Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLYDOG (fl. 500?), saint and martyr the time of king Ithel ap Morgan (c. 750) was acquired by the see of Llandaff. No other church named after this saint is recorded. His festival was observed on 3 November
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest seminary priests, and in 1588 he appears on lord Burghley's list of priests in Wales as ' Clneycke Morgan.' He is known to have said Mass at Llandilo in 1590 and to have ministered elsewhere in Carmarthenshire. He was at Margam in 1591. In 1596 he was living with Jenkin Turberville at Pen-llin, Glamorganshire, and was still there in 1602. In 1606 the Benedictine, David Augustine Baker, brought him to
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician singing. A small group of his political papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Coleman married (1) in 1949 Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963 - they had one son; and (2) in January 1966 Margaret Elizabeth Morgan - they had one daughter. His second wife survived him. Their home was at 'Penderyn', 18 Penywern Road, Bryncoch, Neath. Donald Coleman died on 14 January 1991 and was
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric 1549, and prebendary of Llangamarch. Anticipating official policy, he had the high altar at S. Peter's, Carmarthen, pulled down and replaced by a table, thereby occasioning much consternation. Though an ardent Protestant and registrar of the diocese, he played a leading part in the opposition to bishop Ferrar, at whose trial he sat as a judge with bishop Henry Morgan. Later in Mary's reign, however
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
DAFYDD, JOHN (fl. 1747), hymn-writers
DAFYDD, MORGAN (fl. 1747), hymnist - see DAFYDD, JOHN
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools Born 26 June, 1902, in Bangor, the elder of the two sons of Morgan Daniel (1864 - 1941), Independent minister, and Anna, his wife. J.E. Daniel was educated at Friars School, Bangor and nurtured in the classical tradition. In 1919 he won a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and in 1922 he took a first class in Classical Moderations and the following year, a first class in Literae Humaniores
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, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council (in Wales and the UK) and the Bible Society. According to Richard H. Morgan in a tribute in the Welsh-language periodical Cristion he was equally powerful when preaching the Word in the pulpits of rural Ceredigion as he was fighting the corner of Wales in meetings of the Bible Society in Swindon. In his role as director of the Welsh Books Council he persuaded the various church denominations to
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor described in the Wilson list cited above. Benjamin Davies acquired his rudiments at the hands of his minister Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), then went to the Academy grammar school at Carmarthen c. 1754, and finally (1760) became exhibitioner of the Academy itself. At an unrecorded date he became assistant tutor at Abergavenny Academy, and on the death of David Jardine was appointed (8 December 1766) tutor

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