Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, HUMPHREY (d. 1635), vicar of Darowen, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts
DAVIES, HYWEL (1919 - 1965), broadcaster Born in Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 2 February 1919, one of the four children of Ben Davies, Congl. minister and Sarah his wife. He was educated at Llandeilo grammar school and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated M.A. with honours in English literature. He first intended becoming a business man and was employed by the Lewis Co. of Manchester, but in 1942 he became an announcer and news
DAVIES, IDRIS (1905 - 1953), miner, schoolmaster and poet Born 6 January 1905 at 16 Field Street, Rhymney, Monmouthshire, the Welsh -speaking son of colliery winderman Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. After leaving the local school at the age of fourteen, for the next seven years he worked underground as a miner in the nearby Abertysswg and Rhymney Mardy Pits. After an accident in which he lost a finger at the coalface, and active participation
DAVIES, IEUAN REES - see REES-DAVIES, IEUAN
DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician He was born on 9 June 1910, the son of Jeffrey Davies, a lay preacher with the Welsh Independents and church secretary, and Elizabeth Jane Davies his wife. He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, Swansea Technical College and Ruskin College, Oxford where he gained the Oxford Diploma in Economics and Politics. He remained especially interested in adult education throughout his life. He earned
DAVIES, J. GLYN - see DAVIES, JOHN GLYN
DAVIES, JACOB (1816 - 1849) Ceylon, Baptist missionary
DAVIES, JAMES (Iago ap Dewi; 1800 - 1869), printer and poet Thomas (Gwilym Mai, 1807 - 1872), and together they developed their knowledge of cynghanedd and of the free metres. About 1840 Davies left Carmarthen to join Josiah Thomas Jones's printing office at Cowbridge, and for the rest of his life remained a faithful and trustworthy printer with J. T. Jones, removing with him to Carmarthen in 1842, and to Aberdare in 1854. He was a constant competitor in
DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648 - 1722), translator, copyist and collector of manuscripts
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister Maurice); further, they were mixed congregations of Calvinists and Arminians. Davies's senior (Arminian) colleague was Roger Williams (1667 - 1730), who lived at Cefn Arthen (he had been in office since 1698, and upon his death in 1730 the union of Cefn Arthen and Cwm-y-glo came to an end, but not the doctrinal division within both congregations). Davies was not only a Calvinist but belonged to the new
DAVIES, JAMES (1765 - 1849) Devauden, schoolmaster Born 23 August 1765 at Blaen Trothy in Grosmont parish, Monmouth, he was a son of Edward Davies, farmer, and his wife Judith. After his schooldays at Llangattock-Lingoed, and a short period in a lawyer's office, he was for fifteen years a weaver. His marriage (1796) was unhappy, and he became a pedlar; after his wife's death he lived at Usk, where he kept a small shop till 1812; in that year he
DAVIES, JAMES (1767? - 1860), Baptist minister

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