Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DAVID (Welsh Freeholder; 1765 - 1816), barrister and author , and practised in London and on the Oxford and South Wales circuits. In 1800 he graduated from Caius College, Cambridge (M.A. in 1803). Under the pseudonym of ' Welsh Freeholder ' he championed the cause of freedom against the attacks of Samuel Horsley, bishop of S. Davids, in a series of pamphlets: (1) A Letter to the Right Rev. Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's, 1791, (2) Thoughts on the Riots at
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1792 - 1858), cleric, scholar, and schoolmaster subsequently at Hyde Abbey school, near that city. During this period he took holy orders, and in 1820, after the death of Eliezer Williams, he was offered the living of Lampeter by bishop Burgess. He accepted it, and continued the excellent work done by his predecessor. He was not chosen first principal of S. David's College, but his school so prospered that some boys were sent to him from Scotland
DAVIES, ELLIS (1872 - 1962), priest and antiquarian Born 22 September 1872, son of Ellis Davies, a gardener at Nannerch, Flintshire, but the family soon moved to Llaniestyn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, and in 1892 he gained an entrance exhibition to St. David's College, Lampeter, where he won prizes each year. After graduating in 1895 he was ordained and served as curate in Llansilin, and then in Old Colwyn and St
EDMUNDS, WILLIAM (1827 - 1875), cleric, schoolmaster, and man of letters Born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, christened 27 December 1827. He attended the grammar school in his native town and, at the age of 19, went to S. David's College, Lampeter. There he won many prizes, was accounted one of the most distinguished students, and attained the highest honours. After leaving college he became vice-principal of the Normal College, Carmarthen, and was ordained by bishop
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (1782 - 1858), Independent minister Born 2 August 1782 at Clun-gwyn, Mydrim, Carmarthenshire, the son of David and Margaret Griffiths, members of Bethlehem church, St Clears. He went from school at St Clears to Carmarthen grammar school, and passed into the Presbyterian Academy in 1802. He was ordained at Machynlleth in March 1807. His churches increased in membership; Aberhosan and Penuel were under his care, and he had oversight
JONES, WILLIAM (1806 - 1873), cleric and man of letters had just died, and at the end of 1832 was called to the pastorate by a majority of its members. But the minority, alleging among other things that Jones upheld 'open communion,' revolted, and were expelled - in the upshot, the Association disowned the church and excommunicated the pastor (1833). Jones now became an Anglican, and spent eighteen months at S. David's College, Lampeter; he was ordained
WILLIS-BUND, JOHN WILLIAM (1843 - 1928), writer on the history of the Welsh Church history of the church in Wales, contributed articles to the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society (his paper on Peckham in Trans. Cymm., 1900-1, is worthy of notice), and edited for that society the Black Book of St. Davids (1902) - the work was but indifferently done. He also published a book, The Celtic Church of Wales, 1897; this propounded a theory of his own, and was judged by Louis Gougaud to
DAVIES, DAVID CAXTON (1873 - 1955), printer and company director Born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, 8 August 1873, son of David and Margaret Davies (the oldest inhabitant of the town when she died 28 December 1937). Educated in his native town, he became manager of the Welsh Church Press at Lampeter, and (1909-19) of Grosvenor and Chater & Co., London; manager and director of William Lewis, Ltd., printers, Cardiff, and of Davies, Harvey and Murrell, Ltd., paper
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales ) warden of Llandovery College, was ordained deacon in 1874 and priest in 1875; in 1885 he was preferred to the vicarage of S. Peter, Carmarthen, becoming at the same time private secretary to bishop William Basil Jones of S. Davids. In February 1889 he was nominated bishop of St Asaph, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 25 March. On 1 June 1920 he was enthroned first archbishop of Wales at St
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar Studies at Liverpool University. Simon Evans remained in Swansea until 1956 when he was appointed to succeed J. Lloyd-Jones as Professor of Welsh at University College Dublin, but in 1962 he was back in Wales as lecturer in Welsh at St David's University College, Lampeter. Melville Richards was appointed to the chair of Welsh at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1965 and Simon Evans
BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer the Lord Chancellor's Committee on Leasehold Reform, and in 1972 he occupied the chair of the committee on Bilingual Traffic Signs. He also served as the committed president of St David's University College, Lampeter from 1977 until 1992. One of the libraries and a research centre at Lampeter carry his name, and Roderic Bowen is also the name of one of the student halls of residence on the Lampeter
JONES, RICHARD IDWAL MERVYN (1895 - 1937), schoolmaster, poet, and dramatist . David's College School, Lampeter (1909-11). After spending a short time as a clerk in the office of a solicitor at Lampeter, he became a clerk to his father who had relinquished school-mastering after a dispute with the governors of his school (Felin-fach) and had started in business in Lampeter as a coal-merchant. He joined the army in March 1915 and saw service in East Africa; he left the army in

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