Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister Llangollen, being one of the first six students. He was pastor at Holywell (1865), Llangollen (1867), and Caernarvon (1876). At Caernarvon he succeeded Robert Ellis (Cynddelw, 1810 - 1875). He retired in 1905. From 1892 to 1895 he was secretary to the North Wales Baptist College, Bangor, and from 1895 to 1915 lecturer on homiletics and pastoral theology on the college staff. He was the first secretary of
DAVIES, OWEN HUMPHREY (Eos Llechid; 1828 - 1898), quarryman, musician, and cleric he conducted at the music festival of the archdeaconries of Carmarthen and Swansea in 1867. In 1869 he was licensed as a lay reader to Ysgoldy, Maes-y-groes, by bishop Campbell of Bangor. In 1870 he was appointed tutor in music at the North Wales Normal College, Caernarvon, an appointment which he continued to hold for eight years. He composed the cantata ' Gwarchae Harlech ' and a number of
DAVIES, RICHARD (1818 - 1896), M.P. said) the first Nonconformist M.P. in Wales, for Walter Coffin had won Cardiff in 1852, and Davies had two Nonconformist colleagues in 1868. But he was Anglesey's first Nonconformist J.P. and its first Nonconformist Lord-Lieutenant, 1884. Richard Davies, though an able man and a liberal but careful benefactor, particularly to Bangor Normal College and to the 'British' schools, is perhaps important
DAVIES, RICHARD (1501? - 1581), bishop and biblical translator in Convocation and the House of Lords regularly, but without distinction. Both secular and ecclesiastical authorities made use of his talents as an administrator in Wales. A member of the Council of the Marches, he often acted as a special commissioner for it and for the Privy Council. In 1566 he tendered advice on the election of bishops to Llandaff and Bangor. Severe in his criticism of the
DAVIES, ROBERT (1816 - 1905), philanthropist ), to which he was a princely giver; in education he took (unlike his brother) but little interest, though he did contribute to the Normal and to the University College at Bangor. His minor charities are amusingly exemplified by the weekly dole of flour which he gave to those who came to Bodlondeb to fetch it. In these various ways, he is said to have given away nearly £500,000, and indeed at his
DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814 - 1867), musician Born 16 June 1814 at Segar farm, Henllan, near Denbigh. He lost his mother when he was 4 years of age and was brought up at Bron-haul, Henllan, by an uncle. He was apprenticed to a painter at S. Asaph. In 1834 he moved to Bangor, where he came into prominence as a musician and was elected precentor of the Wesleyan chapel. In 1837 he married Margaret, daughter of Owen Williams of Tros-y-canol
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1818 - 1891), Wesleyan minister principal characteristics may be summed up in the word 'usefulness.' He died at Amlwch 7 June 1891 and was buried at Glanadda, Bangor.
DAVIES, THOMAS WITTON (1851 - 1923), Baptist minister, and Semitic scholar principal of the Baptist College at Nottingham from 1891 till 1898, acting also as lecturer in Arabic and Syriac in University College, Nottingham; several terms during these years were spent at German universities - a whole year at Leipzig under Buhl, Socin, and Dalman, and a term under Noldeke at Strasbourg; he also studied Assyrian under Sayce. He moved to Bangor in 1898, first as Hebrew tutor at
DAVIES, TOM EIRUG (Eirug; 1892 - 1951), Congl. minister, writer and poet Born at Troed-y-rhiw, a farm in Gwernogle, Carmarthenshire, 23 February 1892, only son of John and Mary Davies. He worked on the farm until he was 18 years old, when he was encouraged to preach. He was educated at Gwernogle elementary school, Tremle preparatory school, Pencader, 1910-12, the University College and Bala-Bangor College (Congl.) in Bangor 1912-19. He graduated B.A. (honours
DAVIES, WILLIAM (d. 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr priesthood, whom he was conducting on their way to Ireland with a view to their entering a Spanish seminary. Next day he was taken to Beaumaris, and examined in the presence of Hugh Bellot, bishop of Bangor, and when Davies, on further magisterial examination, confessed his mission but refused to implicate his hosts, he was separated from his companions and confined to a 'dark stinking dungeon.' After a
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister serving as a minister in various circuits in North Wales, Liverpool, and London, he was in 1867 appointed supervisor of the denominational bookroom at Bangor. He was probably the most gifted Welsh Wesleyan minister of the century - an able organizer, an effective debater, a highly influential preacher, and a man of wide literary and musical interests. He was editor of Y Winllan (1857-60) and Yr Eurgrawn
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician were raised to send him to the college, and when he had completed his studies he set up as a music teacher at Llangefni, Anglesey, in 1880. In 1884 he was appointed chorister at Bangor. It was while he was at Llangefni that he began to compose songs which achieved considerable popularity. The first was 'Pistyll y Llan,' and this was followed by 'Y Banerwr', 'Yr Ornest,' 'Chwifiwn Faner,' and 'Llwybr

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