Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) Born 11 May 1880, only son of Edward Davies and Mary, daughter of Evan Jones, a Calvinistic Methodist minister who was closely related to John Jones of Talysarn (1796 - 1857. He was the grandson of David Davies (1818 - 1890, the Welsh industrialist of the Victorian period, whose energy and enterprise he inherited. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, he entered the House of Commons at 26 years
DAVIES, DAVID (1818 - 1890) Llandinam, industrialist and Member of Parliament University College of Wales at Aberystwyth and in 1875 was elected treasurer, a post which he held till 1887. He was returned unopposed in 1889 to represent Llandinam on the first Montgomeryshire county council. In 1851 Davies married Margaret Jones, of Llanfair Caereinion. They had one child, EDWARD (1852 - 1898). Davies died 20 July 1890. Davies was a 'self-made' capitalist in an age of expansion. The
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter statement: 'I taught them to sing at church.' In 1843 he is said to have been a 'contractor' at Pontyates or Pontyberem, that is, he acted as a middleman between a number of workmen and the pit owners, and 'Shoni Sgubor-fawr' (John Jones, c.1810-1867) may have been in his employment. In the autumn of 1843 he was associated with 'Shoni' in various acts of incendiarism and gatebreaking, and, like 'Shoni
DAVIES, DAVID (1810 - 1875), musician published in Llyfr Emynau a Thonau (Stephen and Jones), 1868.
DAVIES, DAVID EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire new county record of 274 in their opening stand against Leicestershire in 1937. He set yet another record in 1948 when he and Willie Jones added 313 runs for the third wicket at Brentwood against Essex. In 1935 Emrys Davies became the first Glamorgan player to achieve the double of scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season: the same feat was achieved in 1937 when he scored 1,954
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian D.J. de Lloyd the music, of Forty Welsh traditional tunes (1929). He contributed regularly to The Welsh Gazette over a period of about 60 years, and also to Yr Ymofynnydd, Y Genhinen and The Western Mail (see Glyn Lewis Jones, A bibliography of Cardiganshire, 1600-1964, (1967) and the Supplement, 1964-8 (1970) for a bibliography of much of his work). When he was 88 years old he published Chwedlau ac
DAVIES, EDWARD (Celtic Davies; 1756 - 1831), cleric and author Born 7 June 1756 in a farm called Hendre Einion in the parish of Llanfareth, Radnorshire. He was educated by some clergymen who lived near his home, and in 1774 spent a year in Christ College school, Brecon, then under David Griffith (1726 - 1816), Theophilus Jones was his schoolmate. He became a schoolmaster at Hay, and in 1779 was ordained deacon; he served as curate in several places in that
DAVIES, EDWARD OWEN (1864 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author William and Catherine Jones, Tyrol, Aigburth Drive, Liverpool. In 1910 he resumed pastoral work as minister of Siloh chapel, Llandudno. In 1913 he delivered the 'Davies Lecture' at the general assembly on 'The Miracles of Jesus'; in 1919 he took up the post of general secretary of the reconstruction commission of the North Wales Association. His work for the commission culminated in the guidance through
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer , where she died in 1948. He died 9 October 1967, and was buried in Gelli cemetery, Tregarth. Although he never had a Welsh lesson at school nor went to university, he became one of the most prolific writers in Welsh. He benefited from his friendship with Ifor Williams, T. Gwynn Jones, David Thomas (Bangor, 1880 - 1967) and other writers. He was editor of Y Winllan, 1920-28; Yr Efrydydd, 1931-35; and
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher literature of Wales was his reissue, in some cases with considerable and valuable additions, of out-of-print Welsh county histories. These included two editions of A History of the County of Brecknock, by Theophilus Jones (a reprint, two vols. in one, 1898, and the 'Glanusk edition,' four vols., 1909-30, of which Davies edited and published vols. i-iii); The History and Antiquities of the County of
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Edinburgh, and to visit several Continental countries in 1815-16. Returning to Bala, she again ran away, to Chester, and thence (to escape marriage) to London, where she stayed for a while under the roof of John Jones of Glan-y-gors (1766 - 1821), with whom she claimed 'distant kinship.' As domestic servant in the house of a fashionable tailor, she was able to combine zealous attendance at her chapel with
DAVIES, ELLIS THOMAS (1822 - 1895), Independent minister Michael D. Jones, son of Michael Jones, minister of the ' Old Chapel,' and it was the latter who taught the two at his school at Weirglodd Wen from which Davies went to Brecon College. In 1847 he received a call to minister to the churches at Llansantsiôr and Moelfre and was ordained the following year. Before long he took charge of the church at Abergele, where he remained until he retired in 1887. For

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