Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN DANIEL (1874 - 1948), editor and author Born 12 January 1874, at Gwynfryn, Aberderfyn, Ponciau, Denbighshire, one of the seven children of Daniel Davies and his wife. Having completed his schooling he was apprenticed to David Jones, printer, at Rhosymedre, and afterwards to Richard Mills, printer of the Rhos Herald. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of William Humphreys ('Elihu'), of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 April 1900. He settled in
PHILLIPS, DANIEL (1826 - 1905), minister (Congl.) and lecturer
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1878 - 1968), minister (Meth.) and author contribution to the religious life in Wales, Daniel Williams was well known as a writer and a historian of standing. He published five children's books, Cario'r post a storïau eraill (1932), Dyrnaid o yd (1924), Llwyn y brain (1930), Pant y gloch (1932), and Plant y pentre (1925); he regularly contributed to antiquarian journals. He was a keen eisteddfod supporter and in 1927 won a chair for a poem at the
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL (1787 - 1857), geologist and divine
HOOSON, ISAAC DANIEL (1880 - 1948), solicitor and poet
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate
DAVIES, WILLIAM DANIEL (1838 - 1900), lecturer and author
MORGAN, DAVID (1779 - 1858), Independent minister and historian Gartside chapel, Manchester, and in 1839 to Llanfyllin, where he remained until his retirement in 1857. He died at Oswestry 14 July 1858, and was buried in the Pendref chapel burial ground at Llanfyllin. His daughter, Ann, married Thomas Bynner, Llanfyllin, draper, and they had a son, David Morgan Bynner who married Catherine Jones, daughter of Owen Daniel, Caethle, Tywyn in 1877 (see article on John
JOHN, WALTER PHILLIPS (1910 - 1967), minister (B) Born 31 January 1910 at Gilfach, Bargoed, Glamorganshire, the second of five children of the Rev. Daniel Robert John (d. 1948) and his wife, Susannah Mary (née Rees), both from Penygroes near Ammanford. The father was minister at Bargoed, Porth (Rhondda), Abercynon and the historic church at Rhydwilym. Walter P. John was educated at Mountain Ash Grammar School and the Baptist College and
LEWIS, MORGAN JOHN (c. 1711 - 1771), Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer Born c. 1711, a native of Cwm Ebwy-fawr, Aberystruth, Monmouthshire. He was converted under the ministry of Howel Harris, c. 1738, and is said to have seceded from the communion of the Church of England when Daniel Rowland was forbidden to preach in Aberystruth church. He began to write hymns, and comes to our notice as one of the early hymn-writers of the Methodist revival. A hymn written by
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric Gyfylchi, where he ministered for the rest of his life. He preached and travelled extensively in Wales, and so great was the emotional uplift of his sermons that when Howel Davies died it was he who was deemed fit to preside over the Pembrokeshire societies. He was also a hymnwriter, and some of his hymns were published in David William's Myfyrdod Pererin (Carmarthen, I. Daniel, n.d.); while two are
BEYNON, THOMAS (1744 - 1835), archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of eisteddfodau and Welsh literature Cymreigyddion Society of Carmarthen for many years and was an influential member of the Carmarthen eisteddfod committee in 1819. He delighted in the Welsh language and literature, and many bards and writers dedicated books to him, more especially Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion). There are strong reasons for believing that the Vaughan family of Golden Grove were his patrons. He lived at Llandilo from

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