touched upon more secular matters, as when he discussed problems connected with Geoffrey of Monmouth's History in a long and learned letter to Thomas Price of Llanfyllin.

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