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DAFYDD GAM (bu farw 1415), Welsh warrior , Newton (near Brecon), Tre-gaer, Buckland, and Penderyn, until the male line died out and the surname disappeared. The last sheriff to bear it was Hoo Games of Newton (1657). Through the marriage of his daughter Gwladus to Sir William ap Thomas of Raglan, died 1469), Dafydd Gam was forefather of all the Herberts.
DAFYDD GOCH BRYDYDD o FUALLT (fl. end of the 16th century), poet Among his extant poems are those written to Sir John Salusbury (NLW MS 6495D and NLW MS 6496C), Sir John Wynn of Gwydir (Cardiff MS. 83), and Gruffydd Fychan of Cors y Gedol (Llanstephan MS 118). It is also possible that he is the ' Dafydd Goch ' whose poetry is to be found in the following manuscripts: Llanstephan MS 38, Llanstephan MS 49, Llanstephan MS 118, Llanstephan MS 125, Llanstephan MS
DAFYDD LLWYD MATHAU, MATHE, or MATHEW (fl. 1601-1629), poet and strolling minstrel A native, according to J. H. Davies, of Cilpyll, Llangeitho. Poems attributed to him include some in honour of the families of Morfa Mawr in Anglesey (1601) and Llewenni in Denbighshire (1602). In Glamorganshire, the Mansells of Margam, the Powells of Llandow, and the Phillipses of Gelli'r-fid, Llandyfodwg, were similarly honoured so, too, in Pembrokeshire, Thomas ap Richard of Marloes and the
DAFYDD NANMOR (fl. 15th century), poet France. As the fighting in France ceased in 1453, Thomas Roberts maintains that the departure of Dafydd Nanmor from North Wales must be assigned to some time before that year, and he regards the poems to Gwen o'r Ddôl as the bard's earliest compositions (The Poetical Works of Dafydd Nanmor, xvii-xix). The bard received patronage in South Wales, in the homes of Rhys ap Meredudd of Tywyn, near the mouth
DAFYDD TREFOR Syr (bu farw 1528?), cleric and bard Born in the parish of Llanddeiniolen, Caernarfonshire, according to a statement by John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) in Cwrtmawr MS 561C. In one of his poems, 'Cywydd i ofyn geifr,' he speaks of Morgan ap Hywel, Llanddeiniolen, as his uncle. A summarized account by Irene George (Lloyd-Williams) giving particulars about the bard's history and his poems appears in Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian
DAFYDD Y COED (fl. 1380), poets Four substantial awdlau by him and smaller poems of a satirical nature have been preserved in the ' Red Book of Hergest.' He sang to Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd of Glyn Aeron (fl. 1386-97), Hopkin ap Thomas of Ynysdawe (fl. 1360-90), and Gruffudd ap Llywelyn from Uwch Aeron. Moses Williams's estimate in his Repertorium Poeticum that he flourished about 1380 is confirmed. The above awdlau and the
DAFYDD, JOHN (fl. 1747), hymn-writers Sons of David John (1698 - 1775) and Margaret Richard, his wife (1692 - 1774) John Dafydd was born in 1727 and was still living in 1771. The brothers are said to have been cobblers by trade and to have lived in Bedwgleision, Caeo, Carmarthenshire; the Methodist society of Caeo used to meet in their home. John is mentioned in the Trevecka records as an exhorter in the earliest years of the
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, ROBERT (1747 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher; a weaver Born at Cwmbychan, Nanmor, Meironnydd, son of a weaver named Dafydd Prichard. When about 21 he was affected by a sermon preached by John Robert Lewis, and learned to read in the circulating school kept at Beddgelert by Robert Jones (1745-1829), of Rhos-lan. He then went to live and work in Llangybi parish, Caernarfonshire, married, and set up house at Tyddyn Ruffydd. His name appears as one of
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

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