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DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family Of Lloyd of Dolobran, near Meifod, Montgomeryshire; son of Dafydd Llwyd ab Ieuan (on whom see the article Lloyd of Dolobran) and his wife Eva; husband to Alice, daughter of Dafydd Llwyd of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr. A number of his poems, in the strict metres, remain in manuscripts. They include some to Gilbert Humphrey of Cefn Digoll, Montgomeryshire (1596), Hywel and Siôn Fychan of [Llanfair
DAFYDD BENWYN (fl. second half of the 16th century), bards of Glamorgan His contemporary, Sils ap Siôn, says that he was from Llangeinor. His bardic teacher was Rhisiart Iorwerth (Rhisiart Fynglwyd,), Llangynwyd, son of Iorwerth Fynglwyd. Some of his work, in his autograph, is in Cardiff MS. 10 and Llanstephan MS 164, and there are extant two large collections of his awdlau and cywyddau, the one in Cardiff MS. 2 (277) and the other in Jes. Coll. MS. 13. He was the
DAFYDD COWPER (GOWPER) (fl. c. 1500), poet His poems are preserved in Peniarth MS 76, Peniarth MS 312, Llanstephan MS 118, Cardiff MS. 7, Cardiff MS. 49, B.M. Add. MS. 14997, and NLW MS 728D. Among them is a cywydd which John Puleston the elder ('Sion pilstwn hen') of Bersham caused to be written to John, abbot of Valle Crucis, and an englyn to the steeple of Wrexham church, 1507.
DAFYDD LLWYD (bu farw 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar
DAFYDD LLWYD ap SION - gweler DAFYDD LLWYD o'r HENBLAS
DAFYDD SIÔN PIRS - gweler JONES, DAVID
DAFYDD SIÔN SIÂMS - gweler JONES, DAFYDD
DAFYDD, EDWARD (c. 1600 - 1678?) Margam, bard His birth may be assigned to c. 1600 -there is a cywydd which he wrote in 1623. Iolo Morganwg said that his bardic teacher was Llywelyn Siôn, of the neighbouring parish of Laleston. He was the most prominent of the Glamorgan bards of the 17th century; in all probability he can be regarded as the last of them who was a professional bard. He sang awdlau and cywyddau to the landed gentry of
DANIEL, JOHN (1755? - 1823), printer ,' which was a quarto, Daniel printed 4,000 copies of an octavo Bible in Welsh. He was the first in Wales to print music in staff notation; this was in 1797 when he produced Cyfaill mewn Llogell, by John Williams ('Siôn Singer' 1750? - 1807). He also it was who printed the earlier issues of The Carmarthen Journal, which began to appear on 3 March 1810. He had been made a freeman of the borough of
DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister , Llandeilo and remained there until his retirement in 1954 when he went to live in Sketty, Swansea. He died 17 September 1958 and was interred at Bwlchnewydd, Carmarthenshire. He was chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1947 and that year he went to America to attend the World Congregational Congress in Boston. He published three books: Siôn Gymro (1938), Cofiant Tomos Llanboidy (1953), and Coleg
DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648 - 1722), translator, copyist and collector of manuscripts refers to this event in his poems - and there is evidence that he lived in Penllyn, Meironnydd, for a time before returning to Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, where he died 24 September 1722. It is recorded that he was buried there 27 September 1722. There are indications that his later years were made wearisome by poverty and ill health. The tradition that Siôn Rhydderch (John Roderick), the almanac
DAVIES, JAMES EIRIAN (1918 - 1998), poet and minister cultural circles. Jennie Eirian Davies (1925-1982) first became nationally known when she stood as a parliamentary candidate for Plaid Cymru in the 1955 General Election and again in a by-election in 1957. Her husband supported her in this and in all the other campaigns she undertook on behalf of the Welsh language and the religious heritage. They had two sons, Siôn Eirian (1954) who became a full-time

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