DAVIES
,
DAVID LLOYD
(
Dewi Glan Peryddon
); d.
1881
;
poet, singer, etc.
, in
Wales
and
U.S.A.
;
b. at
Llwyn Einion
, near
Bala
, brother to
John
Davies
(
Einion Ddu
), he became prominent as an
eisteddfodic entertainer
and
baritone singer
both in
Wales
and in the
U.S.A
. A product of ‘
Cymdeithas Lenyddol Meirion
,’ he won several prizes at local and other eisteddfodau in
Wales
(and afterwards in
America
), including the national eisteddfod of
1865
; he won the
chair
at
Bethesda, Caerns.
,
1867
, for an
awdl
on ‘
Tywyllwch
’ (Darkness). Some
englynion
composed when he was 16 were published in
Yr Amserau
over the pseudonym of
Dewi Einion
. He was also a skilled
writer of satirical and humorous verse
, and contributed much material of that nature to
Y Wasg Americanaidd
; he was the
editor
of the ‘
Lloffion Difyrus
’ feature in that newspaper, and in ‘
Y Cwpwrdd Cornel
’ column of the same paper he gave vivid descriptions of some
Merioneth
‘characters’ whom he had known when he lived in
Wales
, and of life in the
Bala
district, including an account of some contemporary minor
poets
in
Bala
and district. In the 50s and 60s of the 19th cent. he
conducted choirs
in the
Llwyn Einion
,
Llanfachreth
,
Rhyd-y-main
, and
Towyn
districts of
Merioneth
; he also
composed some music
. After he had emigrated to the
U.S.A.
, his novel, ‘
Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Dwylliedig
’ (with its background in
Cwm Hirnant
near his birthplace), was published serially in
Y Drych
(
Utica
)
in
1870
; he also won prizes for poems at eisteddfodau held in
Kansas
(
1870
),
Hyde Park, Pa.
,
Arvonia
(
1872
),
Utica
(
1875
), and
Youngstown
(
1880
). He d., penniless,
23 Jan. 1881
, at
Oak Hill farm
,
Waterville
, and was buried in the
Ottawa cemetery
, near
Donsman
,
Wisconsin
.
Bibliography:
-
Y Cerddor Cymreig
, 1861-1873
,
1864-8
;
-
D. J. Williams
,
The Welsh Community of Waukesha County,
Wisconsin
, Columbus, Ohio, 1926
, (Columbus, Ohio,
1926
);
- Tecwyn Ellis, , 2000;
- manuscript in the possession of the writer.
Author:
Robert (Bob) Owen, O.B.E., M.A., (1885-1962), Croesor
