Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JAMES (1765 - 1849) Devauden, schoolmaster Born 23 August 1765 at Blaen Trothy in Grosmont parish, Monmouth, he was a son of Edward Davies, farmer, and his wife Judith. After his schooldays at Llangattock-Lingoed, and a short period in a lawyer's office, he was for fifteen years a weaver. His marriage (1796) was unhappy, and he became a pedlar; after his wife's death he lived at Usk, where he kept a small shop till 1812; in that year he
EDWARDS, SYDENHAM TEAST (1768 - 1819), botanical and animal draughtsman Christened at Usk, 5 August 1768, son of Lloyd Pittel Edwards, a schoolmaster and organist at Usk and Abergavenny, and Mary (Reece?) his wife (of Llantilio Crossenny). His drawing ability brought him to the notice of William Curtis, botanist and entomologist, who sent him to London to study drawing. From 1798 to 1814 Edwards contributed nearly all the drawings for The Botanical Magazine and
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1719 - 1789), Independent minister, and architect . Finally, he lessened the pressure on the haunches of the arch by providing three cylindrical holes in each of them and by varying the thickness of the parapets. These bridges cost, in all, £1,153 18s. 2d. This, with attendant expenses, resulted in a loss to the builder of about £600. He erected bridges also at Usk, Pontardawe, Betws Glamorganshire, Dolau-hirion, Wychtree, Aberavon, and Glasbury. Some of
ENDERBIE, PERCY (c. 1606 - 1670), historian and antiquary in 1670, and to have been buried at Caerleon-on-Usk. In his family pedigree, he is entered between a brother born in 1604 and a sister born in 1608.
EVANS, HUGH (1712 - 1781), Baptist minister and Academy tutor , never took a pastoral charge. He was tutor of the Baptist academy at Trosnant (Ponty-pool) in 1739; there he was prosecuted under the Schism Act, but was protected by the Dissenting Deputies (see Spinther, iii, 53). Later, he kept school for some twenty years at Usk, and after that at Bristol, where he died in 1790; a grandson of his, John Evans (1767 - 1827) of Islington, is separately noticed
EVANS, JOHN (1767 - 1827), Baptist minister and head of a school at Islington Born at Usk, 2 October 1767. He was descended from the Evans family of Pentre, Radnorshire, 1712 - 1781). John Evans was educated at Bristol, where he began to preach in 1784, and at Aberdeen; he became M.A. of Edinburgh University in 1790 and was ordained at Worship Street, London, in 1792. In 1796 he opened a school in Islington for young preachers and others, which earned him renown. In 1815
EVANS, LEWIS (1755 - 1827), mathematician Born at Caerleon-on-Usk, he was the son of THOMAS EVANS (1716 - 1774), of Bassaleg, Monmouth, cleric and schoolmaster, and the grandson of a RICE EVANS of whom nothing further is known. Lewis Evans, after a clerical career, became first mathematical master at Woolwich Military Academy, and was elected F.R.S. (1823). His Welsh birth would barely justify his inclusion here, for he had no other
EVANS, WILLIAM (Cawr Cynon; 1808 - 1860), colliery official and poet of Caerleon-on-Usk at Abergavenny eisteddfod, 23 November 1836. A poem written on the birth of a son to Sir John and lady Charlotte Guest won him the admiration of lady Charlotte, and a post as foreman in the Dowlais works. He lived for a time at Hirwaun, and it was while there that he adopted the bardic title of Cawr Cynon. He returned to Dowlais, and later became the ' mine agent ' at the
GWYNLLYW (fl. late 5th-early 6th century), saint the number as seven), Gwynllyw inherited the principal seat of his father's kingdom, namely, the territory lying between the rivers Usk and Rhymney, which was called ' Gwynllwg ' ('Wentloog') after him. His youthful exploits in battle earned him the epithet ' milwr ' (warrior). He married Gwladys, daughter of Brychan Brycheiniog (against her father's will, according to the ' Life of S. Cadoc') and
HAINES, WILLIAM (1853 - 1922), local historian and bibliographer received by him from other bibliographers and men of letters (for a list of the writers see N.L.W. Handlist of MSS., xi) when he was compiling the bibliography. He died 12 January 1922 and was buried at Llangattock-juxta-Usk, near Abergavenny.
HAYCOCK, BLODWEN MYFANWY (1913 - 1963), artist and author the outbreak of World War II she was in turn wages clerk in a munitions factory, assistant welfare officer in a factory in Cardiff's slumland, teacher, and information officer for the Institute of Agriculture at Usk. In 1943 she joined the B.B.C. in London: two of her radio plays were broadcast and her poems read over the air. Leaving the B.B.C. in 1945, she became a successful journalist in London
HERBERT family rapidly accumulated lands and offices in South Wales, including the lordships of Usk, Trelleck, and Caerleon, formerly part of the earldom of March, and one of the king's gifts to Anne Boleyn. He was also given the lands of Wilton monastery, Wiltshire, served in the Boulogne campaign of 1544 and in the defence of the Isle of Wight in 1545, and was given the right to keep thirty liveried retainers. As an

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