Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EDWARD (1796 - 1857), Independent minister and college tutor Born 13 March 1796 at Ashton, Salop, but brought up at Wrexham and educated at a grammar school at Chester; he was a protégé of William Williams of Wern (1781 - 1840), at whose suggestion he began preaching. Entering Llanfyllin Academy, then under George Lewis (1763 - 1822), in 1817, he was appointed student-assistant in 1818 and classical tutor in 1819; he married Lewis's daughter Sara. In 1821
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder devoted much of his time to the voluntary service of his connexion. He died 6 May 1892, and was buried at Llangeitho. Of his children, the eldest, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), married J. M. Saunders, and published a number of short sketches depicting Welsh religious and social life; DAVID CHARLES (1866 - 1928) became director of the Field Natural History Museum, Chicago; John Humphreys is separately
DAVIES, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), author - see SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA
GRIFFITHS, WILLIAM (1898 - 1962), bookseller 1959. He was a member of the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion for many years and he was elected a member of the Bardic Gorsedd under the name of ' Gwilym Cerdin '. He married Winifred Irene, daughter of John Kent and his wife Sara (née Rogers) in the parish church of Mentmore, Buckinghamshire 23 September 1933 and they had one daughter. He died in a London hospital on 8 October 1962.
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner Annie Jane Davies was born on 5 April 1873, at Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the sixth of ten children of Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Sara Maria (1864-1939), Mary (1869-1918) ac Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Robert Brian ('Bertie', 1865-1879), David Charles (1866-1928), Edward (1867-1869), John
JONES, REES (Amnon; 1797 - 1844), farmer and poet quoted locally to this day; his ' Politics Pegy,' ' Fy Nhadcu,' ' Awdl Gofiant Beirdd Ceredigion,' and ' Ymddiddan rhwng David Lloyd a Sara Gwarallt-yr-yn ' will be remembered; and there is a very modern ring about his ' Cwyn Gweithdai y Tlodion.' He probably did more than any one else to rouse and liberalize the intellectual faculties of the countrymen living in the surrounding districts.
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Halliwell, by whom he had three children, Diane, Gareth and Sara; the marriage was dissolved in 1986. In 1997 he married Rajkumari Williamson. Tom Parry Jones died on 11 January 2013 at Llandudno General Hospital after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. A funeral service was held at Capel Mawr, Menai Bridge, Anglesey on 18 January followed by cremation at Bangor Crematorium on the following day
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer his time as task force commander were published in 1987 as Christmas Island Cracker: Account of the Planning and Execution of the British Thermonuclear Bomb Tests, 1957. In 1995 he published Technocrat, a biography of his friend the American nuclear scientist Dr Allen Crocker. His first wife died in 1990, and in November 1991 he married Leticia Sara Malcolm (b. 1921), an Argentinian artist. In
ROBERTS, ROBERT DAVIES (1851 - 1911), pioneer in adult education and scientist Born 5 March 1851, at Aberystwyth, eldest son of Richard Davies Roberts, timber merchant, and Sara Davies. Educated locally and at Oswestry, the Liverpool Institute, University College, London (B.Sc., 1st class in geology, 1870, D.Sc., 1878), Clare College, Cambridge (2nd class natural sciences tripos., 1875), he was (1876-7) temporary lecturer at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author Sara Maria Saunders was born in March 1864 in Cwrt Mawr, Llangeitho, Ceredigion, the eldest of the ten children born to landowners Robert Joseph Davies (1839-1892) and his wife Frances (née Humphreys, 1836-1918). She had three sisters, Mary (1869-1918), Annie Jane (1873-1942) an international peace campaigner, and Eliza ('Lily', 1876-1939), and six brothers, Bertie (1865-1879), David Charles
THOMAS, ROBERT (1796 - 1866), Calvinistic Methodist preacher, a 'character' preaching in 1820. In 1823 he spent some months in John Hughes's school at Wrexham. After that, he himself kept a school at Bodfari and Trelogan, while continuing to work as a stone-mason. In 1826 he married Sara Roberts of Cae'r-lion, Llanycil, and they lived for two years at Bala where, for part of the time, he kept a school. From 1828 to 1834 he farmed Ty-nant in Llanycil, and from 1834 to 1840 rented
TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player Brooke, Scunthorpe in 1939, and they had three children: Sara, Simon and Georgina. Maurice Turnbull played his first match for Glamorgan in 1924 at the age of 18 whilst still at school, and, scoring 40 runs in the first innings contributed significantly to his team's victory over Lancashire. In 1926 he won his Blue at Cambridge University and scored his maiden first-class century, an unbeaten 106

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