Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, OWEN (1752 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born at Wrexham, a twin son of Owen Davies, tailor. In his youth, he went to London and thence to Brentford, where he became a Wesleyan Methodist and married a Mrs. Hemans, a widow whose son Thomas entered the Methodist ministry. In due course, he returned to London and began to visit the workhouses of the city and to preach. At the request of John Wesley, conveyed to him by Thomas Olivers, he
DAVIES, OWEN (1719 - 1792), Independent minister Titus Evans was minister, but the congregation diminished and it was closed in the nineties.
DAVIES, REES (1694? - 1767), Independent minister 'Cromindee,' but by 1724 Rees Davies was minister of the congregation at Goitre which in 1744 removed to a new chapel in Llanover parish, patriotically called 'Hanover.' [The 'Cromindee' ('Comb du') Congregation and the later (1744) 'Hanover' Congregation were one and the same (Isaac Thomas in Y Cofiadur, 1958, 12-13).] Davies is said to have been well-to-do (he certainly married well) and well educated
DAVIES, REUBEN (Reuben Brydydd y Coed; 1808 - 1833), poet and schoolmaster schoolmaster at Cribin and, during the later years of his life, at Cilmaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire; he translated into Welsh the works of many Greek and Latin authors, particularly those of Ovid. An original manuscript of his works was in the possession of Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, and the Rev. D. Evans of Cribin had a copy. He wrote over fifty hymns, and Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu, 1792 - 1846) thought
DAVIES, RHISIART MORGAN (1903 - 1958), scientist and professor of physics and deacon for many years at Baker Street chapel, Aberystwyth. He kept a record of the hymns that were sung, so that the congregation seldom sang the same hymn more than twice a year. He was interested in the college sports and was treasurer of the town's football club. He married in 1928 Elizabeth Florence, daughter of Thomas Davies, Aberystwyth, and they had one son who died young. He died 18
DAVIES, RHYS JOHN (1877 - 1954), politician and trade union official married Margaret Ann Griffiths, a domestic science teacher in Ton Pentre. They had three sons. A younger brother was the poet-preacher, Rev. T. Cennech Davies (1875 - 1944; see David J. Thomas, Bywyd a gwaith Cennech Davies (1949). He died at Porthcawl, 31 October 1954, his wife having predeceased him about a year before.
DAVIES, RICHARD (1501? - 1581), bishop and biblical translator 1560. Because his see was poor (£187 11s. 6d.) he was allowed to hold 'in commendam' his Buckinghamshire livings and two benefices in S. Asaph. Early in 1560 he sent a certified list of his clergy to archbishop Parker. Elected bishop of S. Davids to succeed Thomas Young 21 March 1561, he took the oath 18 May, but the first notice in his register does not occur until September 1561. He took his place
DAVIES, RICHARD (1635 - 1708), Quaker , Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, and his brother Thomas Lloyd and other leading Friends accompanied him in journeys to Merioneth and the counties of South Wales. His marriage took place in 1657 at Horsleydown, Southwark. He died 22 January 1708 and was interred in the Friends' burial ground at Cloddiau Cochion.
DAVIES, RICHARD OWEN (1894 - 1962), scientist and professor of agricultural chemistry the University of Wales in 1959. He served as external examiner in agricultural chemistry for the Institute of Chemistry from 1944 to 1954. He died 25 February 1962 and was buried in the public cemetery, Aberystwyth. He married in June 1929 Dinah Myfanwy, daughter of James Evans, Mydroilyn, Llannarth. She died 15 March, within a few weeks of her 100th birthday on 10 April 1987.
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian the influence on the author of the grammars used by the bards of the 15th and 16th century, the works of William Owen Pughe, and the Egluryn Phraethineb of Henry Perri but there is also abundant evidence of Bardd Nantglyn's own study of the subject. At the end of the book the author printed the rules of Welsh prosody, which had been formulated by Dafydd Ddu Eryri (David Thomas, 1759 - 1822) and
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder noticed; ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942) married (1) Thomas Edward Ellis and (2) the Rev. Peter Hughes Griffiths; WALTER ERNEST LLEWELLYN (1874 - 1941) was a physician; and ELIZA (Lily) (1876 - 1939) married J. E. Hughes (1865 - 1932).
DAVIES, ROBERT HUMPHREY (Gomerian; 1856 - 1947), correspondent of Welsh and English newspapers life. He married, 2 February 1887, Annie Evans of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 'Gomerian' was connected with many Welsh and English newspapers published in the U.S.A., and developed into a fluent writer in both languages. He wrote much to Y Drych; when The Druid began publication at Scranton, Pennsylvania, he soon became one of its chief correspondents. He was very active in Welsh circles in Pittsburgh

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