Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JENKIN (1798 - 1842), Calvinistic Methodist minister of his life; he was a remarkable preacher, acceptable in all parts of Wales and London; and such men as Henry Rees and Lewis Edwards held him in very high esteem. He died 10 August 1842. There is a short biography of him by Abel Green and J. Hugh Jones (Newcastle Emlyn, 1845). He was married and had a family.
DAVIES, JOHN (1625 - 1693), translator his friend Henry Turberville.
DAVIES, JOHN (1760 - 1843), Calvinistic Methodist minister His originality cannot be exemplified here, but there is a short biography by T. Parry (Chester, 1844) which includes Davies's autobiography - see Henry Rees's remarks on it in Y Drysorfa, 1844, 151. Born 1 October 1760 at Glythan Uchaf, Henllan, Denbighshire, his only education was a 'Madam Bevan' school. He was converted in 1778 by a sermon preached by John Evans of Cil-y-cwm (1737? - 1784
DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1750 - 1821), Methodist cleric Born about 1750, son of Henry Davies, curate of Penarth (died 1723), and grandson of John Davies, curate of Llanddarog and Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire., from 1719 to 1762 (who was a friend of Howel Harris; letters written by him may be found in Welch Piety). John Davies was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids in 1773 and priest in 1774; he was curate of Abernant and Conwil from 1775 to
DAVIES, JOHN GLYN (1870 - 1953), scholar, songwriter and poet (1892-95), with Henry Tate and Sons (1895-96) and then with the Mines Corporation of New Zealand (1896-98). After returning home (via the U.S.A.) he was persuaded by Thomas Edward Ellis and others to bring together a Welsh library at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, which could later form the nucleus of a National Library of Wales. He commenced the task at Aberystwyth in 1899, but after
DAVIES, MARY (1855 - 1930), singer Born in London, 27 February 1855, daughter of William Davies (Mynorydd, 1826 - 1901). Her singing at the Welsh concerts in the capital brought her into prominence while she was still young; her first teachers were Henry Brinley Richards and Megan Watts Hughes. She joined the Welsh Choral Union which was then under the conductorship of John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia, 1826 - 1913), and, in 1873 won a
DAVIES, RICHARD (1818 - 1896), M.P. rather as a symbolic figure than on personal grounds. As he (and his family) exemplified the new free-trade economic order, so also in politics he, like his colleague David Williams (1799 - 1869 in Merioneth, became an almost legendary symbol of the new Liberal Nonconformist middle class, whose ascendancy in Wales was to last into the 20th century. He married, 1855, Anne, daughter of Henry Rees, and
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian the influence on the author of the grammars used by the bards of the 15th and 16th century, the works of William Owen Pughe, and the Egluryn Phraethineb of Henry Perri but there is also abundant evidence of Bardd Nantglyn's own study of the subject. At the end of the book the author printed the rules of Welsh prosody, which had been formulated by Dafydd Ddu Eryri (David Thomas, 1759 - 1822) and
DAVIES, Sir ROBERT HENRY (1824 - 1902), governor of the Punjab - see DAVIES, Sir DAVID
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman Rose Davies was born at 43 Cardiff Street, Aberdare in the Cynon Valley on 16 September 1882, the daughter of William Henry Rees, a local tin worker, and his wife Fanny (née Berry). She was one of seven children, six of whom became teachers. In 1896 she became a monitor at the Aberdare Town National School, and was then apprenticed as a pupil teacher there, subsequently becoming an assistant
DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1871 - 1940), poet and author
DAVIES, WILLIAM HUBERT (1893 - 1965), musician Born 24 May 1893 at Abersychan, Monmouthshire, and educated at West Monmouth Grammar School, Pontypool. At the age of fifteen he won a Sainton open scholarship to study the violin at the Royal Academy of Music; he was a pupil of Hans Wessely and later at Dresden of Leopold Auer. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the string trio which was formed by Henry Walford Davies at the University College

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