Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations , Carmarthen. Myriel was educated at Whitland Grammar School and from there went to work as a telephonist with the Post Office in Carmarthen, Tenby and Cardiff. She was appointed chief telephonist at Shrewsbury; there she met the journalist and socialist, Max Davies (d. 1986). Moving to London, they married in 1952. As regulations at the time demanded, her marriage meant that she had to leave her job in the
DAVIES, REUBEN (Reuben Brydydd y Coed; 1808 - 1833), poet and schoolmaster schoolmaster at Cribin and, during the later years of his life, at Cilmaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire; he translated into Welsh the works of many Greek and Latin authors, particularly those of Ovid. An original manuscript of his works was in the possession of Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, and the Rev. D. Evans of Cribin had a copy. He wrote over fifty hymns, and Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu, 1792 - 1846) thought
DAVIES, THOMAS (1820 - 1873), Independent minister established a day school in the chapel building. He was a frequent contributor to Y Diwygiwr, Y Beirniad, and other periodicals, and was the author of Hanes Cenedl y Cymry; Cofiant y Parch. T. Jenkins, Penygroes; Bywyd ac Ysgrifeniadau D. Rees, Llanelli; Catecism Cenhadol. He died 28 October 1873.
DAVIES, THOMAS (TEGWYN; 1851 - 1924), tailor, book-collector and writer Born 11 November 1851, at Ty Gwyn, Abercywarch; his parents were Hugh and Elizabeth Davies. His wife, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair, and his son John Breese Davies was a specialist in cerdd dant. He was a tailor by trade, and among the houses at which (according to the old-time practice) he worked was the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy in the days of D. Silvan Evans, who
DAVIES, TIMOTHY (1802 - 1862), cleric Born 1802, son of D. Davies, curate of Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire; educated at the Carmarthen grammar school under Hancock and D. A. Williams, afterwards chancellor of S. Davids cathedral. In 1825 he was ordained to the curacy of Ystradgynlais; in 1826 he became perpetual curate of Capel Coelbren, in 1836 rector of Ystradgynlais and vicar of Devynnock, Brecknock. In 1840 he married Sarah
DAVIES, WILLIAM DANIEL (1838 - 1900), lecturer and author Drych; he also attained much popularity as a public lecturer. He died 22 March 1900 at Wrexham when he was over in Wales on a lecture tour. He published several works, including Llwybrau Bywyd neu Haner Can Mlynedd o Oes Wm. D. Davies (Utica, 1889), Cartref Dedwydd ac Ysgol y Teulu, and America a Gweledigaethau Bywyd, 1894.
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar W. D. Davies was born in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire on December 9 1911, the son of David Davies, a miner, and Rachel Powell, his wife. Educated in Glanamman Primary School and Amman Valley Grammar School, Ammanford, he graduated with honours in classical Greek and Semitic Languages in the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, Cardiff, in 1934, completing his BD, with distinction in the
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr Llanrwst. He was accountant at the Caernarvon branch, 1875-8, and was secretary of the national eisteddfod held there in 1877. He was partly responsible for building the Caernarvon Pavilion. He wrote a history of the old Caernarvon eisteddfodau from 1821 to 1880 (see Cofnodion 1886). He was joint secretary with Sir Vincent Evans of the London eisteddfod, 1887, and again with D. R. Hughes in 1909. He
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, manuscripts, many of which are now deposited in the N.L.W. Among them is the famous ' Book of Llan Dav,' which is fully described by E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123 et seq. Part of the collection was briefly described by John Cordy Jeaffreson in the Appendix (pp. 418-26) to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part i, 1877-8, and in the Annual Report of the N.L.W. for 1946
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster when D. Lewis Jones was appointed (1814) tutor at Carmarthen, and for a time he and John James of Gelli-onnen (1779 - 1864) seriously considered starting a specifically Unitarian college at Neath, but the project came to nothing. He died 4 December 1846 and was buried in the cemetery of Lammas Street chapel, Carmarthen. TIMOTHY DAVIS (1779 - 1860), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Religion
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer Born 13 July 1527, in London; son of Rowland Dee, a gentleman server to Henry VIII. He was a grandson of Bedo Ddu of Nant-y-groes, Pilleth, Radnorshire and he retained his connection with the locality. The Dees hailed from Radnorshire (see J. D. Rhys, Cambrobrytannicae Cymraecaeve Linguae Institutiones, 60); Dee himself constructed a pedigree purporting to show his descent from Rhodri Mawr
DEVEREUX family Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, earl, was born in Herefordshire but at 15 went to live at Lamphey, then in the occupation of his uncle Sir George (above), from whose household he took Rhys Prichard, as his chaplain and Gelly Meyrick (see Meyrick family) as his steward, factotum, and 'in Wales …almost a viceroy ' (D. Mathew, The Celtic Peoples, 1933, 341). In 1594 he sealed the Pembrokeshire Bond of Association for the defence of

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