Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet William John Roberts, Gwilym Cowlyd, a work which was published by his widow under the title Gwilym Cowlyd 1828-1904 (1976). He married Freda Vaughan Davies, Maesneuadd, Pontrobert and they had a son and a daughter. He died at his home in Colwyn Bay, 13 June 1968, and was buried in Bron-y-nant cemetery, Colwyn Bay.
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress supervision of Sir (Henry) Walford Davies, who was also chiefly responsible for the concerts, which culminated in the annual Festivals of Music and Poetry between 1933 and 1938. The sisters were members of the Gregynog Choir that sang on these occasions, and visitors included Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. The National Council of Music for Wales had been to a considerable extent funded by the sisters
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 Son of John Davies, cleric and philosopher. He was a 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 He was one of the 31 founding
DAVIES, TUDOR (1892 - 1958), singer the British National Opera Co. and remained with that company for the rest of his career. He portrayed Rudolfo in London in 1922, and in 1924 he sang the leading role in the first public performance of Hugh the Drover (Vaughan Williams) in His Majesty's Theatre. He was principal tenor in Sadler's Wells, 1931-41, and with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, 1941-46; and as a resident member of the company
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, -7. Robert Davies married Letitia, daughter of Edward Vaughan of Trawsgoed, Cardiganshire, and grand-daughter of Sir John Vaughan, Chief Justice of Common Pleas. He died 8 July 1710, and was buried at Mold. His widow married Peter Pennant of Bychton and Downing, Flintshire. The Llannerch and Gwysaney estates passed to his son, ROBERT DAVIES (1684 - 1728), born 2 September 1684, high sheriff of
EDWARDS, CHARLES ALFRED (1882 - 1960), metallurgist and principal of University College of Swansea -author with Carpenter of a report on the copper-aluminium alloys and was appointed a lecturer in Metallurgy at Manchester University. Between this date and 1910, when he returned to industry with Bolckow Vaughan and Dorman Long in Middlesborough, he published several papers on the heat treatment of steel and was awarded the degree of M.Sc. He was also far in advance of contemporary ideas in
EDWARDS, JOHN DAVID (1805 - 1885), cleric and musician being ' Rhosymedre ' (also called ' Lovely ' - Vaughan Williams's Choral Prelude on the Welsh Tune 'Lovely,' based on 'Rhosymedre,' was played on the organ at the Church musical festival held in the Crystal Palace, London, 21 July 1933). Edwards was considered one of the best music adjudicators in Wales in his time; it was he, together with Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), who awarded the first prize to
ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier antiquary, whose genealogical collections were extensively used by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt, the estate of Gwasnewydd (now Croes-newydd) in the township of Broughton and parish of Wrexham. His family lived there till towards the close of the 17th century, but in 1646 he is described as 'of Ruabon.' He served under Gustavus Adolphus in the Thirty Years War, and on his return in the Civil War at home on 15
ELLIS family Bron y Foel, Ystumllyn, Ynyscynhaearn This family, the name of which is alphabetized here, for the sake of convenience, under Ellis, produced some well-known members before Owen Ellis (died 1622) appears to have stabilized the surname. It claimed descent from Collwyn ap Tangno. To one branch of it belonged Meredydd, ancestor of the Vaughan family of Trawsgoed, Cardiganshire, afterwards earls of Lisburne, Iorwerth, ancestor of the
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist Born in Aber-erch, Caernarfonshire, his mother being the daughter of John Roberts (Siôn Lleyn, 1749 - 1817; the artist was also related to John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion, 1786 - 1859. He was apprenticed to a carpenter but, as he displayed some talent for painting, Sir Robert Williames Vaughan of Nannau, Meironnydd, brought him to the notice of Sir Martin Archer Shee, the painter, who gave him
ELLIS, JOHN (d. 1665), cleric and quasi-Puritan preach by the Triers, and the eulogy pronounced upon him by the uncompromising Cavalier Rowland Vaughan of Caer-gai, go far to prove that he had very little sympathy with the later religious policy of the Puritans. He found no difficulty in conforming after the Restoration - no better proof need be found than the publication in 1660 of his Defenso Fidei, a Latin defence of the Anglican position and a

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