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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
DWN, HENRY (before c. 1354 - November 1416), landowner and rebel the Soul and the Body', composed in the period 1375-82, Iolo Goch refers to three 'men of Cydweli' as 'princes of battle', almost certainly evoking Henry Dwn and his family. Lewys Glyn Cothi names Henry Dwn in a poem to Gwilym ap Gwallter, whose mother was Dwn's granddaughter. Not unlike some others of his class, Henry Dwn could be heavy-handed and contentious, and he was often undeterred by legal
DWNN, GRUFFYDD (c. 1500 - c. 1570), country gentleman The most distinguished of the Dwnns of Carmarthenshire and the first to live at Ystrad Merthyr, near Kidwelly, a mansion erected in 1518. He was twice married and had eight children, the eldest of whom was 11 years old in 1533, but he lived to see his family disintegrate in the many epidemics of the period. Poets like ' Syr ' Owen ap Gwilym, Harri ap Rhys ap Gwilym, Thomas Vychan, Wiliam Llŷn
DWNN, LEWYS (c. 1550 - c. 1616) Betws Cedewain, genealogist He himself says (Heraldic Visitations, i, 26) that he was descended from David Dwnn of Kidwelly (brother of Owain Dwnn), 'who went to Powys after slaying the Mayor of Kidwelly,' and through his wife Angharad Lloyd became owner of Cefn y Gwestyd. One of the Cefn y Gwestyd family, namely Gwenllian, daughter of Rhys Goch Dwnn, married Rhys ap Owain ap Morus and so became Lewys's mother. The son
EAMES, MARION GRIFFITH (1921 - 2007), historical novelist Marion Eames was born in Birkenhead, 5 February 1921, the second of three daughters of William Griffith Eames (1885–1959) and his wife Gwladys Mary (née Jones) (1891–1979). Her maternal grandparents had moved to Merseyside from Anglesey and Caernarfonshire, followed as a very young man by her father. Her upbringing was that of a Welsh-speaking family, her parents members of Woodchurch Road chapel
EAMES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), journalist on returning to Prestatyn so that the child was born in Wales, although he was raised in Barrow for two years before the family moved to Maes-y-Groes, Prestatyn. William Eames was educated at the church school until he was 12 when he left to work with his father. However, at the age of 17 he became a pupil-teacher at the new British School in Prestatyn. In October 1894, he was one of the first

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