Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig

DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer Born Ceridwen Lloyd on 24 September 1900 in Griffithstown, Pontypool, she was the eldest of the five children of Herbert Davies Lloyd, a foundry worker born in Ebbw Vale, and his wife Ceridwen, born in Blaenafon. She received her education at the Pontypool High School for Girls and at the University College in Cardiff, where she took the degree of Mus. Bac. in 1921, becoming only the second woman
DAVIES, Sir DANIEL THOMAS (1899 - 1966), physician serum in the treatment of pneumonia. His article on ' Gastric secretions of old age ' which he published in conjunction with Lloyd James is considered a classic. He published several medical books, including a standard work on pneumonia and books on peptic ulcers and anaemia. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society. In 1938 he became physician to the royal family. He was physician to King George
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) of age as Liberal member for Montgomeryshire, resigning his seat in 1929. In World War I, he raised and commanded the 14th Battalion, the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at home and in France until 1916, when he was appointed Parliamentary Secretary to David Lloyd George. His name will be inseparably connected with his two main public interests-the Welsh campaign against tuberculosis and the international
DAVIES, DAVID LLOYD (Dewi Glan Peryddon; 1830 - 1881), poet, singer, etc.
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian D.J. de Lloyd the music, of Forty Welsh traditional tunes (1929). He contributed regularly to The Welsh Gazette over a period of about 60 years, and also to Yr Ymofynnydd, Y Genhinen and The Western Mail (see Glyn Lewis Jones, A bibliography of Cardiganshire, 1600-1964, (1967) and the Supplement, 1964-8 (1970) for a bibliography of much of his work). When he was 88 years old he published Chwedlau ac
DAVIES, EDWARD (1796 - 1857), Independent minister and college tutor Born 13 March 1796 at Ashton, Salop, but brought up at Wrexham and educated at a grammar school at Chester; he was a protégé of William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840), at whose suggestion he began preaching. Entering Llanfyllin Academy, then under George Lewis (1763 - 1822), in 1817, he was appointed student-assistant in 1818 and classical tutor in 1819; he married Lewis's daughter Sara. In 1821
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse into the household of her father's landlord, Simon Lloyd of Plas-yn-dre, where she was kindly treated and learnt dancing and harp-playing, she ran away to Liverpool at 14 (her dates, be it said, are very sketchy throughout), and became a domestic servant, keeping however in the closest touch with the Welsh C.M. church in the city. Her employer's travels enabled her to see Mrs. Siddons acting at
DAVIES, ELLIS WILLIAM (1871 - 1939), solicitor and politician Caernarfonshire, in succession to John Bryn Roberts, and retained his seat until 1918. During this period he was a member of the departmental committee on landed estates (1911), departmental committee on the jury system (1911), Lloyd George's land enquiry committee (1912), the Speaker's conference on reforming the electoral system (1916), the departmental committee concerned with the right of public authorities
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (1878 - 1969), musician Born 10 April 1878 at 41 Pontmorlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, son of George (a barber whose shop was in South Street, Dowlais), and Gwenllian (née Samuel) his wife. He was brought up in Dowlais, but moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1904. His parents were musical; his father was precentor in Hermon, Dowlais, for nearly a quarter of a century, and his mother was a good singer, a descendant of the
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD (1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace in the cause of peace -in arbitrating between David Lloyd George and Eamonn de Valera, for example. He was not returned in the following election and in 1926 he was ordained a minister in the Pres. Church of Wales. He was pastor of the churches at Tywyn and Maethlon from 1926 to 1930. He then responded to the appeal for help from the distressed areas of south Wales and spent the following years
DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector attraction. Lloyd George and other prominent politicians were regular visitors to Graianfryn. Grace and her husband took a great interest in Welsh folk-song, and she had been one of the soloists at the inaugural meeting of the Welsh Folk-Song Society at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod in 1906. Both she and Robert were elected to the Council of the Society on its formation in March 1909, and were members
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Cardiff Magistrates' Court entirely through the medium of Welsh. He was appointed Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board in 1968 and did great work for the health service, fighting for recognition of the Welsh language and often clashing with the Secretary of State for Wales, George Thomas. The Board was dissolved in 1974 and in the same year he was invited to serve as special adviser to John Morris and

Canlyniadau chwilio

73 - 84 of 923 for "Lloyd George"