Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DIVERRES, POL (1880 - 1946), linguist, Celtic scholar, and sometime Keeper of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales to the National Library. His most important publications were Le plus ançien texte de Meddygon Myddveu … (Paris, 1913) and Le Siège de Lorient par les Anglais en 1746 … (Rennes, 1931); articles in Revue Celtique and Les Annales de Bretagne. Diverres married, in 1913, Elizabeth Jones ('Telynores Gwalia'), daughter of Hugh Jones ('Trisant'), Liverpool; they had one son. Diverres died 25 December 1946
DYER, JOHN (1699 - 1757), poet acquaintance of Aaron Hill and his circle, which included James Thomson and Richard Savage. In A New Miscellany, which is presumed to have been published in that year, 1726, there appeared Dyer's 'Grongar Hill' in octosyllabics; also in 1726 it came out in a pindaric version in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, ed. Savage; and finally, in Miscellaneous Poems, ed. D. Lewis, yet another version in
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge represented D. J. Williams in the Penyberth case in Caernarfon, insisting on the right of the three defendants to be tried before a jury of Welsh-speakers. In 1973 he was commissioned by the Lord Chancellor to report on the use of the Welsh language in courts in Wales, and recommended the introduction of simultaneous translation facilities. He regularly attended the National Eisteddfod and was a member of
EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837 - 1884), dean of Bangor by his own hand, at Ruabon. A selection of his addresses was published in 1889 under the title Wales and the Welsh Church, with a memoir by David Jones which has been the main source of the present notice. Edwards was twice married: first in 1867 to Mary, daughter of D. Davis of Aberdare (for whom see Davis family of Hirwaun, Aberdare, and Ferndale) - she died in August 1871; and second in 1873 to
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician mines and slate quarries of north Wales where he set up branches of the T.G.W.U. and the Labour Party. He was elected a member of Penmaen-mawr Rural District Council which he served as chairman. In the general election of 1929 he acted as agent to Thomas ap Rhys who opposed D. Lloyd George as Labour candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs. While Edwards was unemployed in 1932 he was appointed a full
EDWARDS, JOHN HUGH (1869 - 1945), politician and writer to 1914 he edited Wales: A national magazine. He wrote much for the periodical press, particularly for the British Weekly. His published works are: From Village Green to Downing Street, Life of D. Lloyd George (London, 1908) - in collaboration with Spencer Leigh Hughes; Life of David Lloyd George, with a short history of the Welsh People, 4 vols. (London 1913-19); David Lloyd George, the man and
EDWARDS, WILLIAM ROBERT (Glanllafar; 1858 - 1921), Congregational minister, poet, and littérateur Born 19 September 1858 at Tŷ Coch, Parc, Bala, son of Edward Jones Edwards and Annie his wife. He was educated in the local schools and at the Independent College, Bala, under Michael D. Jones. The family were Methodists, but he became a member of Hen Gapel Llanuwchllyn (Congregational) in 1876, and about the same time began to preach. After his ordination at Sardis, Llanwddyn, Montgomeryshire
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) Son of Thomas Ellis and Elizabeth his wife. He was born at Cynlas, Cefnddwysarn, near Bala, 16 February 1859. He was educated at the British School, Llandderfel, and at the grammar school, Bala, where his contemporaries included D. R. Daniel, O. M. Edwards, and J. Puleston Jones. In January 1875 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he remained till 1879. In October 1880
EMERY, FRANK VIVIAN (1930 - 1987), historical geographer ', National Library of Wales Journal 10:395-402 1958f 'A map of Edward Lhuyd's Parochial Queries (1696) In Order to a Geographical Dictionary &c., of Wales', Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1958: 41-53 1959 'A “geographical description” of Scotland prior to the Statistical Accounts', Scot. Stud. 3: 1-16 1962 'Moated settlements in England', Geography 47: 378-88 1964 (With Scargill, D
EVANS, DANIEL (1774 - 1835), Congregational minister , E. Griffiths, 1830), Cawell y Bara Croyw (Swansea, E. Griffiths, 1833), Ychydig Ddaioni o Nazareth (Caerfyrddin, D. Harris, 1834), and Y cysgod a'r Sylwedd, 1851. A biography of Daniel Evans was published by Hugh Jones, Tredegar, 1835.
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar D. Simon Evans was born in Broderi, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire, 29 May 1921, the eldest child of David Evans and his wife Sarah Jane (née Lewis); he had a sister and a younger brother, Prof. D. Ellis Evans. David Evans's family had for generations played a prominent part in the life of the community in Llanfynydd and in particular in the Methodist chapel, Banc y Spite, and Simon Evans always had
EVANS, DAVID (1744 - 1821), Baptist minister EVANS and David D. Evans, Pont-rhyd-yr-ynn (1787 - 1858), became ministers. He died 24 October 1821.

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