Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist land each spring, summer and Christmas time. In 1919 the smallholding had to be sold when he re-married and made his home in Blaengarw, and the aunt moved to Tonypandy. The experience of breaking up the home left a deep impression on the youth. For the final two years at school he lived in lodgings in Tregaron. This is when he received the help and lasting influence of the history master, S.M. Powell
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Liverpool University. He married (1), in 1918, Mary Powell but the marriage was annulled; and (2), in 1924, Dorothy Savile Jackson of Brougton Park, Manchester; they had two sons and a daughter. He spent two years with the Imperial Tobacco Co. and then three years in the army (1915-1918), when he was seriously wounded and discharged with the honorary title of captain. After farming in Herefordshire till
DAVIES, RICHARD (1635 - 1708), Quaker Born at Welshpool of parents who had a small estate there, he was brought up in a little learning, and in the religion and discipline of the Church of England. At the age of about 12 or 13 he became attached to the Independents, attracted especially by Vavasor Powell; in 1657 he became a Quaker, being the first of the new sect in those parts. His autobiography, entitled An account of the
DAVIES, RICHARD (Isgarn; 1887 - 1947), farmer-shepherd and poet , Caniadau Isgarn having an introduction by T.H. Parry-Williams and an appreciation by S.M. Powell. He was deeply interested in local history and antiquities, and was buried, as he had wished, at Strata Florida.
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar W. D. Davies was born in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire on December 9 1911, the son of David Davies, a miner, and Rachel Powell, his wife. Educated in Glanamman Primary School and Amman Valley Grammar School, Ammanford, he graduated with honours in classical Greek and Semitic Languages in the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, Cardiff, in 1934, completing his BD, with distinction in the
EDWARDS family Stansty, Edwards, held the recordership of the lordship of Chirk under Sir Thomas Myddelton, but is said to have fought for Charles I, and certainly married the widow of a Lancashire Royalist (daughter of Sir Thomas Powell of Horsley), for whose claims on her first husband's estate (put up for sale by the Commonwealth) John Jones the regicide himself put in a word, describing his nephew-by-marriage as 'of an
EDWARDS, Sir WILLIAM RICE (1862 - 1923), surgeon, director-general, Indian Medical Service Born at Caerleon, Monmouthshire, 17 May 1862, son of canon H. Powell Edwards. Educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford, Clifton College, and the London Hospital, he obtained his M.D. and entered the Indian Medical Service as surgeon in 1886, first in Bengal, and then, in 1890, he was appointed personal surgeon to Sir Frederick (afterwards lord) Roberts, a post which he held for four years
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines between Europe and America (1866), and between India and Australia. This is when he ventured into the coalfields of south Wales. He was responsible in 1864 for forming the partnership of Englishmen and Scotsmen who bought for £365,000 all the coal mines of the late Thomas Powell of 'Y Gaer', Newport, Monmouth, from his sons, and established the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co. which grew to be the largest
EVANS, CARADOC (1878 - 1945), author Born at Pant-y-croy, Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, Carmarthenshire, 31 December 1878, and christened David, son of William Evans, auctioneer, and Mary (née Powell). He spent most of his childhood at Lanlas, Rhydlewis, and attended the board school there before he was apprenticed to the drapery trade. He worked as a shop assistant for some twelve years-in Carmarthen, Cardiff and London. In London he
EVANS, DAVID LEWIS (1813 - 1902), Unitarian minister and tutor Powell, R.N. In 1864 he was appointed tutor in Hebrew, mathematics, and natural philosophy at Carmarthen College, where he remained until 1874. He never again worked as a minister although, having gone to Birkenhead to live, he occasionally conducted services in the local churches (1875-89) and, for one year (1879-80), resumed his work in a voluntary capacity at his old church at Colyton. He published
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician 1955 (drafted by one of Gwynfor's greatest supporters, Dewi Watkin Powell), the petition was attracting signatories by the thousands, including in the valleys of the south. By 1955 Gwynfor had good reason to believe that his dual strategy of running campaigns and fighting elections was beginning to bear fruit. He could present the decision of Churchill's Conservative Government to appoint a Minister
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian The son of John Evans (1628 - 1700) by Katherine, widow of Vavasor Powell and daughter of colonel Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester castle for Charles I. He was born at Wrexham, educated at Dissenting academies at Newington Green (c. 1694) and Rathmell, Yorkshire, and studied the early Fathers under James Owen of Oswestry. He became chaplain to Mrs. Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Salop, and shortly

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