Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop A native of Glasgoed in Meifod, Montgomeryshire, he was the son of Owen ap Deio ap Llewelyn ab Einion ap Celynin. He studied canon and civil law at Oxford, and he is said to have taken his doctorate in law. His legal knowledge seems to have been put into practice in the service of John, earl of Worcester, chief justice of North Wales, between 1461 and 1467. He was thus a supporter of the house of
DAVIES, EDWARD (1827 - 1905), Independent minister in the U.S.A., and author . Llewelyn D. Howell, Utica (Utica, 1866), Grawnwin Aeddfed … yn cynwys Pregethau gan Amryw o Weinidogion yr Annibynwyr yn Nghymru (Utica, 1867), and Cofiant … Morris Roberts (Utica, 1879). He died 8 December 1905.
DAVIES, JOHN (1795 - 1861), cleric and philosopher , 2nd ed., 1847. Two of his children deserve mention: JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Preacher at Oxford, chaplain to Queen Victoria, an advocate of higher education of women, and an associate of Frederick Denison Maurice; he was joint author (with D. J. Vaughan) of a well-known translation of The Republic of Plato; and
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), translator, chaplain, and one of the most successful of the early climbers of the Alps
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - see DAVIES, JOHN
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian who was never satisfied with work of an inferior standard. His manifold services were duly recognised by the conferment upon him of a knighthood in 1944 and of the degree of LL.D., honoris causa, by the University of Wales in 1951. In the year of his death he was High Sheriff of Merioneth. Davies married in 1914 Gwen, daughter of Dewi Llewelyn, grocer and baker, Pontypridd, and afterwards adopted
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar of the Divinity tripos in 1940 followed by an M.A. in 1942. He was ordained minister in Fowlmere Chapel, Cambridgeshire in 1941, and continued as part-time tutor in his college. He married Eurwen Llewelyn, also a miner's daughter from Glanamman, in 1941. They remained in Cambridge until 1946 when he was appointed tutor in New Testament at Yorkshire United College, Bradford, a training college for
DILLWYN family which he was mayor in 1839), he was one of the founders of the Royal Institution of South Wales; and he published in 1840 a small book on the history of the town. He died 31 August 1855. He had married (1807) Mary, daughter of John Llewelyn, of Pen-lle'r-gaer, Llangyfelach; the family of LLEWELYN, originally of Ynys-gerwn (Neath), had succeeded to the Pen-lle'r-gaer estates c. 1790, on the extinction
DILLWYN VENABLES-LLEWELYN, Llysdinam Newbridge-on-Wye - see DILLWYN
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner Amy Dillwyn was born on 16 May 1845 into a wealthy and distinguished Swansea family, the daughter of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dillwyn (née De La Beche). Her father was a scientist, industrialist and long-serving Liberal MP for Swansea who campaigned for Disestablishment in Wales. Her mother reputedly contributed to the designs of the Cambrian Pottery owned by her husband. Amy
DILLWYN-LLEWELYN, Llysdinam Newbridge-on-Wye - see DILLWYN

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