Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, CHARLES (1849 - 1927), Baptist minister Born at Llwynhendy, 3 November 1849, son of Daniel and Margaret Davies. He studied at the Graig Academy, Swansea, a grammar school managed by G. P. Evans, minister of York Place, Swansea, and was later admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen. He was ordained in 1870 and accepted charge of Penuel, Bangor. In 1877 he moved to Liverpool to take charge of Everton Village Baptist church; in 1888
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire , were proverbial. He used to send a truck of coal to his friends at Tregaron every winter, earmarking tons for distribution among the poor of the town. He contributed largely to the Welsh periodical press, particularly to Calvinistic Methodist papers and to Y Brython, 1861-3, Y Geninen, and Cymru (O.M.E.), on the topography and local history of Cardiganshire and Glamorgan, on religious life, biography
DAVIES, DAVID CHARLES (1826 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College 1848, and graduated M.A. in 1849. His career as a preacher started in his home church (Tabernacle, Aberystwyth) in 1848. In 1850 he was admitted to membership of the South Wales Association and was its assistant secretary for two years. He was ordained at Llanelly in 1852, and held temporary or fixed pastorates at the following: Newtown (English), 1850, Alpha church, Builth (1851-3), and again (1856
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES (1893 - 1956), economist folk school in Ireland in 1924-25, he entered U.C.W., Aberystwyth, where he graduated (B.A.) in economics in 1928, M.A. (1930), Ph.D. (1931). He won several prizes at the national eisteddfod on political and economic subjects (1930, 1931, 1932 - an essay which was published as The economic history of South Wales prior to 1800 (1933) - and 1933). He became a leading member of Plaid Cymru and rendered
DAVIES, EDWARD (1796 - 1857), Independent minister and college tutor the Academy was moved to Newtown, where Lewis died in 1822; Davies was thought too young to be placed in charge, but was made theology tutor, with Samuel Bowen as colleague. Bowen resigned in 1830, and Davies carried on alone, under great difficulties, till 1839, when the Academy was removed to Brecon and renamed 'Brecon Independent College'; even then he was not made principal. He died 25 February
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer entered Didsbury College, Manchester. He served his ministry at Abergele, Leeds, Menai Bridge, Port Dinorwic, Tregarth (thrice), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbigh, Manchester (twice), Liverpool, Bangor and Coedpoeth. In 1908 he married Jane Eleanor (Nel) Evans, Gwynlys Shop, Bwlchgwyn, and they had 3 children: Dyddgu, Arfor and Gwen. He retired in 1946 because of his wife's illness and moved to Bangor
DAVIES, ELLIS (1872 - 1962), priest and antiquarian died 3 April 1962 at Bryn Derwen, Caerwys, Flintshire, and was survived by 3 sons and 3 daughters.
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 3 July 1951 and her ashes were interred at Llandinam.
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales , and at Rawdon College. There he won the Pegg Scholarship which enabled him to enter Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated. Whilst at Oxford he edited The Baptist Outlook. In 1906 he was ordained minister at Broadhaven, Pembrokeshire, and the same year he married (1) Annie Margaretta Davies but she died 3 December 1906 and their baby son died four months later; they were buried in Cwmifor (B
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Testamentum, III. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1955, pp. xi-xix;'Contemporary Religious Trends: The Old Testament', The Expository Times, LXVII, I (October, 1955), pp. 3-7; Joint editor with Alan Richardson, The Teacher's Commentary, London, SCM Press, 1955. Published in America as The Twentieth Century Bible Commentary, Harper and Brothers, 1956; 'The Literature of the Old Testament' and 'Exodus' in The Teacher's
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister , and died at Gwernllwyn Isaf, 29 April 1760. The diaries of Philip David of Penmain under 3 May, have a rueful reference to his former great popularity and the disesteem into which he had fallen through instability and time-serving; and Edmund Jones (15 August 1773) refers tersely to him as 'an apostate' - it would also seem from this passage that a daughter of James Davies's had married David
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist Rhondda valley and Plaid Cymru. He died 25 August 1952, and was buried in the cemetery of Llether Ddu, Trealaw. A plaque on the wall of Llwynpïod chapel in memory of him was unveiled on 3 September 1977, and in 1980 an anthology of his chief works was published.

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