Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician World War I, during which he served in France and Italy, he became a research student at the London School of Economics. Dalton published his Principles of public finance in 1923. By this time, he had entered the world of politics and he was elected M.P. for Peckham in 1924. He changed his constituency to Bishop Auckland which he won in 1929. He was Chairman of the Labour Party in 1936-37. During
DAVID (d. 1139?), bishop of Bangor After the removal of Hervé there is a gap in the history of this see; no bishop was recognized by Canterbury until 1120. In that year, Gruffudd ap Cynan, now on good terms with the king, wrote to the archbishop, saying that one David had been chosen by himself and the clergy and people of Wales, with the royal assent, and asking that he should be consecrated. The request was granted; on 4 April
DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop York, but the poets reveal that, like many others, he changed sides and supported Henry Tudor in his need. He was at one time abbot of Strata Marcella, and for a period abbot of Strata Florida. Sometime after the end of 1489 he became abbot of Aberconwy at Maenan, and continued there after his elevation to the bishopric of St Asaph, 12 December 1503. By name of David, bishop of St Asaph, or David
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales Book of Taliesin, 13) early in the 10th century, as the spiritual leader of the Welsh against the English. His 'Life' was written by Rhygyfarch, son of Sulien, bishop of S. Davids c. 1090, and this is the source of every 'story' of his life. Rhygyfarch states that he made use of ancient records at S. Davids, some of them in the saint's own hand, but the contents of the 'Life' consist of a mixture of
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author campaign for disestablishment, but his personal relations with bishop John Owen (1854 - 1926) became most friendly. At 62, he became a frequent competitor at the national eisteddfod, and won several essay prizes (one of the essays submitted by him was The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature, published in 1926). An effect of this competing was to make him a caustic critic of
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph soon after graduation began accumulating sinecure benefices in the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph. He probably lived at Oxford till 1537, then at Cambridge, where he took his LL.D. from S. John's in 1548. It is unlikely that he was the Thomas Davies who became archdeacon of St Asaph in 1539-40 but was deprived during the drive against married clergy in 1554, since the future bishop kept all his
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse devotion to the theatre. In 1820, after a visit to Bala (which she found 'dull') she became maid in a sea-captain's family, and for years rounded the globe, meeting all sorts of people (including William Carey and bishop Heber), acting Shakespeare on ship-board, undergoing remarkable adventures (on her own perhaps rather boastful testimony), but sedulously refusing the adventure of matrimony - one gets
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (Dyfrig; 1847 - 1927), cleric Son of Thomas Davies and Rachel his wife. Born. 20 June 1847 at Cwmcefn, Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire, educated at Ystrad Meurig and at S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated in 1869. After a year spent in teaching at Greenock, he was ordained deacon in 1870 by bishop Ollivant of Llandaff, and priest in 1871. After serving curacies at Llanwynno, Ferndale, and Betws, Glamorganshire
DAVIES, FRANCIS (1605 - 1675), bishop of Llandaff Peterborough as chaplain. At the Restoration, 1660, he returned as rector of Llan-gan and applied for the tithes of Llantrithyd. He petitioned for the archdeaconry of Llandaff on the grounds of his ejection and loyalty to the king's cause; Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, endorsed the petition and Davies became archdeacon. In 1661 he received his D.D. He was consecrated bishop of Llandaff 24 August 1667
DAVIES, HUGH (1739 - 1821), cleric and author of Welsh Botanology ). He explains in his preface that 'a constitutional nervous sensibility' having rendered him unequal to the duties of his profession, he retired to Beaumaris and devoted himself to the production of this book. (For the bishop of Bangor's licence, 1810, to absent himself from his rectory at Aber for two years, see NLW MS 6666D.) He had assisted Thomas Pennant with his Indian Zoology, published in 1790
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies, Taihirion; 1825 - 1904), Welsh Independent minister , Efail Isaf. Although John Davies was a prominent member of his denomination and one of the directors of the London Missionary Society, his influence was felt principally in his own region and he was known as Esgob y Fro (the bishop of the community). He was active in promoting education and mainly due to his efforts, a British school was set up at Llantwit Fardre and he was for many years a member of
DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1567 - 1644), one of the greatest of Welsh scholars . In one of his letters (NLW MS 14529E) he himself mentions the time when he dwelt in the neighbourhood of Llandaff; this was possibly between 1595 and 1601, when William Morgan (1541? - 1604) was bishop there. There was a close connection between him and bishop Morgan; in the preface to his grammar, 1621, he refers to himself as an unworthy assistant to the translators of the Bible into Welsh, viz

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