Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, DAVID (1774 - 1853) Felinfoel, minister Born at Bryn Bach, Felinfoel, 11th December 1774. He was baptised by Daniel Davies, Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, 14 May 1797 and he started to preach in 1798. He was ordained by Titus Lewis and Joshua Watkins, Carmarthen, on 25 August 1806 to be joint-minister with Daniel Davies and he lived at Pantlludw. In 1831 Seion, Llanelli was formed as a church and Bowen was selected by the congregation to
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, VAUGHAN, who obtained a lease of the demesne lands of Dinas, 14 February 1529. He was the squire of Porthaml when Leland visited the place, and in 1536 he welcomed bishop Rowland Lee so royally that the latter commended him in his correspondence with his master, Thomas Cromwell. Vaughan, said the bishop in 1538, was a man to be cherished. On 17 December of that year he was appointed chancellor and
HARRIES, JOHN (1722 - 1788) Ambleston, early Methodist exhorter parish. On the death of Howel Davies (1770), Harries (who was a well-to-do farmer) superintended the whole Methodist work in the county until the arrival of Nathaniel Rowland; according to William Gambold, 'he was one of the strictest and most approved of men, universally beloved'; and Rowland Hill thought very highly of him. He strove hard to stem the Moravian tide in Pembrokeshire: we find him in
JONES, THOMAS (d. 1676), cleric He was appointed vicar of Llangamarch, Brecknock, 24 January 1661, and his successor was appointed (after his death) on 17 August 1676. There is extant a written by him to praise God for the health of Rowland Gwynne of Glan-brân, and two englynion to his brother, Dafydd Jones of Maes Mynys (near Builth).
HEYLIN, ROWLAND (1562? - 1631), publisher of Welsh books he was descended from the ancient Powys family of Heylin of Pentreheylin (on the Vyrnwy), who had held the estate since the middle ages, claiming descent, through Rhys Sais (died 1070), from Tudur Trevor, and the hereditary office of heilyn (cupbearer) to the princes of Powys. One of his ancestors (Grono ab Heilyn) was envoy from Llywelyn ap Gruffydd (1254 - 1282) to Edward I in 1277. Rowland
PUGH family Mathafarn, magistrate between 1553 and 1566. His wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Montgomery. Their son, ROWLAND PUGH, served as a magistrate, and in 1572, and in 1588-9, represented the borough of Montgomery in Parliament. In 1576 he was commissioner of taxes for the county. His grandson, also ROWLAND PUGH, was a barrister and was entered a member of the Inner Temple in 1598. He held the office
DANIEL, JOHN (1755? - 1823), printer The son of a south Carmarthenshire farmer. After he had served his seven years apprenticeship with John Ross at Carmarthen, Daniel went to London where he worked for the king's printers and where, also, he married. Returning to Carmarthen, he set up a business in 1784 in that town, in King Street at first. His output was large, and he came to be regarded as one of the best Welsh printers of his
JONES, DANIEL (1908 - 1985), Labour politician He was born Danos Jones at Porth in the Rhondda valley on 26 September 1908, the son of Daniel Jones, a coalminer (One source claims he was born at Ystradgynlais). He received his education at Ynyshir elementary school, and the National Council of Labour Colleges. He worked as a miner, 1920-32, was unemployed, 1932-36, and then found employment as an aircraft industry engineer from 1936. He was
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity ' Daniel Williams ' who took out a Presbyterian licence in Wrexham in 1672 under the Indulgence of Charles II; for one thing he was in Ireland at that time, and for another Philip Henry does not mention it. It is, of course, possible that Williams took out the licence when he was visiting the town. His biography is given in some detail by Alexander Gordon in the D.N.B., so that in this volume a brief
WATKYNS, ROWLAND (c.1614 - 1664), cleric and author
ROWLAND(S), DAVID (Dewi Brefi; 1782 - 1820), cleric
ROWLAND(S), WILLIAM (1887 - 1979), schoolmaster and author district. He lost his mother in May 1889 before attaining his second birthday. He was educated initially at Rhiw board school (1891-1901) and at the old school Botwnnog (1901-05) founded according to the will of Bishop Henry Rowland in 1616. He spent the two years (1905-07) as an uncertificated teacher at nearby Llaniestyn before entering the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in October 1907. He

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