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DAVID (bu farw 1139?), bishop of Bangor After the removal of Hervé there is a gap in the history of this see; no bishop was recognized by Canterbury until 1120. In that year, Gruffudd ap Cynan, now on good terms with the king, wrote to the archbishop, saying that one David had been chosen by himself and the clergy and people of Wales, with the royal assent, and asking that he should be consecrated. The request was granted; on 4 April
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher from 1980 onwards, and it now no longer exists. Llyfrau'r Dryw was responsible for the successful 'Crwydro Cymru' series of travel books, to which Aneirin himself contributed three excellent volumes, Crwydro Sir Gâr (1955) and Crwydro Bro Morgannwg in two volumes (1972 and 1976). In 1962 the two brothers established a new Welsh magazine, Barn. Aneirin was its editor for a while, and contributed a
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1826 - 1905), Baptist minister, writer, and printer edition is preserved in Bristol Baptist College, and Davies now translated it into Welsh, adding supplementary information. It is in the form which Davies gave it that modern researchers (including the writers in the present dictionary) use and cite Joshua Thomas's book.
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet , namely the vocabulary of poetry itself, with 'the poem' standing as a symbol of creativity and of virtue against philistinism and despair. His third volume, Deuoliaethau, ('Dualities') appeared in 1976, the culmination of the work of the previous five years; it showed how the poet's experience of geographical fragmentation had now stabilised into an internal symbolic landscape. The volume is divided
DAVIES, CHARLES NICE (1794 - 1842), Independent minister and college tutor the boy (of 12) an ensign. Both went out (1808) to India, where the lad displayed a remarkable talent for learning languages. The step-father was killed, and the young man (now a lieutenant) wounded, at Mysore in 1814; but he recovered to take part in the Peninsular War. Returning to England, he married, and took to religion; he began preaching in 1820, and was minister at several places in England
DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools (1826 - 1872) at Swansea, but was in 1868 made assistant inspector of schools, removing in 1870 to Cheltenham and in 1877 to Bristol. In 1882 (though his actual removal took place in 1883) he was posted to the Merthyr Tydfil district (under William Edwards, 1851 - 1940), but lived at Cardiff. His exile had deepened his love for Welsh, and he now sought to have it taught (not merely used) in the
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES (1893 - 1956), economist months before the Welsh Nationalist Party (now Plaid Cymru) was founded in 1925, while he was unaware of the existence of a nationalist movement in Wales. He returned from Denmark a convinced nationalist in favour of an economic policy of co-operation which placed ownership and control of the means of production in the hands of the workers themselves. After an unsuccessful attempt at establishing a
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian Born 6 February 1875 in Glanrhyd, Cwrtnewydd, Cardiganshire. The house is now called ' Langro ', and has a small plaque on it to mark his birthplace. He was one of the two sons of Evan Davies, blacksmith, and his wife Elizabeth (née James). He was educated in the village school and from the age of 14 until he went to University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1894, he was a pupil teacher there
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer lessons on the organ by Dr. Roland Rogers. He was advised to apply for the post of minor canon at Bangor cathedral but, to his great disappointment, was unsuccessful. This decided him to concentrate on a musical career and to endeavour to realize his dream of becoming a singer. He now applied for a curacy at S. Mary's, Hoxton, London, was duly appointed, and there received sympathy and encouragement
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph superstycyons.' By 1570 he was satisfied that he had reduced the diocese to 'better order,' but asked Cecil (without effect) for an ecclesiastical commission to complete the work. Some of his own sinecures he had now resigned, but on representations from archbishop Parker he was allowed to keep those of Llanbedr, Caerhun, and his 'portion' of Llandinam, in consideration of the poverty of the see, a poverty he
DAVIES, EDWARD (Iolo Trefaldwyn; 1819 - 1887), poet and eisteddfodwr the Rhyd-y-mwyn lead works. Then, for a time, he was a coal merchant in Liverpool, but this venture failed. He now settled in Wrexham, where he became traveller for a firm of Scottish publishers. He was a faithful frequenter of eisteddfodau and a regular competitor - too regular, indeed, to produce any work of real merit. In 1870 he won the chair at the Liverpool Gordofigion eisteddfod for his
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary medal in 1820 for carving a sundial skilfully from a piece of slate. He was invited to become the first president of the Institute of Actuaries but declined. He was described as 'The father of the present race of actuaries'. He had now attained to a position of influence and power, and was able to recommend some of his countrymen for responsible posts, e.g. Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881) to become secretary

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