Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COLLINS, WILLIAM LUCAS (1815 - 1887), cleric and author
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist back-street abortionist. She worked as a secretary for Plaid Cymru MPs for a while. She married a pathologist called Andy Hawks in 1965 but she fell in love with Cliff Coppack, a divorcee with a teenage daughter, whom she married in London in 1971. She returned to the Vale of Clwyd on 1st January 1980 and settled in Ruthin. In retirement, she made full use of her leisure. As an author, she published
COX, LEONARD (fl. 1524-72), schoolmaster and author
CROPPER, THOMAS (1869 - 1923) Buckley, antiquary He had a successful printing and bookseller's business in Buckley and took a great interest in the local history and antiquities of his native town and district. He contributed articles on these subjects to The Cheshire Sheaf and The Chester Chronicle and was the author of Buckley and District, 1923. He died a few weeks before the publication of his book [preface dated 20 September ].
DAFYDD ap GRUFFYDD (fl. c. 1600) Drewyn,, poet Author of didactic verses bearing the title 'Karol o siample da i wyr ag i wragedd i fyw yn gyttyn ag i ddysgv i plant' (NLW MS 10248B). Another copy, but without the title, appears in B.M. Add MS. 14974.
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet He is best known as the author of some fifty of the 200 extant vaticinatory poems (cywyddau brud) of his generation. In his day he was also famed as an interpreter of the old Welsh prophetic books. His home was in Llanwrin parish, and the pedigrees record that both he and Margaret, his wife, were sprung from leading families in that part of the country. He outlived his children, of whom three
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard be that Edward Dafydd was one of them. Some of his work in his own hand is in ' Llyfr Hir Llanharan ' in the Cardiff Public Library; there is another collection in N.L.W. Llanover MS. B. 20. Some poems attributed to him are in Llanover B. 12, relating to the time of Cromwell and Charles II. Amongst these is a cywydd welcoming Charles on his return to England; it is obvious that its author was a
DAVIES, BEN (1840 - 1930), Independent minister, popular preacher, and author
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Bryan Martin Davies was born in Brynaman, Carmarthenshire, on 8 April 1933, the son of Horace Davies (1900-1950), coalminer, and his wife Evelyn (née Martin, 1909-1997). He was raised in the close community of this Welsh-speaking coalmining area, and participated in its lively poetic culture which had produced luminaries such as the author of englynion, Gwydderig (Richard Williams), and the poet
DAVIES, DAVID (1741 - 1819), author
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author
DAVIES, DAVID CHARLES (1826 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College Trevecka in 1863 and 1864, and a tutorship at Bala in 1874, at the end of 1888 he accepted appointment to Trevecka as principal after the death of William Howells; a very successful tenure of the post was cut short by his death at Bangor, 26 September 1891. Davies, despite chronic ill health, was an assiduous lecturer, writer, preacher, author, and teacher, who has many volumes of commentaries, articles

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