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DAWE, CHARLES (DAVIES) (1886 - 1958), choral conductor at eisteddfodau. Their only child, Charles Gounod Dawe (1912-1961), was born in Port Talbot on 9 September 1912; before the end of that year the family sailed from Liverpool on the Carmania to New York, and made their home in Cleveland, Ohio, where Dawe was appointed choirmaster of Calvary Anglican church. He served in the British armed forces during World War I and returned to Cleveland to pursue
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist Born 16 December 1864 at Bryncethin, near Bridgend, his father, Thomas, being farmer of the smallholding of Cae-helyg Bach, a collier at Park Slip, and a lay preacher, and his mother, Mary, a member of the David family of Pencoed. On his father's side, he was descended from the illustrious families of Gamage and Dawkins. His mother died in 1877, his father was killed in the colliery, 14 August
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician Born 30 April 1883, at Skewen, Glamorganshire, son of Morgan de Lloyd, an insurance agent. The family moved several times before eventually settling down at Penparcau, Aberystwyth. While they lived at Carmarthen David attended Pentrepoeth board school. From early childhood he showed remarkable musical ability. In 1894 J.S. Curwen attended the South Wales Tonic Sol-fa Conference held at Carmarthen
DEAKIN, ARTHUR (1890 - 1955), trade union leader Born 11 November 1890 at Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, the son of a shoemaker. His father died when he was a child, his mother re-married and the family moved to live at Merthyr Tydfil. In 1904 he began work at the Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds steelworks at Dowlais. He was influenced by socialism, in particular by Keir Hardie, who used to address meetings at the factory gates. Although Deakin
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
teulu DEVEREUX Lamphey, Ystrad Ffin, Vaynor, Nantariba, Pencoyd, A Norman family, one branch of which settled in Herefordshire soon after the Conquest, and eventually acquired important interests in south and central Wales. WALTER DEVEREUX, 1st viscount Hereford (c. 1491 - 1559) The eldest son of John, lord Ferrers, to whose title he succeeded in 1501, adding to it in 1550 that of viscount Hereford. He became a member of the Council of Wales in 1513; in 1525
DEVONALD, JOHN (1863 - 1936), musician Born at Aberdare, 13 May 1863. He belonged to a musical family and possessed a good voice. He was admitted a member of the Aberdare United Choir when he was 11 years of age. In the Cardiff eisteddfod, 1883, he won the prize for singing Handel's 'Is not his word like a fire?' He was elected a member of the United Welsh Choir formed in 1880 to sing Joseph Parry's 'Emanuel' at Cambridge and in
teulu DILLWYN This family seems to have originated from Dillwyn (or Dilwyn, but the name does not appear to be Welsh - see Ekwall, Dictionary of English Place-names), near Weobley, Herefordshire, but afterwards settled in Llangorse parish (Brecknock). After the death of a Jeffrey Dillwyn there (1677), some of his family used ' Jeffreys ' as a surname and migrated to Brecon; this branch had apparently died out
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
teulu DOLBEN Segrwyd, This family, probably not of Welsh origin and appearing in early records as 'Doulben,' first settled in Denbighshire after Henry VII's grant of Segrwyd to ROBERT DOLBEN for his services against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath (1497). His grandson and namesake became recorder and steward of Denbigh, and others of the family entered trade there, supplying the borough with a succession of common
DONALDSON, JESSIE (1799 - 1889), teacher and anti-slavery activist Jessie Donaldson was born on 18 February 1799 in Ware, Hertfordshire, the daughter of Samuel Heineken (1768-1856), a London lawyer, and his wife Jannet. She was baptised on 11 April at the Old Presbyterian Meeting House in Swan Yard, Ware. Later the family moved first to Bristol, then to Swansea where they made their home in Dynevor Place. From 1829 she and her sister, Mary Ann, ran a school for
DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer He was born on 16 October 1920 at Gohaingaon, Sibsagar, Assam, India, the second son of Louis James Donnelly, a tea planter of Irish extraction, and Florence Aimée Tucker (died 1968), the daughter of an English Indian Civil Service family. Donnelly was taken by his mother to England in 1928 (subsequently losing contact with his father). He received his education at Brightlands School, Newnham-on

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