Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CYNWAL, WILLIAM (d. 1587), poet best-known of his bardic controversies is the long one between Edmwnd Prys and himself. He also produced works of heraldry (e.g. Bangor MS. 5943), a chronicle (Peniarth MS 212), a grammar (Cardiff MS. 38), and part of a dictionary, extant in the hand of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) (NLW MS 13142A). A copy of his will, made shortly before his death, is kept at N.L.W. He was buried at Ysbyty Ifan
DAFYDD ap GWILYM (fl. 1340-1370), poet all parts of Wales : he knew Gruffudd Gryg of Anglesey and Madog Benfras of Maelor. He sang to Newborough in Anglesey, visited the cathedral at Bangor, and eulogized the dean, Hywel ap Goronwy. Men and women of noble birth in Ceredigion were also the subjects of eulogies by him. It has been generally supposed that Dafydd's chief patron was Ifor ap Llywelyn, or Ifor Hael, of Bassaleg (now in
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet name, Dafydd Llwyd fab Gwilym Gam. Dafydd visited patrons in Gwynedd as well, as shown by his poems to the Dean of Bangor and in praise of the town of Newborough in Anglesey. One of his comic poems is located in Newborough too, and another tells how he was transfixed by the sight of a beautiful girl in Bangor Cathedral. But his most famous patron was a nobleman from Glamorgan, Ifor ap Llywelyn of
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince years later the pope instructed the bishops of Bangor, S. Asaph, and S. Davids to see that the oath of fealty to Dafydd, taken by the magnates of Wales at the king's command was being strictly observed. The attainment of majority was marked in 1229 by the rendering of homage to the Crown; provision was made for an annual grant of £40 from the Exchequer, pending the receipt of an equivalent in land. In
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor signature, the house was that of the archdeacon of Bangor, and only if ' archdeacon ' be an error for ' dean ' can Dafydd Daron be brought into the story.
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Society, 1934. In a list of clergy in the diocese of Bangor in the year 1504 Dafydd Trevor is described as rector of Llanygrad, i.e. Llaneugrad-cum-Llanallgo, Anglesey, and as a canon. This is how he describes himself in a deed (dated 1524 and signed by himself) by which he transfers ' Tyddyn Hwfa ' near Llangeinwen church, Anglesey, to Owen Holland and others - 'Ego dominus david Trevor clericus alias
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner of his stand as a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Cardiff Education Committee dismissed him from his teaching post. Following a period as a clerk, Glamorgan Education Committee appointed him to teach at Cogan School, Penarth. In 1952 he became headteacher of Gwaelod y Garth School. Gwyn Daniel died following a heart attack in Bangor on 31 October 1960 while visiting UCAC
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools Born 26 June, 1902, in Bangor, the elder of the two sons of Morgan Daniel (1864 - 1941), Independent minister, and Anna, his wife. J.E. Daniel was educated at Friars School, Bangor and nurtured in the classical tradition. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and in 1922 he took a first class in Classical Moderations and the following year, a first class in Literae Humaniores
DAVID (d. 1139?), bishop of Bangor (Dyfrig) and Elgar the hermit from Bardsey. He was at the death-bed in 1137 of Gruffudd ap Cynan, whom he did not long survive, for in December, 1139, his successor, Meurig, was presented to the king as the elect of Bangor.
DAVIES family, smiths (1727), and Oswestry church (1738). Other gates and screens attributed to them with certainty are at Plas Coed-llai, Mold; Eaton Hall, Cheshire; Erddig Hall, Wrexham; and Emral Hall, Bangor Iscoed; and with a high degree of probability, gates at Castell Coch, Welshpool; Abbey House, Shrewsbury; Malpas church, Cheshire; Carden Hall, Malpas; Plas Llan-rhudd; and a number of others.
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian military interpreter, he was sent to learn Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among his colleagues there were John Silkin (1928-1987), the novelist Richard Mason (1919-1997), Peter Parker who was later the head of British Rail, and John Watkins who was to become a French lecturer at Bangor. He was quickly promoted in the 14th Army in Burma as an intelligence officer
DAVIES, ANNIE (1910 - 1970), radio and television producer to 1923 when she went to Tregaron county school. In 1929 she went to U.C.W., Aberystwyth, and took her finals in history and Latin in June 1932, but graduated in 1933. She was for a period on the staff of Cardiff city library before joining the B.B.C. in 1935 as secretary to Sam Jones. She assisted him in establishing the very fine tradition of Welsh radio broadcasting at Bangor. In 1946 she left

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