Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Born 10 February 1780, second son of George Cotton, dean of Chester, and Catherine, daughter of James Tomkinson of Dorfold Hall, Nantwich. Educated at Rugby school and Trinity College, Cambridge (matric, 1797, LL.B. 1804), he was ordained in 1803, became curate of Stoke, 1803, Thornton, Chester, 1806; rector of Derwen, Denbighshire, 1809, junior vicar of Bangor, Caernarfonshire (by exchange), and
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor Regiment and was later commissioned to the new Welsh Guards, attaining the rank of captain. At the battle of Loos he was severely wounded and began a lifelong struggle against ill-health. Remaining with the Regiment until 1924, he founded both the Welsh Guards Choir and their rugby team which he captained. His enthusiasm for that game was evidenced by the sponsoring and promotion of Crawshay's XV which
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner , Port Talbot. He was of the opinion that his family had contributed to the Anglicisation of his local school and community, and it was his ambition to atone for that travesty. He graduated in Geography and Welsh at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and played centre for the University's first rugby team. A few years later he and his close friend, Eic Davies (1909-1993), compiled Welsh language
DARLINGTON, THOMAS (1864 - 1908), scholar and inspector of schools . (London) in 1887, winning the gold medal. After spending nine months in Germany he became assistant master at Rugby school in 1887, and headmaster of Queen's College, Taunton, in 1888; in the same year he was elected a Fellow of his old college. Though unsuccessful in his application for the post of principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1891, he came to Wales in 1896 (after a
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman Lyn Talfan Davies (who married the rugby international Barry John), Christopher Humphrey Talfan Davies, and Kathryn Elizabeth Talfan Davies. Alun Talfan Davies was made QC in 1961 and knighted in 1976. He was appointed Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil in 1963; of Swansea in 1969; and later that year of Cardiff; was Honorary Cardiff Recorder and a Crown Court Recorder 1972-1983; Deputy Chair of Cardigan
DAVIES, DAVID (1896 - 1976), cricketer and cricket umpire and a highest score of 216 against Somerset in 1939, and 16 centuries, including three consecutive hundreds in 1928. A hard-hitting batsman, in 1927 he hit a massive six which cleared the rugby stand at Swansea with the ball landing in a coal truck standing on the railway line outside the ground: it was later claimed that the ball had been discovered by a railwayman when the wagon was being unloaded
DAVIES, DAVID EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire Emrys Davies was born at Sandy, Llanelli on 27 June, 1904, the son of Thomas Davies, a tin-worker, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Pentip Anglican School, Sandy, Llanelli. He married Gertrude Moody in 1927, and they had a son, Peter, who won a Rugby Blue at Cambridge University and captained the Glamorgan Seconds in the 1950s. Emrys Davies was, together with Dai Davies, one of the first two
DAVIES, DAVID JACOB (1916 - 1974), minister, author and broadcaster higher certificate. He fractured his right arm whilst playing rugby in 1933 and as a result was unable to write for some time. This caused him to give up his education and he spent a year working as a farm hand in the Dihewyd area and with his father as a stone mason. In 1937, he entered the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, training to become a Unitarian Minister. He gained entry to the University of
DAVIES, GWILYM ELFED (Baron Davies of Penrhys), (1913 - 1992), Labour politician , November 1964-June 1968, to Rt. Hon. R. J. Gunter, the Minister of Labour and later Minister of Power. In 1974 he became Baron Davies of Penrhys (life peerage). He was a part-time member of the South Wales Electricity Board from 1974-1980, and a member of the Sports Council for Wales from 1978. He was made a Freeman of the Borough of Swansea in 1975. His hobbies were rugby football and cricket. He
DAVIES, HAYDN GEORGE (1912 - 1993), cricketer years he had been a talented rugby player and was awarded two Welsh Schoolboy caps in 1931. He was a skilful squash player and also represented Wales at this sport. Following his retirement from cricket he became the professional at the Edinburgh Squash and Tennis Club, and was appointed as its secretary in 1964. He returned in the mid-1970s to run a public house in Pembrokeshire. Haydn Davies died at
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor Davies and Don 'Lofty' Estelle recording a comic version of the song 'Whispering Grass', which gave them a Number 1 hit in 1975, which is still the sixth highest-selling UK duet of all time. In 1978, Davies also made a cult Welsh film, Grand Slam, which firmly embedded him into the psyche of 1970s Wales. The film showed the exploits of the committee and members of an imaginary rugby club (Aberflyarff
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer -Severn, Gloucestershire, and Bembridge School on the Isle-of-Wight. He was much influenced by the ideas of William Morris and joined the Labour League of Youth while still in his teens. He left school in 1938 and worked as an office-boy at London. In his youth he was also a keen player of cricket and rugby football. He became secretary of the London Grasshoppers Rugby Club on leaving school. At the age

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