Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa to his nephew Joseph Bailey. He died 27 June 1810, and was buried at Llandaff. WILLIAM CRAWSHAY I (1764 - 1834), Business and Industry Richard's only son, did not take any interest in the actual manufacture of iron, but took charge of the selling agency at the George Yard, Upper Thames Street, London, leaving his son, William Crawshay II (infra) to manage the works at Cyfarthfa and Hirwaun. His is
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (d. 1528?), cleric and bard Born in the parish of Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, according to a statement by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cwrtmawr MS 561C. In one of his poems, 'Cywydd i ofyn geifr,' he speaks of Morgan ap Hywel, Llanddeiniolen, as his uncle. A summarized account by Irene George (Lloyd-Williams) giving particulars about the bard's history and his poems appears in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian
DAGGAR, GEORGE (1879 - 1950), trade unionist and Member of Parliament
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress the London Victoria College of Music and Drama in 1910, she attended Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy of Drama in 1912, winning the gold medal for elocution. The same year she had the honour of reciting at the Carmarthenshire Dinner held at the Criterion in London in honour of the Right Honourable Lloyd George, for which she was highly commended. In 1913 she was tempted to transfer her allegiance
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman George twice defeated him. At the 1966 general election he came second at Denbigh to Geraint Morgan, the sitting Conservative MP. He chaired the Welsh Liberals 1963-1966. Alun Talfan Davies was strongly in favour of devolution, and a motion proposed by him supporting Welsh devolution was passed at the 1958 Liberal conference in Torquay. From 1969 to 1973 he sat on the Royal Commission on the
DAVIES, Sir ALFRED THOMAS (1861 - 1949), the first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education of the Denbighshire County Council and its Education Committee. After his retirement from the Board, though he lived in England, he continued to interest himself in Welsh matters, founding the Ceiriog Memorial Institute at Glyn Ceiriog, and publishing (in addition to numerous pamphlets) two biographical volumes: O.M. (a memoir of Sir Owen M. Edwards; 1946) and The Lloyd George I knew (1948). He was
DAVIES, Sir DANIEL THOMAS (1899 - 1966), physician serum in the treatment of pneumonia. His article on ' Gastric secretions of old age ' which he published in conjunction with Lloyd James is considered a classic. He published several medical books, including a standard work on pneumonia and books on peptic ulcers and anaemia. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society. In 1938 he became physician to the royal family. He was physician to King George
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) of age as Liberal member for Montgomeryshire, resigning his seat in 1929. In World War I, he raised and commanded the 14th Battalion, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at home and in France until 1916, when he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. His name will be inseparably connected with his two main public interests-the Welsh campaign against tuberculosis and the international
DAVIES, EDWARD (1796 - 1857), Independent minister and college tutor Born 13 March 1796 at Ashton, Salop, but brought up at Wrexham and educated at a grammar school at Chester; he was a protégé of William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840), at whose suggestion he began preaching. Entering Llanfyllin Academy, then under George Lewis (1763 - 1822), in 1817, he was appointed student-assistant in 1818 and classical tutor in 1819; he married Lewis's daughter Sara. In 1821
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (1878 - 1969), musician Born 10 April 1878 at 41 Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, son of George (a barber whose shop was in South Street, Dowlais), and Gwenllian (née Samuel) his wife. He was brought up in Dowlais, but moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1904. His parents were musical; his father was precentor in Hermon, Dowlais, for nearly a quarter of a century, and his mother was a good singer, a descendant of the
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD (1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace in the cause of peace -in arbitrating between David Lloyd George and Eamonn de Valera, for example. He was not returned in the following election and in 1926 he was ordained a minister in the Pres. Church of Wales. He was pastor of the churches at Tywyn and Maethlon from 1926 to 1930. He then responded to the appeal for help from the distressed areas of south Wales and spent the following years

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