Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa furnaces, forges, and mills, and became one of the chief promoters of the Glamorgan Canal which was opened from Merthyr to Cardiff in 1794. He took advantage of the boom in the iron trade and of the need for cannon caused by the Napoleonic wars and the dearness of iron from Sweden and Russia. He was much helped by his two young nephews, Joseph and Crawshay Bailey, the sons of his sister Susanna, but was
CYFEILIOG (d. 927), bishop of Llandaff . Of these, five appear to be of lands in Gwent or its border, at Monmouth, Roggiet, Pool Meyrick, Bishton, and Caldicot, and are the gift of Brochwel ap Meurig, king of Gwent in the age of Asser; another donor is Hywel ap Rhys, king of Glewysing (now Glamorgan) at the same period, while the third is Hywel's son Arthfael.
CYNGAR (fl. 6th century), saint Two ' Vitae S. Cungari ' are known to modern biographers. The oldest, recently discovered in fragmentary form at Wells, Somerset, was composed probably in the 12th century; the second is a fuller but later version added to the 1516 printed edition of John of Teignmouth's 'Vitae SS.' They relate that, after founding Congresbury in Som., S. Cungar crossed to Glamorgan and landed on the banks of the
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet name, Dafydd Llwyd fab Gwilym Gam. Dafydd visited patrons in Gwynedd as well, as shown by his poems to the Dean of Bangor and in praise of the town of Newborough in Anglesey. One of his comic poems is located in Newborough too, and another tells how he was transfixed by the sight of a beautiful girl in Bangor Cathedral. But his most famous patron was a nobleman from Glamorgan, Ifor ap Llywelyn of
DAFYDD BENFRAS (fl. 1230-1260), poet 1256, Dafydd sang his praise, and some of the prince's early victories, such as his expedition to Ceredigion in 1256 and to Dyfed and Glamorgan in 1257 were celebrated in Dafydd's poems. The poet indeed claims to be Llywelyn's pencerdd. There is one poem by him to Gruffydd ab Ednyfed (Fychan?). His elegy was sung by Bleddyn Fardd, who states that he was killed in Deheubarth and buried at Llangadock
DAFYDD BENWYN (fl. second half of the 16th century), bards of Glamorgan most prolific of the bards of Glamorgan; he sang the praises of most of the landed families of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Although he was the bardic disciple of Rhisiart Iorwerth (and, possibly, of Lewis Morgannwg also) and inherited the lore of the older chief bards (penceirddiaid), his poems are commonplace and stereotyped. No better way can be found of illustrating the deterioration in Glamorgan
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard His birth may be assigned to c. 1600 -there is a cywydd which he wrote in 1623. Iolo Morganwg said that his bardic teacher was Llywelyn Siôn, of the neighbouring parish of Laleston. He was the most prominent of the Glamorgan bards of the 17th century; in all probability he can be regarded as the last of them who was a professional bard. He sang awdlau and cywyddau to the landed gentry of
DAFYDD, MEURIG (fl. second half of the 16th century), professional bard, staunch Papist, and one of the most important literary characters in Glamorgan Born at Llanishen near Cardiff. He married Joan Mathau, granddaughter of Sir Cristor (Christopher) Mathau (Mathew), of Llandaff. He was for forty years the family bard of the Lewises of Van, Caerphilly (see the article on them), but periodically went out on tour, visiting the houses of the gentry in Glamorgan, Gwent, and south Brecknock. Like the other bards of his generation, he was a
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner of his stand as a conscientious objector during the Second World War, Cardiff Education Committee dismissed him from his teaching post. Following a period as a clerk, Glamorgan Education Committee appointed him to teach at Cogan School, Penarth. In 1952 he became headteacher of Gwaelod y Garth School. Gwyn Daniel died following a heart attack in Bangor on 31 October 1960 while visiting UCAC
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools until January 1946 when he was appointed a Ministry of Education inspector of schools with special responsibility for religious education and the classics. During this time, he lived first of all at Wick, Glamorgan and subsequently at Tŷ Gwyn, Botffari, Flint. He was killed in a road accident near Halkyn in Flintshire on 11 February 1962 and his remains were interred in the New Cemetery at Bangor. He
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian , firstly a captain then a major. He managed to tramp all through the forests of Burma, taking part in the reconquest of Burma, and was demobilized from the army in 1946. He then returned to Aberystwyth where he was appointed history lecturer. There in 1948 he met his future wife Margaret Gulwell from Kenfig Hill, Glamorgan, and the two were married 25 July 1951 at Ebenezer Chapel, Cardiff, and they lived
DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council Alun Herbert Davies was born on 31 May 1927 in Llansamlet, Glamorgan (he adopted the name Creunant later), the only son of the Reverend Thomas Herbert (Creunant) Davies and Hannah Davies (née Thomas). The family moved to Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire in 1936 and Alun received his secondary education in Llandovery. Following the untimely death of his father, he continued his education at Trinity

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