Dictionary of welsh biography

This template is used to provide a link to the online version of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) containing details of over 5, biographies of individuals associated with Wales.

Note: The shortcut version is "Cite DWB", not "DWB" as that template is used for something else.

Usage

Required parameters

• id: Extracted from the last section of the URL: ##-####-###-####
• title: Title of the entry, e. g. EDWARDS, WILLIAM ( - ), Independent minister, and architect

Optional parameters

Additional information for the title:

• first: First name(s) of the entry's author. For multiple authors use first1, first2 etc. with the corresponding last1, last2, and author-link1, author-link2.
• last: Last name of the entry's author.
• author-link: Name of article on author. See Dictionary of Welsh Biography for a list of notable contributors.
• year or date:
• access-date: the date a Wikipedia editor retrieved information from the Dictionary of We

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  The creation of a Dictionary of Welsh Biography, claims Emrys Jones in his preface to this volume, ‘has been the Cymmrodorion Society’s greatest gift to Welsh scholarship’. His claim rests on a solid foundation. Over some seventy years the scores of scholars involved in the Welsh National Biography project have assembled, by meticulous research and in some cases from personal knowledge, a veritable treasure trove of information that has been published in three Welsh-language and two English-language volumes by the Cymmrodorion.

  The volumes are a kaleidoscope: authors, ministers, landowners, industrialists, politicians, soldiers, architects, musicians are to be found in its pages. It is fitting that among them are the biographies of four men closely involved with the biography project. Sir John Cecil-Williamsbecame honorary secretary of the Cymmrodorion and was the driving force behind the publishing of the DWB. The historian Sir John Edward Lloyd was, in addition to being Registrar and Professor of History at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and the author of distinguished historical works, the first editor of the Dictionary. Sir William Llewelyn Davies succeeded Sir John Ballinger as National Librarian and was the Dictionary’s Associate Editor. However, the emb

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