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teulu DAVIS, coalowners DAVIS, DAVID, sen. (1797 - 1866), son of William David Jeffrey and Margaret (Lewis), was born in 1797 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire. After serving as apprentice to his maternal uncle, Lewis Lewis, a grocer and draper at Merthyr Tydfil, he opened a shop of his own at Hirwaun, and soon afterwards married Mary Lewis, who seems to have been a daughter of Thomas Lewis, another uncle of his. They
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster (Iolo Morganwg), Thomas Roberts, of Llwyn'rhudol, John Jones of Glan-y-gors, and Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi); and through his influence many in his neighbourhood became supporters of the French Revolution. In 1801-2 there was dissension in his churches, and the more advanced elements built the Unitarian chapels at Pant-y-defaid and Capel-y-groes. He retired 16 January 1820 after having been a
DAVIS, WILLIAM (Golden Farmer; 1627 - 1690), highwayman
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary
DEE, JOHN (1527 - 1608), mathematician and astronomer of his extant which definitely connects his family with Radnorshire; this is in Peniarth MS 252, and it is in Dee's autograph, addressed to his 'Cosen Nicholas ap Meredith at Prestene,' and containing allusions to 'cosens' William, Thomas, and John Lewis - the last-named being the John Lewis of Llynwene, Llanfihangel Nant Melan, Radnorshire, whose collection of papers forms the manuscript in
DEIO ap IEUAN BWL (fl. c. 1530), poet His only known poem is a cywydd in praise of Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Howel of Moelyrch while seeking also the gift of two dogs for William ap Mathew ap Griffith. According to Lewis Dwnn, Llywelyn died 1534.
DEIO ap IEUAN DU (fl. 1460-1480), poet of the line ' y ddraig goch ddyry cychwyn,' which occurs in a cywydd to request the gift of a bull from Siôn ap Rhys of Glyn Nedd. Deio's poetry is in the highly accomplished style characteristic of the mid-15th century poets.
DENNIS, HENRY (1825 - 1906), mining engineer, colliery owner, etc. mines, reorganizing old collieries, establishing terra-cotta works, water-works, and gas-works, chiefly in Denbighshire, but his activities extended into Merioneth and across the border into Shropshire, where he was chairman of the Snailbeach lead mines. He was also managing director of the Glyn Valley tramway and a director of the Minera Mining Company. His chief colliery interests, however, were at
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones
teulu DEVEREUX Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, , Little England, 272), and his position there was safeguarded in the Act of Union (27 Henry VIII, c. 26 § 39). He was involved in disputes with William Barlow, bishop of S. Davids, in 1538, with Henry Somerset (see Somerset family), 2nd earl of Worcester over the stewardship of Arwystli and Cyfeiliog in the same year, with the boroughs of Haverfordwest (1536) and of New Carmarthen (1540), one result of
teulu DILLWYN by 1800 (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 65 - but the statement there that the poet Ieuan Deulwyn was of this family cannot stand). Of the remainder, who retained their name, a WILLIAM DILLWYN, a Quaker, emigrated to Pennsylvania c. 1699 (History of the County of Brecknock 70). His son, JOHN DILLWYN, had a son WILLIAM DILLWYN (1743? - 1824), who returned from
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner William Dillwyn, the anti-slavery campaigner from Pennsylvania, USA. Amy Dillwyn was the third of four children. Her older sister Mary (Minnie) Nichol of Merthyr Mawr was an entomologist, traveller, climber and mother of five. Dillwyn was particularly close to her only brother Henry (Harry), her senior by one year; he was an unhappy barrister, a founder member of the Century Club which supported

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277 - 288 of 1867 for "William Glyn"