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DAFYDD, OWEN (1751 - 1814?), rustic poet and ballad-writer Llwyn Uchedwel, near Glais, in the Vale of Swansea; later still he moved to Cefn Myddfai, Llangyfelach, and Melin Gurwen. His last home was at Melin-y-gurnos, in the Vale of Swansea. In 1869 a monument was erected over his grave in the parish churchyard, Ystradgynlais, according to which he was born in 1751 and died 29 March 1813. Thomas Levi (Y Traethodydd, 1866, 406) says that he died 29 March 1813
DAFYDD, RICHARD WILLIAM (fl. 1740-1752), Methodist exhorter headed by John Richard of Llansamlet against the dispositions made by the Association in 1743, and both Whitefield and Howel Harris wrote remonstrating with him. In 1744 he was appointed visitor to the societies at Gorseinon and Pembrey. He is known to have been at Llandyfaelog in 1744 and Thomas William (1717 - 1765) met him there in 1747. We catch a last glimpse of him in 1752 when he was preaching
DAFYDD, THOMAS (fl. 1765-1792), elegist and hymnist official record of his recognition as exhorter; nor was he one of the men named Thomas David, whose letters are found in the Trevecka collection. His elegies contain useful information on Methodist personalities of his day. These elegies, and his hymns, are contained in some twenty booklets published between 1765 and 1792; these are described by Garfield H. Hughes in Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical
DAIMOND, ROBERT (BOB) BRIAN (1946 - 2020), civil engineer and historian , gave numerous lectures, and appeared regularly on TV and radio news and documentaries talking about the Menai Strait bridges. Shortly before his death he published the book The Menai Suspension Bridge: The First 200 years, a comprehensive history of the world-famous bridge. The engineer Thomas Telford was a hero of his. For an ICE-sponsored celebration of Telford's 250th birthday in 2007 Daimond wore
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner Gwyn Daniel was born on 1 August 1904 in the village of Bryn, Port Talbot, the first child of Thomas Daniel (1875-1952), a coalminer, and his wife Sarah (née Walters, 1879-1922). Their second child, Mary Margaret (May) was born in 1909. The family worshipped at Bryn Seion Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Gwyn was a pupil at the local elementary school before attending the County School for Boys
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools , followed by a first class in divinity in 1925. In the same year, a ' fellowship ' was created for him at Bala-Bangor College and on the death of Dr. Thomas Rees, he was appointed a full professor on 28 July, 1926, to be responsible for the courses on Christian doctrine and the philosophy of religion. In 1931 he was freed from his work to study with Rudolph Bultmann in Marburg. He remained at Bala-Bangor
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress Eleanor Daniels was born on 28 December 1886 in Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of David Daniels, a hay merchant and publican, and his wife Margaret. She was brought up at the Fountain Inn, 36 (now 40) Thomas Street in Llanelli. The family were members of Capel Newydd Methodist chapel, and Welsh was her first language. She learnt to recite in chapel and achieved her first success in a
DARLINGTON, THOMAS (1864 - 1908), scholar and inspector of schools
DAVID, JOB (1746 - 1812), General Baptist minister 1809 and retired to Swansea, where he died 11 October 1812 (not 1813 as is generally said). He was a vigorous controversialist, crossing swords with his former tutor Caleb Evans (on behalf of Arminianism), with Priestley (against infant baptism), and with Thomas Coke.
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister he lived at Cilast near Manordivy, Pembrokeshire, and was a well-to-do farmer. He seems to have begun preaching c. 1736, and in 1745 succeeded Lewis Thomas (of Bwlch-sais) as pastor of the churches of Rhydyceisiaid, Carmarthenshire, and Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire. He itinerated over a wide area, reaching as far north as S. Dogmaels; in 1747-8 he had the assistance of Evan Williams (1719 - 1748), of
DAVID, REES (fl. 1746), early Arminian Baptist schoolmaster. In 1720 or 1721 he published a Welsh translation of the Baptist Association's Confession of Faith. This has been wrongly attributed to Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhyd-owen (1700? - 1742), an attribution not only improbable in itself but contradicted by the 'R.D.' appended to the book and to its preface. On the other hand, Joshua Thomas, oddly enough, credits David with Llun Agrippa, 1723 (a version

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