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CROWTHER, JOHN NEWTON (Glanceri; 1847 - 1928), schoolmaster Born at Cornholme, near Todmorden, Lancashire, 19 November 1847, son of William Crowther and Anne Pickulls; and educated at Cornholme British school, the Vale Academy, Todmorden, and Bangor Normal College. On leaving Bangor in 1866 he secured the headship of Rhydlewis Board school, Cardiganshire. He married Sarah Lloyd, 19 November 1869. At Rhydlewis he gained a knowledge of Welsh, literary and
CYNWRIG HIR (fl. 1093) Edeirnion subsequent careers of Gruffydd and his descendants. Arthur Jones (editor of the History) and Sir J. E. Lloyd do not agree on the length of Gruffydd's imprisonment, nor, as a result, on the date of Cynwrig's visit to Chester, and Lloyd did not place 'absolute confidence' in the story. The History is, nevertheless, an early authority.
DAFYDD ap DAFYDD LLWYD (1549), poet and member of the landed family Of Lloyd of Dolobran, near Meifod, Montgomeryshire; son of Dafydd Llwyd ab Ieuan (on whom see the article Lloyd of Dolobran) and his wife Eva; husband to Alice, daughter of Dafydd Llwyd of Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr. A number of his poems, in the strict metres, remain in manuscripts. They include some to Gilbert Humphrey of Cefn Digoll, Montgomeryshire (1596), Hywel and Siôn Fychan of [Llanfair
DAFYDD ap SIANCYN (SIENCYN) ap DAFYDD ap y CRACH (fl. mid 15th century), Lancastrian partisan and poet Descended on his father's side from Marchudd (Peniarth MS 127 (57); Powys Fadog, vi, 221), and on his mother's from prince Llywelyn ap Iorwerth (Peniarth MS 127 (105), Peniarth MS 129 (128, 130); Dwnn, ii, 102, 132) - she was Margred, daughter of Rhys Gethin, partisan of Owain Glyn Dwr (on him see Lloyd, Owen Glendower, 66). His exploits during the Wars of the Roses are related in Sir John Wynn's
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
DAGGAR, GEORGE (1879 - 1950), trade unionist and Member of Parliament
DALTON, EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE (BARON DALTON), (1887 - 1962), economist and politician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, the son of Canon John Neale and Catherine Alicia Dalton, on 26 August 1887. His father had been tutor to King George V when Prince of Wales and he was a Canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor from 1885 until his death in 1931. His mother was the daughter of Charles Evans-Thomas of Gnoll House, Neath. Hugh Dalton was educated at Summer Fields, Oxford, and Eton before
DANIELS, ELEANOR (1886 - 1994), actress the London Victoria College of Music and Drama in 1910, she attended Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Academy of Drama in 1912, winning the gold medal for elocution. The same year she had the honour of reciting at the Carmarthenshire Dinner held at the Criterion in London in honour of the Right Honourable Lloyd George, for which she was highly commended. In 1913 she was tempted to transfer her allegiance
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DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman candidate in the 1943 University of Wales parliamentary by-election, coming third behind the successful Liberal candidate W. J. Gruffydd and Saunders Lewis. He tried unsuccessfully to get the Liberal nomination for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945. In the October 1959 and 1964 general elections he was the Liberal candidate for Carmarthenshire, but the sitting Labour MP Lady Megan Lloyd
DAVIES, Sir ALFRED THOMAS (1861 - 1949), the first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education of the Denbighshire County Council and its Education Committee. After his retirement from the Board, though he lived in England, he continued to interest himself in Welsh matters, founding the Ceiriog Memorial Institute at Glyn Ceiriog, and publishing (in addition to numerous pamphlets) two biographical volumes: O.M. (a memoir of Sir Owen M. Edwards; 1946) and The Lloyd George I knew (1948). He was
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator Caryl Davies was born in Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 26 September 1926, the eldest child of the minister William Glyn Jones (1883-1958) and his wife Mabel (née Williams Lloyd, born 1897). They married in 1925 and had a son and two further daughters. After attending Porth county school, Caryl graduated with first-class honours in French in 1946 and later with honours in philosophy from the University

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