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DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales folk-lore, oral traditions, and some historical facts. He states that David was the son of Sant, king of Ceredigion, and Non (Lat. 'Nonnita'), that he was educated by Paulinus at Henfynyw (near Aberayron), that he founded many monasteries, that he overcame an Irish chieftain called Boia near S. Davids; and he describes the hard life led by David and his fellow-monks, the miracles which he performed
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist well as a challenge, and it was an equally important part of her attempt to preserve the dignity of Welsh culture in the face of depopulation and governmental apathy as her everday work within education. Drawing non-Welsh speakers into this culture was very important to her, and she ensured that a part of the concerts and evenings which she organised in areas such as Pembrokeshire and Rhondda was in
DAVIES, DAVID (1896 - 1976), cricketer and cricket umpire woken by his mother at 11.30 a.m. after he had worked a double sixteen-hour shift at the local steel works due to the non-arrival of a colleague, and informed that a car had arrived outside the house to take him to the St. Helens ground, Swansea. Having experienced some difficulty in ensuring his access to the ground, as the match had already commenced, he took a wicket before lunch in his first over
DAVIES, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor federal, non-denominational, bilingual college in the Laurentian University. Emlyn Davies's three and a half years there were fraught with difficulties involving staff and students who had questioned his appointment from the very beginning. In 1969 financial difficulties forced the closure of the Philosophy Department in Huntington and its transfer to another of the colleges. There was also an attempt
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner some hope when Peter Walker replaced Nicholas Edwards to work with Wyn Roberts in the Welsh Office. Davies felt uneasy when the non-statutory Welsh Language Board was set up and with the influx into the Welsh-speaking areas. He continued to draw attention to this crisis for the rest of his days and it became apparent that he was a politician and activist whose arguments could not be silenced. He
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar students there. Stetson University in Florida, awarded him an honorary D.D. in 1965. When he went to Regent's Park, the College had only recently been recognised as a Permanent Private Hall of Residence by Oxford University and during his years as Principal, the College was opened to non-ministerial students and site was enlarged and developed in the form of a quadrangle. Throughout the years, Gwynne
DAVIES, JOHN DAVID (1831 - 1911), cleric and antiquary , Llangennith, and Cheriton. He died, unmarried, 30 September, and was buried at Cheriton 4 October 1911. His researches into the history of Gower were published in four volumes - A History of West Gower (Swansea, 1877-94). He was also the author of A few words on Non-communicating attendance (Swansea, 1879).
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations the Biblical verse 'Love your neighbour as yourself'. A believer in the power of negotiation and attempting to resolve disputes in a non-violent way, she would always emphasize the importance of an individual's rights. She managed the United Nations Association shop in London, and was appointed London Regional Secretary and Deputy Director of the UK United Nations Association. Her enthusiasm was
DODD, CHARLES HAROLD (1884 - 1973), biblical scholar and Grinfield Lecturer in the Septuagint. Three years later he was elected to fill the Rylands Chair of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at Manchester University, and then in 1935 he became the first non-Anglican scholar to occupy a chair of divinity at either of the ancient universities of England when he was elected to the Norris-Hulse Chair at Cambridge, which he held until his retirement in 1949
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge , Lisa and Shan. On the outbreak of the Second World War, he was commissioned into the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in December 1940. Later, however, he was transferred to the Judge Advocate General's Department. Despite the disruption of wartime, Edmund-Davies did not lose contact with non-military legal practice. In 1942 he was appointed to the recordership of Merthyr Tydfil, and in 1944 he was appointed to
teulu EDWARDS Stansty, honest, harmless, sweet disposition.' After the Restoration Edwards was presented by the churchwardens (including his brother David) for non-attendance at church. He added further to the estate till it embraced most of Stansty township and extended into that of Gwersyllt, but on the death, without children, of his great-great-grandson PETER EDWARDS (1783), it went to the Lloyds of Pengwern, and was
EDWARDS, ARTHUR TRYSTAN (1884 - 1973), architect and pioneer town planner -Rhondda, the Prince and Wales of the future appeared in 1972. He returned to architecture in 1968 and published Tomorrow's Architecture: the triple approach. He continued to write well into old age and in 1970 he published Second Best-boy: the autobiography of a non-speaker. Among his other books are Architectural style (1925, 1935); How to observe buildings, (1972), Sir William Chambers (1926), The

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