Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician Born 1 October 1859 at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire. As a child he was taught music by Hugh Griffith and Richard Mills (1840 - 1903 of Rhos. Before he was 20 he had won a prize for singing Handel's 'Total Eclipse.' Joseph Parry (1841 - 1903), the adjudicator, praised him highly and urged his friends to assist him to get a course of instruction at the University College, Aberystwyth. Funds
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
DAVIS family, coalowners father had been. He took a prominent part in inducing Henry Richard to seek election as Member of Parliament for the Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare district (1868) and, like his brother, Lewis, was invited to contest the second seat there when Richard Fothergill ('III ') retired in 1880. A good employer, he kept the Davis collieries open throughout the ' lock-out ' of 1875, and subsequently became vice
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster vale of Cletwr, and from that time on was known as 'Dafis Castellhywel.' Here he kept a school for over thirty years and his reputation as a teacher spread throughout Wales; for many years candidates for Anglican orders were ordained direct from the school. The names of 111 of his former pupils are to be found in the list of subscribers to Telyn Dewi. He was a friend of Richard Price, Edward Williams
DAVIS, RICHARD (1658 - 1714), Independent minister
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary Born at Buttington, near Welshpool, 26 December 1837, the son of Richard Dawkins, vicar of Buttington. He was educated at Rossall School and Jesus College, Oxford [where he reached class II in classical moderations (1859) and class I in natural science (1860)]. He became an officer of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1861-9, curator of the Manchester Museum, 1869, professor of geology at
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, this last quarrel being the amalgamation of the two Carmarthen's. He was also a commissioner for the coastal defence in South Wales in 1539. He is credited with the foundation of the grammar school at Carmarthen which from 1576 bore the title of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School. Sir RICHARD DEVEREUX (died 1547) Son of Walter. He deputized for his father in many of his Welsh offices, became mayor of
DILLWYN family VENABLES -LLEWELYN; on the Venables (a Cheshire family originally) see Williams, Hist. of Radnorshire (2nd ed., 383-4). Lady Venables-Llewelyn was the daughter of Richard Lister Venable (1809 - 1894), vicar of Clyro, who figures in the diaries of Francis Kilvert, and whose brother George Stovin Venable (1819 - 1888), classical scholar and writer in the Saturday Review, is in the D.N.B. - his fight with
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, Willis, Bangor, 112). Anthony Wood describes him as 'learned,' but no work of his has survived save some undergraduate verses in memory of a fellow-student, Sir Edward Lewkner (died 1605), a connection of Sir Richard Lewkner the Welsh judge and Pembrokeshire magistrate (Williams, Welsh Judges, 33; Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, I, iii, 82). The bequest to his college of funds for the purchase of some
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel Lancastrian lordship of Cydweli in 1388-89. In 1394-95, he served with Richard II in Ireland. However, by 1403, perhaps as early as 1401, Dwn had allied himself in rebellion with Owain Glyndŵr. In a letter, in Latin, 'to our very dear and entirely well beloved Henri Don', Glyndŵr writes to 'command, require, and entreat' Dwn to join him 'with the greatest force possible'. While this letter may never have
DWNN, OWAIN (c. 1400 - c. 1460), poet , justice of South Wales, when the latter's sun set in 1447. There is evidence (Panton MS. 40 (83)) that he served in Ireland under Richard, duke of York, father of Edward IV, and it was to him, perhaps, that Hywel Dafydd addressed a cywydd which is full of references to that service. Owain's wife was Catherine, daughter of John Wogan of Picton, Pembrokeshire, and their son, Harry Dwnn, and a nephew of
DYER, JOHN (1699 - 1757), poet acquaintance of Aaron Hill and his circle, which included James Thomson and Richard Savage. In A New Miscellany, which is presumed to have been published in that year, 1726, there appeared Dyer's 'Grongar Hill' in octosyllabics; also in 1726 it came out in a pindaric version in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, ed. Savage; and finally, in Miscellaneous Poems, ed. D. Lewis, yet another version in

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