Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (1878 - 1969), musician University College, Bangor, where he was responsible for numerous musical activities, and collaborated with (Henry) Walford Davies, Aberystwyth, to enhance knowledge of music in a wide area under the auspices of the university's Council of Music. In 1943 he retired and moved to Aberdare, where he spent the rest of his life composing, adjudicating and broadcasting. He first came into prominence as a
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet Born in Liverpool 21 February 1916, but brought up in Ro-wen, in the Conwy Valley, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Ro-wen primary school and Llanrwst grammar school. He worked for a time in the office of Henry Jones, solicitor at Llanrwst. He began to preach in the Calvinistic Methodist connexion and followed further education at Clwyd College, the University College, Bangor, and the
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress supervision of Sir (Henry) Walford Davies, who was also chiefly responsible for the concerts, which culminated in the annual Festivals of Music and Poetry between 1933 and 1938. The sisters were members of the Gregynog Choir that sang on these occasions, and visitors included Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams. The National Council of Music for Wales had been to a considerable extent funded by the sisters
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1950, pp. 37-51; The Approach to the Old Testament. An Inaugural Lecture delivered on May 15, 1953, to the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham: London, The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1953; 'Select Bibliography of the Writings of Harold Henry Rowley', in Wisdom in Israel and the Ancient Near East, H. H. Rowley Festschrft, eds., M. Noth and D. W. Thomas; Supplements to Vetus
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister chronological data. Henry Davies's itinerating coincided with the earliest phase of Welsh Methodism, and (possibly owing to local contacts) he allied himself heartily with it. He was one of the Dissenters who invited Howel Harris to Glamorgan; he visited Trevecka; indeed, his co-operation with Methodism lasted longer than did that of any other of the early Dissenting friends of the movement if we except
DAVIES, HENRY, doctor - see DAVIES, HENRY
DAVIES, HENRY (1753 - 1825), Baptist minister 1788) baptized John Richard Jones 'of Ramoth '. The French landing near Fishguard (1797) brought him trouble. Despite the fact that the invaders raided his farm and menaced his person, he was charged with 'collaboration,' and though the charge was dropped, his effigy was burnt at Fishguard fair on 2 February 1798. He died 9 May 1825, and was buried in Hermon burial ground, Fishguard. His son, HENRY
DAVIES, HENRY JONES - see JONES-DAVIES, HENRY
DAVIES, HENRY NAUNTON (1827 - 1899), physician - see DAVIES, HENRY
DAVIES, HENRY REES (1861 - 1940), antiquary son of Richard Davies (1818 - 1896), and (as his name suggests) grandson of Henry Rees, was born at Menai Bridge 5 December 1861, and graduated in the natural sciences tripos from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1884. He became a figure in the public life of Anglesey (county councillor, J.P., D.L., sheriff) and also in the affairs of the University College at Bangor, of which he was vice-president
DAVIES, Sir HENRY WALFORD (1869 - 1941), musician
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister A native of Llanedy parish, Carmarthenshire, educated at Carmarthen Academy. In 1712 he was ordained minister of Troed-rhiw-dalar and Llanwrtyd. Thence he removed in 1724 to the pastorate of Cwm-y-glo, between Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare; it was a joint pastorate with the distant congregation of Cefn Arthen near Llandovery (they had a common origin in the ' Brecknockshire church ' of Henry

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