Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES family Llwyn-rhys, ) married Peter Davies of Caerllugest and Glyn (died 30 August 1766, aged 41, at Cefn-y-bedd, Brecknock, on his way home from the harvest in Herefordshire). It was he who gave land for building a chapel for the use of Daniel Rowland, who was married to his sister Eleanor. Mary married, at Llangeitho, 19 June 1740, her cousin Timothy Davis (above), one of the pastors of the Cilgwyn flock, and Sarah married
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume financially supported Daniel Silvan Evans when he was preparing his multi-volume dictionary. Combining ardent Protestantism with a love of Welsh, she endowed two Calvinist Methodist churches, Capel Rhyd-y-meirch and Aber-carn, where services were to be conducted in Welsh, but with a liturgy based upon the Book of Common Prayer. Her belief in temperance led her to convert inns and pubs in the area into
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author extensively from 1940 onwards, producing many notable books, including a comprehensive biography of his hero Aneurin Bevan published in two volumes in 1962 and 1973, and authoritive works on William Hazlitt, Thomas Paine, Lord Byron, Daniel Defoe and Jonathan Swift. He was a man of high principles who dedicated his life to socialism, democracy, devolution for Wales and Scotland, human rights and freedom for
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Liverpool and her childhood in Daniel Rowland's village, in the sound of villagers' recollections of the Revival led by Dafydd Morgan Ysbyty Ystwyth (1859), Sara experienced a Christian religious conversion as a young girl. Following her marriage in 1887 to John Maurice Saunders (1863-1919), a member of another well-known Methodist family who lived in Liverpool (son of Dr D. D. Saunders), Sara dedicated
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party by Daniel Hughes, Dewi Emrys and Wil Ifan as The Prison Sonnets of T. E. Nicholas (London, 1948) Nicholas achieved a great deal, especially as 'the people's poet'. His was a lonely, prophetic voice, inspired by the Bible and the writings of Communist philosophers from Karl Marx to R. Palme Dutt. His volumes of poetry await their literary critic. They include Salmau'r Werin (Ystalyfera, 1909), first
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal Known to his family and friends as Tommy, T. B. Phillips was the first of seven children born to Daniel and Mary Catherine Phillips at 239 Bridgend Road, Maesteg on 11 April 1898. He was baptised in Libanus Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Garth, Maesteg by the Reverend H. W. Thomas. Nurtured in the chapel environment of that community for the first five years of his life, he began his schooling at
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer across the road from the Evening Post offices in Castle Street. Others were the poet Charles Fisher, the musician and teacher Tom Warner, the broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, the composer Daniel Jones and, later, the poet Vernon Watkins. Up to 1938, London alternated with Swansea as Thomas's main base. Cosmopolitan artistic life in London was celebrating Surrealism and Picasso in art, 'Modernist
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator 1948: Margaret Jane ('Jenny'), Rees's biographer (1942), Lucy (1943), the twins Thomas and Daniel (1948); to be followed by Matthew (1954-2016). The students took to the new principal, to his 'versatility of achievement and cosmopolitan range' - something he quickly demonstrated in Conversations with Kafka (his translation of Gustav Janouch, 1953) and The Answers of Ernst von Salomon (1954), with its
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist conversion. Lewis continued to publish as late as 1980, despite suffering a stroke the previous year. In 1983, at the age of 89, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Wales, which had dismissed him from his post almost half a century earlier. He died after a long illness at St Winifred's Hospital, Cardiff, on 1 September 1985. In his address at the funeral Bishop Daniel
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, - is described in the family History. He married, 1703, lady Essex Finch, daughter of Daniel, earl of Winchilsea, by whom he had six sons and six daughters. Among the sons were Thomas Mostyn, the heir, John Mostyn, who became a general in the British army, and Savage Mostyn, who became Vice-Admiral of the Blue and Comptroller of the Navy and one of the Lords of the Admiralty : for the careers of the
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian Glanmor Williams was born on 5 May 1920 at 3 Cross Francis St, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the only child of Daniel Williams (died 1957) and his wife Ceinwen (née Evans) who died in 1970. The paternal family's roots were in Breconshire, the maternal in Rhandir-mwyn, Carmarthenshire. The family were Welsh-speaking Baptists and members of Moriah chapel, Dowlais. His father was first a
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier grandees of the time, including not just James Callaghan, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and M.P. for the area in which Hodge's premises were located, and George Thomas a former Secretary of State for Wales in the neighbouring seat, but Sir Goronwy Daniel, Principal of University College Aberystwyth and a former Permanent Secretary, Sir Cennydd Traherne, KG, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Lord

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