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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.
teulu DEVEREUX Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, stewardship of the dissolved monastic foundations of Whitland, Llanllŷr, and Carmarthen Priory, he consolidated the position of the family as 'nursing fathers of the ultra-Protestant party' in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire (Laws, op. cit., 303). In 1559, on succeeding as viscount Hereford, he became steward and receiver of Builth, of Walscot, Wydygada, and Elvet, and of the Welsh courts in Cardiganshire
teulu DILLWYN America, settling at Higham Hall, Walthamstow, and married (1777) Sarah Weston, of High Hall, Essex. Their son was LEWIS WESTON DILLWYN (1778 - 1855) Born at Ipswich 21 August 1778, was in 1802 placed by his father in control of the ' Cambrian Pottery ' at Swansea, to which he removed in 1803, living at first at Burrough Lodge and afterwards at Sketty Hall. In 1814, this pottery took over the designers
DILLWYN, ELIZABETH AMY (1845 - 1935), novelist, industrialist and feminist campaigner Amy Dillwyn was born on 16 May 1845 into a wealthy and distinguished Swansea family, the daughter of Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Elizabeth (Bessie) Dillwyn (née De La Beche). Her father was a scientist, industrialist and long-serving Liberal MP for Swansea who campaigned for Disestablishment in Wales. Her mother reputedly contributed to the designs of the Cambrian Pottery owned by her husband. Amy
DIVERRES, POL (1880 - 1946), linguist, Celtic scholar, and sometime Keeper of manuscripts in the National Library of Wales French master at Lewis' School, Pengam, Glamorgan, he was appointed Keeper of manuscripts and sub-librarian in the National Library of Wales (9 September 1919); he relinquished this post in 1923 to join the French department in the newly-established University College of Swansea. He had a good Celtic library. His widow and son arranged for much of it, especially the Breton books and journals, to come
teulu DOLBEN Segrwyd, Abbot, bishop of London, in 1607, he became successively vicar of Hackney (1619) and Llangernyw (1621), and prebendary of S. Asaph (1626), and was elected a capital burgess of Denbigh in 1627. On the death of Lewis Bayly, he was elected to the vacant see of Bangor, receiving consecration at the hands of Abbot, now archbishop of Canterbury (March 1632), and resigning his living of Llangernyw. He was a
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist adopted his mother's surname. The earliest of Lewis Dwnn's poems is dated 1568 and the latest 1616 (Peniarth MS 96 (441, 586)). His wife was Alice, daughter of Meredydd ap Dafydd, and it is possible that James Dwnn the poet was the eldest of his six children. The best evidence of Lewys Dwnn's early interest in genealogy is to be found in his own introduction to his book of pedigrees where he names the
DYER, JOHN (1699 - 1757), poet acquaintance of Aaron Hill and his circle, which included James Thomson and Richard Savage. In A New Miscellany, which is presumed to have been published in that year, 1726, there appeared Dyer's 'Grongar Hill' in octosyllabics; also in 1726 it came out in a pindaric version in Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, ed. Savage; and finally, in Miscellaneous Poems, ed. D. Lewis, yet another version in
EDDOWES, JOSHUA (1724 - 1811), printer and bookseller , and afterwards by J. and W. Eddowes. They appear to have printed some very important works in their time, e.g. Lloffion Prydyddiaeth … Mr. Rees Prichard, 1766, Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsg, 1768, as well as many almanacs by Gwilym Howell. J. Eddowes's wife, whom he married on 13 September 1753, was Lydia, daughter of William Phillips.
EDWARDS, EDWARD (1726? - 1783?), cleric and scholar Born at Talgarth, Towyn, Meironnydd, son of Lewis Edwards, 'esq.'; matriculated at Jesus (Oxford) in May 1743, 'aged 17'; and graduated in January 1746/7 (B.D. 1756, D.D. 1760). Elected Fellow in 1747, he retained his Fellowship till 1783, and was also (from 1770 at latest) rector of Bessels-leigh near Oxford; from 1762 till 1783 he was vice-principal of Jesus. He resigned in 1783 to become
EDWARDS, ELLIS (1844 - 1915), Calvinistic Methodist minister and principal of Bala Theological College : ethics, apologetics, comparative religion, and afterwards divinity. Before the college was converted into a purely theological institution (1891) he devoted himself largely to Latin, Greek, and English literature. He delivered the Davies lecture ('The Being of God') in 1903. He fell far short of Lewis Edwards in theology and of Thomas Charles Edwards in exegesis, but in all subjects which lay on the

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