Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM (1816 - 1884), Independent minister and ecclesiastical historian , was published in 1863. He had collected a great deal of material for a larger work on the history of Nonconformity in Essex, but died 11 April 1884 before this was completed. THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS DAVIDS (1843 - 1922), professor of comparative religion and an authority on Buddhism, was his son.
DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS (1843 - 1922), professor of comparative religion - see DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet the future of Wales's culture only seemed to intensify his love for it. He transferred his passion to the two poets to whom he was a mentor, Elin ap Hywel and the present author, who were both pupils of his at different times at Yale College. His literary reticence and social reclusiveness in his last thirty years were regretted by his many friends. Looking back at his life in his final years, he
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, DAVID STEPHEN (1841 - 1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist , penniless. It was rumoured in the U.S.A. that they had all been drowned, and a memorial service was held for D. S. Davies, and obituary notices were published. Four months later he returned from the colony to Wales and, in 1875, was invited to become minister of Ebenezer, Bangor, in succession to Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan, 1809 - 1880). He went to New York to fetch his family and there arranged for a third
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph The son of Dafydd ap Robert of Caerhun, a descendant, through Sir Gruffydd Llwyd (lord of Dinorwig), of Ednyfed Fychan. The date of his birth is variously given as 1512 (Strype, Ann., I, i, 371), 1515 (Griffith, Pedigrees), and 1537 (Browne Willis, A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of St. Asaph, 1801 ed., i, 104). The first is the probable date, the last impossible. He was educated at Oxford and
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer the series, ' Cyfres Pobun ', 1944-50. His boys' stories which appeared in Y Winllan were later published as books. The first, Hunangofiant Tomi (1912), became very popular. It was followed by Nedw (1922), Rhys Llwyd y lleuad (1925), and Y Doctor Bach (1930). He published many books for children on legendary and Biblical characters, and an adaptation of the Welsh translation of Pilgrim's Progress
DAVIES, ELLIS THOMAS (1822 - 1895), Independent minister Born March 1822 at Tŷ Mawr, Pennantlliw Bach, Llanuwchllyn, a home celebrated in the history of the local Independent connexion. His father was an elder in the 'Old Chapel,' and Ap Vychan (Robert Thomas, 1809 - 1880) lived with him as a shepherd boy for seven years, a period which, as he acknowledged, had a lasting influence on him. E. T. Davies began to preach about 1842 at the same time as
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet -68. He served his apprenticeship as a poet in 'Pabell Awen', the bardic column of Y Cymro under the tutorship of Dewi Emrys (David Emrys James) and came under the influence of R. Williams Parry at Bangor and Edward Prosser Rhys at Aberystwyth. He won many prizes at eisteddfodau including some at the National Eisteddfod In addition to his service as a caring and loved minister he became known to a
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister amusing stories of his warm but good-humoured theological disputations with the colliers. Styling himself ' Ieuan ap Dewi,' he wrote much on theology to Seren Gomer, published a book Rhifedi ac Undod Duw (Cardiff, 1846), and started in 1827 a serial Family Doctor, which fell flat. He died 22 October 1850 (Enw. F.). His wife, CATHERINE NAUNTON, was a daughter of David Naunton (1777 - 1849), Baptist
DAVIES, HOWEL (c. 1716 - 1770), Methodist cleric Woodstock chapel (near Ambleston) in 1755 and Capel Newydd (near Boncath) in 1763. He was a persuasive evangelist. Rhys Thomas of Carmarthen published one of his sermons in 1762 under the title Llais y Durtur, etc., and another in 1768 under the title Llais y Priodfab, etc. Among the Methodists he was called, not without reason, the 'Apostle of Pembrokeshire.'

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