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DAVIES, EVAN CYNFFIG (1843 - 1908), Independent minister, teacher, author, and musician Born at Mynydd Cynffig (Kenfig Hill), Glamorganshire. He began to study music in his childhood; when he was 15 years of age he was teaching sol-fa at Elim chapel, Mynydd Cynffig, and at one time had a choir of 100 voices. He was educated at Brecon College, and he began a degree-course at Glasgow, but had to abandon it for lack of means. Later in life he graduated at Trinity College, Dublin (M.A
DAVIES, JOHN (1938 - 2015), historian the Year' award for Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw ('Wales: A 100 places to see before you die', 2009), with photographs by Marian Delyth, a splendid guidebook to the land he loved. In 2013 he was the subject of the raw biographical documentary Gwirionedd y Galon ('The Heart's Truth') which won a Welsh BAFTA. And in the following year, a short while before his death, he published his
DAVIES, REES (1694? - 1767), Independent minister Born in Cardiganshire; according to a letter of his (Trevecka letter 100, 20 August 1737) to Howel Harris, he was 'kinsman' to Evan Davies (1694? - 1770), tutor of Carmarthen. At a date unknown to us, he transferred his church membership from Crug-y-maen, Cardiganshire, to Abergavenny. In Dr. John Evans's lists of 1718, a 'Rice Davies' appears as minister of an unidentified place called
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician Leighton, a soprano in the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1894, out of 100 candidates, he was appointed assistant vicar-choral of S. Paul's cathedral, London. He continued to compose and was considered one of the best Welsh composers of his time. He died 30 January 1907 and was buried at Abney Park, London.
DE FREITAS BRAZAO, IRIS (1896 - 1989), lawyer 1922/23 with a picture of her in academic dress, a room in the Hugh Owen Library in the university was named in her honour. In 2018 in celebration of Black History Month in the United Kingdom Iris de Freitas was included in a list of 100 'Icons of Black Wales'. In 2021 the Caribbean Court of Justice honoured her as one of the 'Pioneering Caribbean Women Jurists'.
DE LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1883 - 1948), musician . in the University of Wales. It was felt he should be further encouraged, and a committee chaired by T.F. Roberts promoted a public testimonial amounting to £100 which enabled de Lloyd to spend the session 1906-07 at Leipzig. He taught at schools in Woolwich, 1908-11, Llanelli, 1911-19, and took the degrees of B.Mus., 1913, and Mus. Doc., 1915, at the University of Dublin. He married in 1911 Lilian
teulu DOLBEN Segrwyd, , vii, 543, ix, 1845), others playing their part in the civic life of Ruthin (W. M. Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accounts, 1666-1753; N.L.W. Brogyntyn MSS., letter 100); while DAVID DOLBEN (c. 1686 - c. 1749), son of Hugh Dolben of Llangynhafal, after education at Ruthin and at Magdalene, Cambridge, held several Denbighshire livings and became a canon of Bangor (A. I. Pryce, Diocese of Bangor Through Three
EDWARDES, DAVID EDWARD (1832 - 1898), translator master's degree in 1865. His chief contribution to literature is his translation of the Alcestis of Euripides into Welsh, for which he shared with David Rowlands (Dewi Môn) a prize of £100 at the Aberdare eisteddfod of 1885. Both translations were published in a single volume by the National Eisteddfod Society in 1887. Edwardes held curacies at Laugharne 1866-9, Llandeloy 1869-72, Dinas, Pembrokeshire
ELLIS, ELLIS OWEN (Ellis Bryn-coch; 1813 - 1861), artist painting of a group of about a hundred Welsh men of letters for which William Morris (Gwilym Tawe) paid him 100 guineas, and (b) a portrait of Siôn Wyn o Eifion entitled ' The Bard in Bed,' which is reproduced in the 1861 and 1910 editions of Gwaith barddonol Siôn Wyn o Eifion; the original of (b) is in the National Library of Wales. There are in the Library also two of his books with original
ELLIS, JOHN (bu farw 1665), cleric and quasi-Puritan the new promotion, which included the natural revenue of the rectory ('nearly £100 a year,' it was reputed in 1648), together with a reserved rent of £40 per annum from the rectory of Towyn and £80 from the prebend of Vaynol allowed him as 'augmentations' by the Puritan authorities. Ellis was named one of the twenty-five ' approvers ' under the Propagation Act of 1650; his name is occasionally found
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker and his family over to make a settlement. On 16 October 1686, together with his son Rowland and about 100 of his neighbours, he sailed from Milford Haven to Pennsylvania. He arrived in Philadelphia in April 1687, and settled at Bryn Mawr, now Lower Merion. After making arrangements to make this place his new home he returned to Wales in 1688 and, later, returned again to Pennsylvania with the
EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer the Cymmrodorion Society, and elected to a three-year Fellowship of £100 a year at Jesus College, Oxford. A grant from the Civil List was secured for him the same year to enable him to complete his task. In 1901 the University of Wales conferred upon him the honorary degree of D.Litt. Ecclesiastical honours fell to his lot; he was made an honorary canon of Bangor in 1888, prebendary of Llanfair in

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