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DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector son of John Davies, 'Gwyneddon'. Robert was a solicitor who was a member of the County Council and the Caernarfon Town Council, and served as chairman of the county education committee, a member of the court of governors of the University College of North Wales, justice of the peace and High Sheriff. He also served as mayor of Caernarfon in 1908. In 1897 he had published The Visions of the Sleeping
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Cardiff Magistrates' Court entirely through the medium of Welsh. He was appointed Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board in 1968 and did great work for the health service, fighting for recognition of the Welsh language and often clashing with the Secretary of State for Wales, George Thomas. The Board was dissolved in 1974 and in the same year he was invited to serve as special adviser to John Morris and
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies of the Council for Social Services for Wales, as vice-commissioner of the St. John's Ambulance in Wales, and as a member of the court of the University of Wales. His service and generosity to both the National Library and National Museum of Wales were very remarkable. He was treasurer of the National Library of Wales and its vice-president when he died. He was president of the National Museum and
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster local school from 1884 to 1886 when he became headmaster of Cymer School in the Afan valley. He retired in 1926. His public service included the chairmanship of the Glyncorrwg U.D.C. and of the Aberafan Juvenile Court. For several years he was the conductor of the Cymer-Afan 'drum and fife' band and of a similar band at Cwmparc (Rhondda Valley) and also of Blaenau Afan Male Voice Choir. He was an
DAVIES, MYLES (1662 - 1715?), dadleuydd crefyddol a llyfryddwr y llyfr The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest, etc. (London, 1705). ' Pollett ' oedd ffugenw Davies fel cenhadwr fel ag y buasai ' Blount ' pan oedd yn efrydydd. Ar ôl ei dröedigaeth ymddengys iddo astudio'r gyfraith, oblegid ar deitlau gwahanol gyfrolau o'i brifwaith, Athenae Britannicae (6 chyf., London, 1716), geilw ei hun yn ' Gentleman of the Inns of Court,' ' Barrister-at-Law,' a
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer styles himself a ' Gentleman of the Inns of Court,' a ' Barrister-at-Law,' and a ' Counsellor-at-Law.' The first volume of this (now very rare) work was first published separately in 1715 under the title of Eikon-Mikro-Biblike sive Icon Libellorum, or a critical history of pamphlets (London, 1715). Very likely it was the existence of an isolated volume with a separate title in addition to the six
DAVIES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr was postponed in the hope of inducing him to recant. Efforts towards this end before the Court of Ludlow being without effect, he was confined at Bewdley and other prisons and eventually returned to Beaumaris in readiness for the next assizes, refusing once more to participate in a plot for his rescue on the way. Here he rejoined his companions, and formed with them a community living by a definite
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge he was knighted and appointed to his first full-time judgeship, becoming a judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division. After eight years of working as a trial judge, in 1966, he was elevated to the rank of Lord Justice of Appeal. Shortly after the nomination, he was entrusted with the duty of chairing the Tribunal of Inquiry into the tragedy of Aberfan. Significantly, Aberfan is
teulu EDWARDS Stansty, leanings, which reappeared in some of his descendants. His eldest son DAVID EDWARDS (died 1635) expanded the estate and built in 1577 the family seat of Plas Isa, while two younger sons distinguished themselves at Oxford. JOHN EDWARDS (second son, born 1612) was educated at Westminster (1629) and Christ Church (matriculated 26 October 1632), graduating B.A. 6 December 1633, M.B. 1635, and becoming court
teulu EDWARDS Chirkland, own son and heir, who in 1624 petitioned Parliament for a Bill to reverse a degree for settlement of the estate which his father had obtained in the Court of Requests, the matter being eventually referred to arbitration by the Lords. In the midst of these troubles Edwards died in London. His son, JOHN EDWARDS IV (died 1646), returned to the practice of conformity (doubtless the cause of the family
teulu EDWARDS Chirkland, ) a gawsai'r tad yn y ' Court of Requests '; diwedd hyn fu i'r Arglwyddi orchymyn i'r achos gael ei ystyried gan ganolwyr. Ynghanol yr holl helyntion hyn bu Edwards farw yn Llundain yn 1625. Bu'n cynorthwyo i gasglu defnyddiau ar gyfer geiriadur Thomas Wiliems a'i galwodd yn 'wir ymgeleddwr yr iaith Gymraec' (Y Greal, 1805, 64). Cydymffurfiodd ei fab JOHN EDWARDS IV (bu farw 1646) tua 1632; efe oedd
ELEANOR DE MONTFORT (c. 1258 - 1282), princess and diplomat December 1276 and January 1277, Llywelyn informed the papacy of Eleanor's detention. In February, Pope John XXI intervened. He unsuccessfully urged Edward to restore Eleanor's liberty as the prince's lawful wife. Chronicles record that throughout 1277 'Llywelyn frequently sent messengers to the king's court to seek to arrange peace between them, but he did not succeed at all'. In a memorandum of

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