Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, JACOB (1816 - 1849) Ceylon, Baptist missionary Born at Cefn-mawr, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, 22 February 1816. In April 1835 he joined the Baptists and was baptized by immersion. He began to preach in 1837 and in 1840 passed into the Baptist College, Bradford. When he had completed his course he volunteered for the mission field. In 1844 he was chosen to work in Ceylon and reached that country in September of the same year. He made a
DAVIES, JOHN (Taliesin Hiraethog; 1841 - 1894), farmer and poet down utterly. He died 20 March 1894 and was buried at Whitchurch, Denbigh, near Twm o'r Nant. He was an eisteddfod poet. His neighbour at Hafod Elwy, Elias Jones (Llew Hiraethog), Hafod-y-llan, a grandson of Robert Davies of Nantglyn (1769 - 1835), taught him the art of poetry and aroused his interest in the eisteddfodau. He won a number of prizes for poems in the classical metres and for modern
DAVIES, JOHN (Peirianydd Gwynedd; 1783 - 1855), engineer, carpenter, smith, clock-maker, poet, and musician , ROBERT, worked in partnership with him. One of his looms (c. 1820) can be seen at the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans, where it is still in regular use. He died 20 September 1855.
DAVIES, JOHN (1772 - 1855), school teacher and missionary the edition of her hymns published by Owen M. Edwards ] and wrote frequently to her brother, John. There is also still extant a great deal of correspondence addressed by him to John Hughes (1775 - 1854), of Pont Robert. He was the author of a dictionary and grammar of the Tahitian language and translated into that language the Pilgrim's Progress, substantial portions of the New Testament and Psalms
DAVIES, JOHN (Gwyneddon; 1832 - 1904), printer and journalist author of a popular harvest thanksgiving hymn which begins ' Anfeidrol Dduw rhagluniaeth.' He died at Caernarvon 30 January 1904. ROBERT GWYNEDDON DAVIES (1870 - 1928), solicitor Law Literature and Writing His son, a solicitor, who died 17 April 1928, aged 58, was the author of an English translation of Y Bardd Cwsc (1st ed. 1897, 2nd ed. 1909). Many of the manuscripts which he collected are now in the
DAVIES, JOHN BREESE (1893 - 1940), writer, musician, and a specialist in cerdd dant highest standards possible for the traditional singing to harp accompaniment, and strove hard to secure its recognition at the national eisteddfod. He and J.E. Jones were considered to be the chief benefactors of their day in this field. He was one of the founders of the Cerdd Dant Society and edited its magazine, Allwedd y Tannau, from its first issue till 1940. He was prominent in the life of his
DAVIES, JOHN HUMPHREYS (1871 - 1926), bibliographer, man of letters, and educationist of its county council in 1917. His main hobby was the collection of Welsh books and manuscripts, and in this field he was an authority recognized in the whole of Wales. Amongst his many publications the most important are Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru, 1901; The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris of Anglesey, (vol. I, 1907), (vol. II, 1909); Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd, ii, 1908; A Bibliography
DAVIES, JOHN SALMON (1940 - 2016), scientist in 1964, and they made their home in Killay, Swansea. They had two daughters, Eleri and Meinir. Within the field of organic chemistry his research specialism was peptides, compounds based on amino acids which occur naturally in the human body, especially in skin cells. With the support of groups of researchers over several years, John worked on reforming the structure of peptides, thereby making
DAVIES, MORGAN (d. 1857), sexton of Llanelltyd, Merioneth, and minor poet (Dolgelley, 1853), which contains the poems of his friend Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill, 1780 - 1861); his name appears also in the list of subscribers to that volume. He was acquainted with Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn, 1769 - 1835) and Edward Davies (Iolo Trefaldwyn, 1819 - 1887); poems to him by both of them appearing in NLW MS 672D. He was buried at Llanelltyd, 23 September 1857.
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician (Gwilym Glan Hafren, 1788 - 1838) at Welshpool. After six months there, he kept school, at Pont Robert, Llanfyllin, Syston, Leicestershire, Llanfair Caereinion, and Llanfyllin again, till 1836. The parson of Syston was Edward Morgan (1784 - 1869), who was at the time engaged on his Life of Thomas Charles, and it was Davies who copied for him the 150 letters by Charles used in that book. In 1836 he
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

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