Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Born near Lampeter, went to Hoxton Academy under Thomas Ridgeley and John Eames, F.R.S. He would seem to have kept school at Haverfordwest from 1720, and on 5 June 1723 was ordained minister of Albany church there. In 1741, on the death of Vavasor Griffiths, the ' Welsh Academy ' was moved to Haverfordwest and placed in Davies's charge; but in 1743, when he took the pastorate of the churches at
DAVIES, EVAN (Eta Delta; 1794 - 1855), Independent minister Born 1794 at Cefn, Llanbrynmair, nephew of Thomas Davies of Llanuwchllyn (minister of the ' Old Chapel ' there). He was educated at Newtown Academy and began his career as a missioner in the neighbourhood of Bilston. During the absence of its minister, J. Breese, he worked for a year at Tabernacle chapel, Liverpool. He was ordained minister at Llanrwst in 1827, moved to Llannerch-y-medd in 1834
DAVIES, EVAN (1805 - 1864), missionary under the London Missionary Society, Independent minister, and author under Dr. Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842), after which he was admitted to the Independent College (Western Academy) at Exeter. He was ordained minister of Great Torrington church, Devon, but in 1835 was accepted by the London Missionary Society and sent out to Penang in the Malacca Straits. He returned in 1840, his health having broken down. He became successively agent for the mission (1840-2
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer Thomas of Carno, a short 'Life' of Dafydd Dafis of Cywarch (1794 - 1861, a highly original preacher), a number of small religious books, and a certain amount of verse. He died 10 January 1919, aged 77.
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (Dyfrig; 1847 - 1927), cleric Son of Thomas Davies and Rachel his wife. Born. 20 June 1847 at Cwmcefn, Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire, educated at Ystrad Meurig and at S. David's College, Lampeter, where he graduated in 1869. After a year spent in teaching at Greenock, he was ordained deacon in 1870 by bishop Ollivant of Llandaff, and priest in 1871. After serving curacies at Llanwynno, Ferndale, and Betws, Glamorganshire
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (1878 - 1969), musician
DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector in those two volumes, she had the assistance of the composer Mansel Thomas, then a student at the Royal Academy of Music, in the preparation of the third. A frequent adjudicator of folk-song competitions at the National Eisteddfod, she was always keen to protect the rights of folk-song collectors over their songs and would protest when composers arranged them without the appropriate consent. She
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary of the newly established Local Government Board, and J. W. Thomas (Arfonwyson) to a place on the staff of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. In 1812 he married Mary Holbert, she died in 1836, leaving one daughter who became the wife of Samuel Dew, a solicitor of Llangefni. For his second wife he married a widow, a Mrs. Glynne. Both wives were buried at Bunhill Fields cemetery. Griffith Davies won
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (Gwyndaf; 1868 - 1962), poet, tutor of poets and antiquary Born 5 February 1868 at Llwynpïod, a smallholding in Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire. His father Griffith Davies died before he was born, and his mother experienced great hardship in bringing up her two sons, Griffith and Thomas. After attending the local school, Griffith spent some time at the famous school of Owen Owen (1850 - 1920 at Oswestry. He lived most of his long life farming Bryncaled, a
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress , particularly in France. They acquired Gregynog mansion near Newtown, just after World War I, intending it to become an arts and crafts centre for Wales. The one craft activity that came to fruition, largely through the energy of Dr. Thomas Jones was printing, and between 1923 and 1942 the Gregynog Press published forty-two titles in limited editions. Among the works, many of great beauty in typography and
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner politician, John Morris. He also became a good friend of the University's Principal, Ifor Evans, and President Dr Thomas Jones. He was disappointed in the Republican Movement, because the medium of debate was English and because they supported Ithel Davies rather than Trefor Morgan as parliamentary candidate in Ogmore in 1950. He withdrew from them, and when the Movement's days came to an end he decided to
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1950, pp. 37-51; The Approach to the Old Testament. An Inaugural Lecture delivered on May 15, 1953, to the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham: London, The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1953; 'Select Bibliography of the Writings of Harold Henry Rowley', in Wisdom in Israel and the Ancient Near East, H. H. Rowley Festschrft, eds., M. Noth and D. W. Thomas; Supplements to Vetus

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