Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister conference to send Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) to Ruthin in August 1800.
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician . He famously succeeded in persuading the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Neath in 1968 to hear at first-hand complaints about the closure of two local coal mines. He was a PPS, 1964-70 (including serving as PPS to George Thomas when he was the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70, and thus in effect minister of state for Wales; he also served under Eirene White and Cledwyn Hughes), an
DAFYDD NANCONWY (fl. 17th century), writer of cywyddau died in 1637. His work is to be found in NLW MS 3050D, which was partly copied during the second half of the 17th century, and in NLW MS 695E. He was a contemporary of Harri Howel and Huw Machno.
DAFYDD, RICHARD WILLIAM (fl. 1740-1752), Methodist exhorter headed by John Richard of Llansamlet against the dispositions made by the Association in 1743, and both Whitefield and Howel Harris wrote remonstrating with him. In 1744 he was appointed visitor to the societies at Gorseinon and Pembrey. He is known to have been at Llandyfaelog in 1744 and Thomas William (1717 - 1765) met him there in 1747. We catch a last glimpse of him in 1752 when he was preaching
DAFYDD, THOMAS (fl. 1765-1792), elegist and hymnist official record of his recognition as exhorter; nor was he one of the men named Thomas David, whose letters are found in the Trevecka collection. His elegies contain useful information on Methodist personalities of his day. These elegies, and his hymns, are contained in some twenty booklets published between 1765 and 1792; these are described by Garfield H. Hughes in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools married Catrin, daughter of Rowland Hughes (1870 - 1928), an Independent minister, and they had five children. Possessing outstanding academic qualifications, Daniel was one of the most able theologians of his generation, combining wide knowledge, an unfailing memory and a superb analytical mind. He was strongly influenced by the teachings of Karl Barth and Rudolph Bultmann in the stirring days of their
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress to the stage and became part of a movement towards a National Welsh Drama. She appeared in a touring production of Little Miss Llewelyn, in The Joneses at the Strand Theatre and also in The Mark of Cain. In 1914 she toured to the USA with the Welsh Players, together with Gareth Hughes also from Llanelli, to perform J. O. Francis's prize-winning play Change. Eleanor's excellent notices throughout
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister Cwmllynfell. He is pretty certainly the John David who joined Henry Palmer and Rees Davies, in a letter (Trevecka letter 231) to Howel Harris, 22 March 1740. He died 22 July 1756, and was buried at Manordivy. There is an elegy (printed in the work mentioned below) upon him by Morris Griffiths. A record in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest speaks in very high terms of John David.
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, DANIEL (1797 - 1876), Baptist minister to Wales in 1817 and began to preach to Methodist congregations. In 1821, however, he was baptized in the river Taff by David Saunders II (1769 - 1840), of Merthyr Tydfil and the same year was established as minister of a (Welsh) Baptist congregation in London. Towards the end of 1826 he was appointed to succeed Joseph Harris (Gomer) at Swansea, and there he laboured until 1855. From 1855 to 1860
DAVIES, DAVID JOHN (1870 - ?), artist Born at Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, 16 March 1870, son of a tanner. He obtained free tuition at Kidderminster Art School and was assisted by a public subscription at Llandilo to study at Antwerp for two years. He opened a studio at Llanelly for four years and was patronized by D. Pugh, M.P., lord Dynevor, lord Emlyn, Mansel Lewis, and Mrs. Gwynne Hughes, Tregŷb, Llandilo. His early works are
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS (1876 - 1962), dramatist and the new generation of Welsh dramatists like Robert Griffith Berry, J.O. Francis and William John Gruffydd. He wrote a number of full-length plays and many short plays : among his most important works are Ble ma fa? (1913), Ephraim Harris (1914), Y Pwyllgor (1920), Castell Martin (1920) and Pelenni Pitar (1925). He broke fresh ground with these plays by presenting a faithful portrayal and an

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