Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVID, JOB (1746 - 1812), General Baptist minister Born at Newton Nottage, Glamorganshire, in 1746, son of JOB DAVID (1709 - 1766), elder and afterwards assistant pastor of Pen-y-fai Baptist church near Bridgend, on whom see David Jones, Bed. Deheubarth, 549. The son went to Bristol Baptist Academy (1766-71), returned for a period to assist at Pen-y-fai, was pastor at Frome, 1773-1803, then succeeded Joshua Toulmin at Taunton, but broke down in
DAVID, JOB (1709 - 1766), pastor - see DAVID, JOB
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister Cwmllynfell. He is pretty certainly the John David who joined Henry Palmer and Rees Davies, in a letter (Trevecka letter 231) to Howel Harris, 22 March 1740. He died 22 July 1756, and was buried at Manordivy. There is an elegy (printed in the work mentioned below) upon him by Morris Griffiths. A record in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest speaks in very high terms of John David.
DAVID, PHILIP (1709 - 1787) Penmain, Independent minister Born in the Ebbw Fawr valley, Monmouthshire, 11 June 1709. His thoughts were turned to religion by the preaching of James Davies of Merthyr Tydfil (died 1760), c. 1720. He began preaching in 1732, and in 1739 was ordained co-pastor of Penmain to assist David Williams (who had been there since 1710, and remained there till his death in 1759). Philip David was then pastor till he died 3 February
DAVID, REES (fl. 1746), early Arminian Baptist of whom very little is known. According to Walter J. Evans (NLW MSS 10327B), he was at Carmarthen under Perrott; but the only similar name in Wilson's list of Perrott's students (Dr. Williams's library, copy in NLW MS 373C) is the 'Rees Davies ' who is there identified with Rees Davies of Canerw; neither identification is wholly convincing. Rees David, however, was not a minister but a
DAVID, Sir TANNATT WILLIAM EDGEWORTH (1858 - 1934), geologist and explorer Born 28 January 1858, son of William David, rector of St. Fagans, Glamorganshire. From Magdalen School he entered New College, Oxford, in 1876, with the intention of taking holy orders, and obtained a 'first' in classical moderations in 1878; but a breakdown in health diverted his course, and he took a pass degree in 1881, having in the meantime taken to geology. He began his geological career by
DAVID, THOMAS - see DAFYDD, THOMAS
DAVID, THOMAS ESSILE - see DAVIES, THOMAS ESSILE
DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM (1816 - 1884), Independent minister and ecclesiastical historian Born 11 June 1816 in Gower, where his father, a Ffald-y-brenin man and a kinsman of David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan, was minister. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his uncle, Thomas Thomas of Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire. It was intended that he should be a doctor but he insisted on following in his father's footsteps and was therefore sent to Homerton College
DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council (just eight months after the death of his wife Megan on 20 February 2005). His funeral was held on 31 October at Capel y Morfa and Aberystwyth Crematorium where his ashes were buried. A portrait of him by David Griffiths hangs at the headquarters of the Books Council at Castell Brychan, Aberystwyth.
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher . Aneirin Talfan Davies himself was a committed Christian, and in 1944 he was received into the Church in Wales. He was also a personal friend of the poet and artist David Jones, another contributor to his radio talk series, and he published their correspondence in the collection David Jones: Letters to a Friend (1979). In 1951 he began commissioning long poems for radio, and one of these was the
DAVIES, ANNIE (1910 - 1970), radio and television producer Born 16 June 1910, in Llwyngwinau House, Tregaron, third of the six children of David and Elizabeth Davies. The family kept a butcher's shop in Tregaron at the time, but when she was about a year old they moved to farm Cefngwyddil in the parish of Llanbadarn Odwyn, and in 1919 to farm Pontargamddwr in the parish of Caron-is-clawdd. She was educated at Castell Fflemish elementary school from 1915

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