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CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer Born at Gwynfryn, Bwlch-gwyn, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 November 1881, the son of John Carrington (a descendant of one of the families that migrated from Cornwall to work in the Denbighshire lead mines) and Winifred (née Roberts), a native of Bryneglwys. He spent his early years at Gwynfryn and was educated at Bwlch-gwyn school. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a printer at Hughes
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet of the river Teify, of his sons, and of the kindred of Rhys ap Meredudd. 'Y Ty Gwyn ar Daf' (Whitland), Carmarthenshire, is said to be the place where he lies buried. His editor suggests the years 1410 to 1480 as, approximately, those of the poet's life. He was a supporter of the house of Lancaster throughout his life, but he wrote no cywydd to celebrate the victory of Henry Tudor in 1485; Roberts
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner Gwyn Daniel was born on 1 August 1904 in the village of Bryn, Port Talbot, the first child of Thomas Daniel (1875-1952), a coalminer, and his wife Sarah (née Walters, 1879-1922). Their second child, Mary Margaret (May) was born in 1909. The family worshipped at Bryn Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Gwyn was a pupil at the local elementary school before attending the County School for Boys
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools until January 1946 when he was appointed a Ministry of Education inspector of schools with special responsibility for religious education and the classics. During this time, he lived first of all at Wick, Glamorgan and subsequently at Tŷ Gwyn, Botffari, Flint. He was killed in a road accident near Halkyn in Flintshire on 11 February 1962 and his remains were interred in the New Cemetery at Bangor. He
DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister Born in Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, 12 April 1878, son of Thomas Davies, a worker on the Maes-gwyn estate, and his wife Sarah. After being apprenticed as a joiner, he went to Old College School, Carmarthen, in 1901 and he was admitted to the Presbyterian College there in 1902. He was ordained on 28 July 1904. He married Sarah, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bowen of the parish of Eglwys Newydd
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer Born 31 May 1880 at Hen Giât, Llandegla, Denbighshire, fourth of the six children of William and Mary Ann Davies. His father was a quarryman, who was badly injured in Moel Faen quarry but continued to work there and subsequently in Mwynglawdd chalk quarry, to ward off destitution. In 1893 the family moved to Pentre'r Bais (Gwynfryn) and in 1896 to Bwlch-gwyn. When he was 14 years old Edward
DAVIES, JENKIN (1798 - 1842), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born at Tir-gwyn near Pensarn, Cardiganshire, 24 June 1798, son of Evan Davies, an exhorter who had been among the foremost advocates of the ordination of 1811. The son was educated at schools at Llwyn Dafydd, Cardigan, and New Quay; and then took the farm of Synod Uchaf. In 1825 he began preaching; this was the year in which his spiritual father Ebenezer Morris (1769 - 1825) died, and the young
DAVIES, JOHN (bu farw 1694) Nannau,, 'family bard' the dwindling group of bards who were patronized by some of the Welsh landed families. Poems sung by him to members of the following North Wales families survive: Nannau, Doluwcheogryd, Maes-y-neuadd, Glyncywarch, Dolau-gwyn, Cefnamwlch, Gloddaeth, Bodysgallen, Corsygedol, Maesypandy, Tan-y-bwlch, etc. He wrote elegies on the deaths of two brother poets - Edward Morris of Perthillwydion and Morris
DAVIES, JOHN (1737 - 1821), Independent minister Born in the parish of Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire He probably received very little education. His parents were Anglican, but he joined the Independent church at Pencader when he was about 20 years of age, and began to preach. He was ordained minister of the church at Pentre Tŷ Gwyn, Carmarthenshire, in 1768. He received a 'call' to the churches of Cwm Llynfell, Cwm Aman, and Allt Wen
DAVIES, JOHN (1781 - 1848) Fronheulog,, one of the most prominent lay leaders of Calvinistic Methodism in his day with America; he amassed a considerable fortune. Withal, he was a leading Calvinistic Methodist elder, and a warm supporter of Thomas Charles's activities. After Charles's death, he sided (1816-7) with Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) and John Hughes (1796 - 1860) in their attempts to stem the then rising tide of hyper-Calvinism in the C.M. connexion. He had married (5 January 1781) Ann Jones of Cae-gwyn
DAVIES, THOMAS (TEGWYN; 1851 - 1924), tailor, book-collector and writer Born 11 November 1851, at Ty Gwyn, Abercywarch; his parents were Hugh and Elizabeth Davies. His wife, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair, and his son John Breese Davies was a specialist in cerdd dant. He was a tailor by trade, and among the houses at which (according to the old-time practice) he worked was the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy in the days of D. Silvan Evans, who
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), palaeontologist and the Quarterly Jnl. of the Geological Society, including a note, 1886, on the animal remains found in the Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn caves in North Wales and a catalogue, 1874, of the vertebrate fossils found in the brick-fields near Ilford. His indirect contributions to published works are indicated by the references to help given by him in the publication of the British Museum catalogues of

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