Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, MORRIS (Moi Plas; 1891 - 1961), quarryman, local historian and researcher Born 24 June 1891 in Plas Capten, Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, the son of William Davies, farmer, and his wife Ruth (née Humphreys). He was educated at the board school Trawsfynydd, but in common with many of his contemporaries his schooling was cut short and he left to work at home on the farm. He served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers in Palestine and France during World War I. Afterwards, and
DAVIES, OWEN (1719 - 1792), Independent minister Born in a small cottage, where there was a fulling mill, on the Erwyon estate near Ffald-y-brenin, Carmarthenshire. As a young man he joined the Independent church at Crofft-y-cyff, began to preach at the age of 24, was ordained there in 1743, and laboured there acceptably as minister and schoolmaster until 1765, when he was called to Capel y Graig, Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire. There, he was very
DAVIES, RANDOLPH (d. 1695), cleric and controversialist opinions he is said to have interceded with bishop William Lloyd (1627 - 1717) of St Asaph on behalf of a body of Independents living in his own parish: his great desire seems to have been to live at peace with all men, especially with his own ecclesiastical superiors and his neighbours. He was buried 24 February 1695.
DAVIES, THOMAS (1820 - 1873), Independent minister Born at Tre-lech, Carmarthenshire, 3 April 1820, where he became a member of the church, 8 April 1838. While still young he went to Maesteg, Glamorganshire, to work, returning in 1841 to attend the British school at Tre-lech. After a year at Thomas's school, Carmarthen, he went to Brecon College, 1843-7, where he was an exceptionally assiduous student. He made a reputation for himself as a highly
DAVIES, THOMAS (1851 - 1892), musician Born at Ebbw Vale, 1851. He was one of the first to adopt the sol-fa system in South Wales. His favourite form of musical composition was the anthem: he composed about six which had a popular appeal - ' Dyddiau dyn sydd fel glaswelltyn ' being well known at one period. He was a successful musical conductor and teacher. He died 20 December 1892 and was buried at the Ebbw Vale cemetery, 24 December.
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Liverpool School of Art before starting work as a commercial artist in the city. He returned to live and work at Star on the death of his father. It was about this time - 1923-24 - that Ifan ab Owen Edwards asked him to provide illustrations for the monthly magazine Cymru'r Plant, and thus began more than forty years of work for Urdd Gobaith Cymru. His cartoon characters ' Toodles ' and ' Twm y gath
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric Born at Stangrach, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. On the title-page of the elegy written upon him, William Williams of Pantycelyn stated that he died 'in the Sixtieth Year of his Age,' but the only likely entry in the parish register concerns the christening of one ' Gulielmus filius Jonathan David,' 24 August 1729. We do not know where he was educated nor when he was ordained, but it is said that
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian Teilo, was published under the editorship of Peter Hughes Griffiths. He died at Llandilo, 3 October 1892, and was buried there.
DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1871 - 1940), poet and author Born 3 July 1871 at Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouth; son of Mary Ann and Francis Boase Davies, iron-moulder. He received an elementary education and, at school, became interested in poetry. On completing his apprenticeship as a carver and gilder, he tramped in U.S.A. and Canada, but lost his foot in a train-jumping accident in March 1899. He returned to England, determined to succeed as a poet
DAVIES, WILLIAM HUBERT (1893 - 1965), musician Born 24 May 1893 at Abersychan, Monmouthshire, and educated at West Monmouth Grammar School, Pontypool. At the age of fifteen he won a Sainton open scholarship to study the violin at the Royal Academy of Music; he was a pupil of Hans Wessely and later at Dresden of Leopold Auer. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the string trio which was formed by Henry Walford Davies at the University College
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster minister for fifty-two years. He published a translation of Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Man, 1779, another of Gray's 'Elegy,' 1789, Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth, 1792, and in 1824 a volume of his own verse entitled Telyn Dewi. He died 3 July 1827 and was buried in Llanwenog churchyard. DAVID DAVIS (1778 - 1846), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Religion Education 'Dafis
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller Betsi Cadwaladr was born on 24 May 1789 at Penrhiw near Bala, Merioneth, and was apparently the thirteenth of the sixteen children born to Dafydd Cadwaladr (1752-1834), farmer, and his wife Judith (née Humphreys or 'Erasmus', died 1800). She was christened at Llanycil on 26 May 1789. According to her Autobiography, Betsi changed her surname from 'Cadwaladr' to 'Davis' when she was living among

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