Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WALTER IDRIS (1900 - 1971), Director General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB) ). He played flanker for London-Welsh and Llanelli rugby clubs, and also for the Barbarians. He played for Wales against England, France, Ireland and Scotland (1924-25); he was captain on one occasion. He was a prominent active member of Welsh societies in London. Lord Elwyn-Jones was his brother. Idris Jones was unmarried and died 5 July 1971 at 9b The Cathedral Green, Llandaff, Cardiff.
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher collaboration with Elwyn Thomas, two novels. He was a frequent contributor to Welsh periodicals and was himself, from 1890, co-editor of one of them (Y Diwygiwr). A small volume of his memoirs was published posthumously. His prose is racy and unaffected, but he made no great effort to develop a literary style. He was a prominent popular lecturer and preacher (he had been ordained in 1894). He had endured poor
EDWARDS, HUMPHREY (1730 - 1788), physician and apothecary Son of Robert Edwards, rector of Llan-rug from 1725 to 1733. Robert Edwards had a small collection of Welsh manuscripts (NLW MSS., Panton 29, 81 et seq.); his daughter Margaret was the wife of Nicholas Owen, rector of Llandyfrydog, and mother of Nicholas Owen, rector of Mellteyrn from 1799 to 1811. Humphrey Edwards was interested in English literature and on 2 January 1782 was lent two volumes of
EDWARDS, WILLIAM (1773 - 1853), hymnwriter
EDWARDS, EVAN (1734 - 1766), harpist
EDWARDS, JOSEPH (1814 - 1882), sculptor Born 5 March 1814 at Ynys-gau, Merthyr Tydfil, son of James Edwards, a stone-cutter. He attended a school kept by J. B. Evans, pastor of Ynys-gau chapel, and later a school kept by George Williams, and evening classes held by David Williams at Georgetown. His love of drawing, painting, and carving, showed itself at an early age, and he had already executed a headstone in Merthyr churchyard, when
EDWARDS, DAVID (1858 - 1916), journalist and manager, 1901-2. Returning to Nottingham, he was editor and managing-director of the Express and Evening News from 1908 till his death, 22 February 1916. To the above summary of his career (taken from Who Was Who) it should be added that with R. A. Griffith and J. Owen Jones, he was one of the authors of the pseudonymous The Welsh Pulpit…by a Scribe, a Pharisee, and a Lawyer, 1894 - Edwards was
EDWARDS family Stansty, This family boasted continuous occupation of the same area from 1317, when David ap Meilir is said to have bought the manor of Stansty, to 1783, when his direct line died out. The surname was first stabilized by JOHN EDWARDS (1573 - 1635), son of David ab Edward; his executorship of the will under which his neighbour Sir William Meredith established a 'lectureship' at Wrexham suggests Puritan
EDWARDS, ROBERT (1796 - 1862), musician supplied by John Edwards, Bedford Street (Robert Edwards's successor) and others proved that the composer was Robert Edwards. He died in 1862 and was buried in Anfield cemetery, Liverpool.
EDWARDS, JOHN (1799 - 1873?), musician
EDWARDS, DOROTHY (1903 - 1934), novelist Born in 1903 at Ogmore Vale, Glamorganshire, daughter of Edward Edwards, schoolmaster. She was educated at Howell's School, Llandaff, and the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, where she graduated in Greek and Philosophy. Her chief enthusiasm was, however, for English literature. She was the author of Rhapsody, a collection of short stories, 1927, and Winter Sonata, 1928. Winter
EDWARDS, WILLIAM THOMAS (1821 - 1915), physician and prime mover in the establishment of the Cardiff Medical School William Edwards was born 6 December 1821 at Caerphilly, one of five children of Evan Edwards, a family doctor in Caerphilly, and his wife Caroline Morgan. William was the great-grandson of William Edwards, the celebrated pastor of the historic Groes-wen chapel, Caerphilly and architect, in 1756, of the bridge crossing the river Taff at Pontypridd which had, at that time, the longest single span

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