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teulu CRAWSHAY, industrialists Cyfarthfa Caversham Park mansion. During his period the works grew immensely, and enormous quantities of iron were manufactured and great quantities of coal raised to feed the furnaces. His attitude during the celebrated riots at Merthyr tended to exasperate and defy the men. He left Treforest iron-works to his son FRANCIS, the Forest of Dean to HENRY, and the Cyfarthfa works to his youngest son, Robert Thompson
DAFYDD GAM (bu farw 1415), Welsh warrior Bower, he had a part in the royal victory over Owain Glyn Dŵr at Pwll Melyn, near Usk, on 5 May 1405 (Scotichronicon, ed. W. Goodall, 1759, ii, 452). This date throws doubt upon the familiar story of his treacherous attack upon Owen at the parliament of Machynlleth in 1404; it has other doubtful features, and, in any case, is not heard of until the time of Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt (died 1667). That
DAFYDD LLWYD (bu farw 1619) HENBLAS,, poet and scholar according to Dwnn). Noted for his scholarship, he is said to have known eight languages. A number of his poems, all in strict metre, have been preserved in manuscript. They include an elegy to his wife, Catherine, and three englynion to one of his sons. ' Sir ' Huw Roberts and Richard Cynwal composed elegies upon his death.
DAFYDD LLWYD ap DAFYDD ab EINION ap HYWEL (bu farw before 1469), prominent figure in Cydewain and a generous patron of the 15th century bards wife was Gwenllian, daughter of Meredith ab Owen ap Griffith ab Einion, lord of Towyn. They had two sons and a daughter, Rhys, Robert, and Ellen. RHYS AP DAFYDD LLWYD (died 1469) He was an esquire of the body to Edward IV and his steward in Cydewain, Kerry, Cyfeiliog, and Arwystli. He was also governor of Montgomery castle. He was lost in the battle of Danesmore or Banbury, 1469. An elegy by Dafydd
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, 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
DAIMOND, ROBERT (BOB) BRIAN (1946 - 2020), civil engineer and historian Bodffordd, Ynys Môn, he was admitted to the Gorsedd y Beirdd for his services to the Welsh Language and Engineering. He took the bardic name Robat Dyfnaint, or Robert Devon, in honour of his distant Devon ancestors. He promoted engineering at the National Eisteddfod's Science and Technology Pavilion and was a member of the Eisteddfod's Science Committee. In 2018 he was diagnosed with a soft tissue sarcoma
DANIEL, DAVID ROBERT (1859 - 1931), publicist Born at Ty'n-y-bryn, Llandderfel, 6 May 1859, son of Robert Daniel and Jane, daughter of Robert Roberts. He was educated at the grammar school and the Independent College, Bala, and, after a visit to America, became in 1887 assistant organizer in North Wales for the United Kingdom Alliance. In 1896 he was appointed secretary of the North Wales Quarry-men's Union, and served for a period from 1889
DANIEL, WILLIAM RAYMOND (1928 - 1997), association football player Swansea Town, and in October 1946 signed professional forms with Arsenal, with whom his elder brother 'Bobby' Robert Norman Victor Daniel (1922-1943), had also played before he was tragically killed in action with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. Ray Daniel completed his national service between 1947 and 1949, and made his first team debut for Arsenal on 7 May 1949 in the final game of the
teulu DAVIES, smiths HUW DAVIES, smith, was living at Groes-foel, Esclusham, in the 17th century. He was buried in the churchyard at Wrexham, 2 September 1702. A handrail of exquisite design in the choir of Wrexham church and a small gate in Malpas churchyard (Cheshire) are attributed to him. He and his wife, Eleanor, had four sons, ROBERT (died 1748/9), JOHN (died 1755), Huw, and Thomas, and six daughters (Anne
DAVIES, DAVID (bu farw 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister pronouncedly Radical in its views (in it, e.g., was printed a Welsh version of the ' Marseillaise'), and Thomas Roberts of Llwyn-'rhudol (1765 - 1841) avers that Davies incurred considerable danger at the hands of the authorities. It may be that these views of his upset his congregation too, for letters in the library of the University College of North Wales (Scorpion MSS.) speak of 'unhappy
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician Son of Robert Davies, Gorwydd, Llanddewi-brefi, Cardiganshire, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of John Price, Rhosybedw, Llanwrda. David Davies was christened at Llanddewi-brefi church, 5 September 1792. Adopting the medical profession he went while still young to London; he served at Hampton, Middlesex, as assistant to one of the physicians to queen Adelaide; later he himself became physician to

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