Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr was its devoted servant for the remainder of his life. He was a colleague of Sir Hugh Owen's and it was through him that the latter carried out his work for Wales, as the correspondence (in the possession of the family) clearly shows. He wrote a memoir of Sir Hugh Owen, 1885. In 1867 he was appointed to the staff of the North and South Wales Bank and worked for a time in Liverpool, Welshpool, and
DIVERRES, POL (1880 - 1946), linguist, Celtic scholar, and sometime Keeper of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales to the National Library. His most important publications were Le plus ançien texte de Meddygon Myddveu … (Paris, 1913) and Le Siège de Lorient par les Anglais en 1746 … (Rennes, 1931); articles in Revue Celtique and Les Annales de Bretagne. Diverres married, in 1913, Elizabeth Jones ('Telynores Gwalia'), daughter of Hugh Jones ('Trisant'), Liverpool; they had one son. Diverres died 25 December 1946
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, , but his brother JOHN DOLBEN (of Caeau Gwynion) became through his daughter Emma (married Rev. Hugh Williams of Llantrisant) the grandfather of Sir William Williams the Speaker (1634 - 1700). Another brother, WILLIAM DOLBEN (died 1643), after receiving a pardon from Charles I in 1625 for crimes of violence, was dismissed from the county bench and the aldermanship of Denbigh as a ' common barrator
DONNE, JAMES (1764 - 1844), cleric and schoolmaster succeeded his father as headmaster at Oswestry. Donne corresponded with a group of Welshmen who were interested in cultural matters, among these being Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), W. J. Rees of Cascob, Hugh Davies (author of Welsh Botanology), Rowland Williams, Ysgeifiog, John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), and others.
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer skills and a genial personal style which easily captured support and votes. While an MP, he still acted as adviser to the engineering firm David Brown, to Philips Industries, and to Hill Samuel in order to increase his personal income. In parliament Donnelly became a Bevanite from 1951 and also a close confidant of Hugh Dalton. He grew to support German rearmament and became increasingly absorbed in
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist students at the education department of University College Bangor and he studied there for two years. When he had completed his course, he took a post as assistant teacher in the Wesleyan School at Dartford, Kent. He spent two years there and began to write for the press - Illustrated Bits, Sketchy Bits - and for John Hugh Edwards ' Young Wales. He moved to a school in Surbiton and, after two years
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician Huw T. Edwards was born on 19 November 1892 in a cottage called Pen-y-ffridd, Ro-wen, Caernarfonshire, the youngest son of Huw Edwards, quarryman, and his first wife Elizabeth (née Williams). 'Hugh' was the name registered on his birth certificate but he was known for most of his life by the Welsh spelling 'Huw'. In his public and private life he was commonly referred to as 'Huw T'. Huw T grew up
EDWARDS, J. HUGH - see EDWARDS, JOHN HUGH
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. again defeated Corbett. In 1841 he was defeated by the Tory candidate Hugh Cholmondeley of Vale Royal. Throughout his parliamentary career he supported the Grey and Melbourne Governments and was rewarded with a baronetcy in 1838. He was described in 1842 as 'the first representative of popular opinions in the Montgomeryshire boroughs.' He died 19 April 1850. His daughter and heiress married, in 1846
EDWARDS, JOHN HUGH (1869 - 1945), politician and writer
EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837 - 1900), Calvinistic Methodist minister, exegete and preacher calls on Edwards as a preacher. But, in spite of all criticism, there is no difficulty in accepting the following verdict: 'If it is no exaggeration to say that without Sir Hugh Owen the University College of Wales would never have been established, it is certainly less to say that it would never have reached its twentieth birthday but for Thomas Charles Edwards. It was his magnetic personality and

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