Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN (1938 - 2015), historian John Davies was born on 25 April 1938 in Llwynypia Hospital, Glamorganshire, the son of Daniel Davies (d. 1950), carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Potter), a teacher, of Dumfries Street, Treorchy. His grandfather William Davies died in the Maerdy Pit Explosion of 1885 and his family relationship to the Rhondda Valleys and its coal industry was absolutely essential to his view of Wales and the
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, co-heirs, LETITIA and MARY. The former, who obtained Llannerch estate as her share of her brother's property, married Daniel Leo, of Bath, and, dying without issue on 11 December 1801, aged 67 years, devised her possessions to her cousin, Anne Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Peter Davies, and wife of the Rev. George Allanson. Mary, who succeeded to Gwysaney, married Philip Puleston, of Hafod-y
REES, MERLYN (1920 - 2006), politician Merlyn Rees was born on 18 December 1920 at William Street, Cilfynydd near Pontypridd, Glamorgan, the only child of Levi Daniel Rees, a coal miner, and his wife Edith Mary (née Williams). At least three generations of the Rees family had worked underground in the coal pits of south. The family were committed Baptists, and an early memory was attending the local Baptist Sunday school. Levi Rees
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, Law Seventh son of John Wynn Thelwall, entered Balliol College, Oxford, 16 October 1581, aged 20, and graduated B.A. [from S. Mary Hall ] on 28 February 1584. He was a student of Lincoln's Inn in 1591, and became chief clerk to Sir Daniel Dunne, judge of the prerogative court; a proctor of the court of arches, and registrar of Bangor. He sat as Member of Parliament for Denbigh from February to April
GOUGH, JETHRO (1903 - 1979), Professor of pathology of this School was characterised by such originality and promise as to stamp him a man of outstanding merit and one who will go far; thus confirming the indications given by his brilliant undergraduate career'. In 1930 he became the third person (after Daniel T. Davies and J. W. Tudor Thomas) to obtain the MD of the University of Wales, for his thesis on 'Mitochondria', and three years later his
JONES family, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, 'Daniel Owen'. He was also an university external lecturer in the Rhondda and in Cardiganshire. He was noted at university as a writer of englynion and cywyddau as well as a lively and amusing companion; he was an original, powerful and bold preacher. He won the chair at the Gwent eisteddfod in 1913 for an ode on 'Llywelyn ein llyw olaf'; he served as an adjudicator at the national eisteddfod. He
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher . She played her first screen part in a programme on Daniel Owen, with Wilbert Lloyd Roberts (1925-1996) producing, a part she would play again seven years later in a Welsh Theatre Company production. Over the next decade, she appeared in productions such as Byd a Betws and Gwyliwr. She received widespread recognition for her performances of Saunders Lewis's work, Dwy Briodas Ann late in 1973, and
LLOYD GEORGE family Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st bart. They had one son, Owen, 3rd Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor (born 1925) and one died Valerie, Lady Goronwy Daniel. The marriage was annulled, 1933. He married (2), 1935, Winifred Calve. He died 1 May 1968, after a long illness. He published, in 1947, Dame Margaret - the life story of my mother, a warm-hearted tribute to the memory of his mother, and in 1960, Lloyd George
LLOYD family Dolobran, been published: An epistle to my Dear and well beloved Friends of Dolobran, 1788, and A Letter to John Eccles and Wife, 1805. David Lloyd (born at Manafon about 1656; died at Chester, Pennsylvania, 1731), chief justice of Pennsylvania, was a relative, but the exact degree is not known. A David Lloyd revised A Salutation to the Britains, Philadelphia, 1727, a translation by Rowland Ellis of Ellis
LEWIS, TIMOTHY (1877 - 1958), Welsh and Celtic scholar to the coalfield and he found work in a pit in Cwmaman, Aberdare. The family moved there a few years later and became members of Moriah Aman chapel (Congl.). The family was gifted: one son, Edward, became a school teacher in Cwmaman, an organist and conductor of the local ' Côr Mawr ' [ Cwmaman United Choir ]; Daniel, another son, graduated at University College, Cardiff, and became minister of
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author married Barbara Helen Howden (1933-2008), then a probation officer, in London on 8 June 1957, and settled in Cardiff, where he taught English in a secondary school for the next ten years. In the late-1960s, the family relocated to Swansea. Together, Alun and Helen Richards had three sons - Stephen (1958-), Michael (1960-), Daniel (1966-) - and a daughter, Jessica (1961-). Alun Richards's literary break
ROBESON, PAUL LEROY (1898 - 1976), actor, singer and political activist of radio concerts for listeners in Wales. In October 1957 he used the transatlantic telephone cable from New York to address an audience of over 2,000 at the Miners' Eisteddfod in Porthcawl's Grand Pavilion, singing the spiritual 'Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel?' and other songs to which the Treorchy Male Voice Choir responded with a rendition of 'Y Delyn Aur'. In 1958, Robeson had his passport

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