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DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist department of grassland agronomy at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. He did not con- fine himself to experimental work, but made a survey of the grassland and waste lands of Wales which was published in A survey of the agricultural and waste lands of Wales in 1937, under the editorship of R.G. Stapledon and with the financial help of David Lloyd George. Between November 1936 and March 1938 he made a
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist eisteddfod supporter and was made an hon. white-robed member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Pwllheli in 1955. He followed the missionary campaigns of Stephen and George Jeffreys in Wales and London. He was baptised in Llanelli and while he lived in London he worshipped at Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and did social work with the Salvation Army. He married (1) Margaret, daughter of William Trefor Davies, minister of
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor the voice of Sergeant Major Zero in Gerry Anderson's Terrahawks, a children's prime-time animated show. He also made many personal appearances on game shows and on other comedians' shows, some of which were not without controversy. From the mid-1980s onwards, Davies played more serious acting roles, such as George Vance in The New Statesman, David Lloyd George in Mosely, General Tufto in Vanity Fair
teulu DAVIES-COOKE Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, estate, obtained on 20 April 1581 from the College of Heralds a confirmation of the family arms, and also the crest borne by his descendants. He married (1) Catherine, daughter of George Ravenscroft (of Bretton, Flintshire, and (2) Elizabeth, widow of John Haynes. By his first wife he had three sons, of whom the second, THOMAS DAVIES, became a lieutenant-colonel for Charles I and constable of Hawarden
teulu DEVEREUX Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, Northumberland, much Devereux property in Carmarthenshire passed into Percy hands, including the six ' Percy rectories ' of south Carmarthenshire, notorious to Puritans of the next century for their fat incomes and neglected parishioners; Llan-y-bri, a chapel of ease pertaining to one of them, was later secured for a body of Independents through the offices of William Evans (died 1718). Sir GEORGE DEVEREUX (fl
teulu DILLWYN VENABLES -LLEWELYN; on the Venables (a Cheshire family originally) see Williams, Hist. of Radnorshire (2nd ed., 383-4). Lady Venables-Llewelyn was the daughter of Richard Lister Venable (1809 - 1894), vicar of Clyro, who figures in the diaries of Francis Kilvert, and whose brother George Stovin Venable (1819 - 1888), classical scholar and writer in the Saturday Review, is in the D.N.B. - his fight with
teulu DOLBEN Segrwyd, councillors and civic officials. DAVID DOLBEN (1581 - 1633), bishop of Bangor Religion Son of Robert Wyn Dolben (great-grandson of the first Robert Dolben above) and of Jane, daughter of Owen ap Reinallt of Glyn Llugwy. He entered S. John's College, Cambridge, in 1602, holding one of the scholarships founded by Dr. John Gwyn (died 1574), and graduated B.A. 1606, M.A. 1609, and D.D. 1626. Ordained by George
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer Pembrokeshire by just 129 votes from the sitting 'Liberal' MP Gwilym Lloyd George. Donnelly had succeeded in taking advantage of radical sentiment in the highly marginal constituency and of local Liberal disapproval of Lloyd George's over-close association with the Conservative Party. Donnelly built up a considerable personal following in the county, where many admired his enormous energy, organisational
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales
EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner
EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade union leader and politician mines and slate quarries of north Wales where he set up branches of the T.G.W.U. and the Labour Party. He was elected a member of Penmaen-mawr Rural District Council which he served as chairman. In the general election of 1929 he acted as agent to Thomas ap Rhys who opposed D. Lloyd George as Labour candidate for the Caernarfon Boroughs. While Edwards was unemployed in 1932 he was appointed a full
EDWARDS, Sir JOHN (1770 - 1850), baronet and M.P. , George Henry Vane, later 5th marquess of Londonderry.

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