Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician adopted daughter of Morgan Davies, a doctor with a popular practice among the London Welsh and who contributed frequently, under the pseudonym ' Teryll y Bannau ', to Welsh newspapers. Clement and Jano Davies had three sons and a daughter; they lost three of the children, each at the age of twenty-four; one son died in an accident and the daughter took her own life; only one son survived. Jano Davies
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire Eldest son of David Davies, bootmaker, Tregaron, generally known as David Davies, Camer-fach, a noted elder at the Bwlchgwynt (C.M.) chapel. His mother was Mary, daughter of David Jones, Dolau Bach, one of the most celebrated of elders at Llangeitho. He was born in the spring of 1840 at Tan-yr-odyn, Tregaron, and brought up in a house on Doldre. Educated at a school kept by Morgan Morgan, Pen-y
DAVIES, DAVID (d. 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister A native, it would seem, of Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire. He went to the Academy (then at Swansea) in 1786, but in 1787 was ordained pastor of the churches of Capel Sul (Kidwelly) and Pen-y-graig. In 1790 he moved to Holywell, and was there till 1800. There he brought out a magazine, Y Geirgrawn (nine numbers, February - October 1796), in succession to the Cylchgrawn of Morgan John Rhys. It was
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician king William IV and Adelaide. He was knighted by Victoria soon after she ascended the throne. Davies married, on 8th February 1819, Letitia Maria, daughter of John Williams ('yr hen Syr,' 1745/6 - 1818); they had four children - (a) Samuel Price; (b) (Sir) Robert Henry (1824 - 1902), officer in the Indian Civil Service, mainly in the Punjab - from 1871 to 1877 he was governor of that province - he
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) . From 1919 David Davies was equally tireless in the pursuit of international peace, carrying on the tradition of the Welsh pioneers Richard Price, Robert Owen, and Henry Richard. A founder of the League of Nations Union, he later gained prominence as the foremost advocate of strengthening the League of Nations by the creation of an International Police Force. In 1932 he established the New
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter Born in the hamlet of Treguff (Tregof) in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire, in 1812 or 1813 (his age was given as 31 when he reached Tasmania in July 1844). His father is said to have been John Davies, a tenant of the duke of Beaufort. It would seem that he was dead at the time of Dai's transportation, but Dai's mother, Mary, his brothers, William and Morgan, and his sisters Ellen Jane
DAVIES, DAVID LLOYD (Dewi Glan Peryddon; 1830 - 1881), poet, singer, etc. emigrated to the U.S.A., his novel, 'Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Dwylliedig' (with its background in Cwm Hirnant near his birthplace), was published serially in Y Drych (Utica) in 1870; he also won prizes for poems at eisteddfodau held in Kansas (1870), Hyde Park, Pa., Arvonia (1872), Utica (1875), and Youngstown (1880). He died, penniless, 23 January 1881, at Oak Hill farm, Waterville, and was buried in
DAVIES, DAVID VAUGHAN (1911 - 1969), anatomist was during this time that he came under the tutelage of the Professor of Clinical Anatomy, another Welshman, Henry Albert Harris (1886-1968) who had a profound influence on his life. He graduated MB, BS and MRCS, LRCP in 1935 and spent a year as temporary medical officer in the RAF, subsequently becoming a demonstrator in the Anatomy Department at Cambridge (1936) where Harris had been made
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer Dyffryn Ceiriog, and thence in 1879 to Trefriw, where he remained till his death. Though he became (1914) moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association, he is best remembered as a most diligent writer and editor. For more than thirty years he was co-editor (with John Morgan Jones, 1838 - 1921) of Y Lladmerydd. He edited the works of Tafolog (Richard Davies, 1830 - 1904), wrote the biography of Joseph
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Davies's to Griffith Jones (Welch Piety, 7 August 1741). And the diaries (NLW MS 5456A) of Thomas Morgan of Henllan (1720 - 1799), who in his student days was on very good terms with Evan Davies, show that in March 1744 Griffith Jones and Evan Davies were jointly concerting measures to check the spread of Methodism in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen.
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

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