Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister , Llandeilo and remained there until his retirement in 1954 when he went to live in Sketty, Swansea. He died 17 September 1958 and was interred at Bwlchnewydd, Carmarthenshire. He was chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1947 and that year he went to America to attend the World Congregational Congress in Boston. He published three books: Siôn Gymro (1938), Cofiant Tomos Llanboidy (1953), and Coleg
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet characters - but is also constricted, closed, claustrophobic, and, of course, irretrieveable. On the other hand the contemporary area of the Dyke is an agoraphobic, disconnected, disassociated wasteland, perpetually open, as Dafydd Johnston has noted, to the cold winds of the English east which scour the fragile growth of Welshness off the face of the land. If the poet is living between two worlds, then it
DAVIES, DAFYDD GWILYM (1922 - 2017), minister, lecturer and Baptist College Principal Dafydd G. Davies was born on 1 July 1922 at Prysgol, Four Crosses, Pwllheli, the only child of John Clement Davies (1896-1982), a Baptist minister, and his wife Gwen Ellen (née Griffith, 1894-1970), a Welsh teacher. The family moved in 1922 when his father became minister of Graig Baptist Church in Newcastle Emlyn, and Dafydd was brought up there. He was educated at Adpar Primary School
DAVIES, DAVID TEGFAN (1883 - 1968), Congregational minister Born 27 February 1883 in Capel Bach, a smallholding in Abergwili parish, Carmarthenshire, where he was brought up by his grandparents, Dafydd and Hannah Dafis. It was to them, and the local inhabitants of the district of Peniel, that he was indebted for the vivid and vigorous language he spoke, full of words and expressions that are no longer in colloquial use. After leaving school he became a
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer Born at Mount Pleasant, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 11 December 1855, son of Dafydd and Gwen Davies. He was educated at the national school, Bethesda, Friars School, Bangor, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1881. In February 1883 he was ordained deacon (in the church at Llantysilio); in 1884 he was appointed curate at Lanaelhaiarn and in 1885 at Conway. While at Conway he was given
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph The son of Dafydd ap Robert of Caerhun, a descendant, through Sir Gruffydd Llwyd (lord of Dinorwig), of Ednyfed Fychan. The date of his birth is variously given as 1512 (Strype, Ann., I, i, 371), 1515 (Griffith, Pedigrees), and 1537 (Browne Willis, A Survey of the Cathedral-Church of St. Asaph, 1801 ed., i, 104). The first is the probable date, the last impossible. He was educated at Oxford and
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr, born 24 May 1789 and christened 26 May at Llanycil (Bala). All our knowledge of her life comes from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis (two vols., 1857), compiled by Jane Williams, Ysgafell, from notes of her conversation. Left by the death of her mother (c. 1795-6) to the care of an elder sister whom she detested, Elizabeth quickly became a rebel. Though taken
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer Thomas of Carno, a short 'Life' of Dafydd Dafis of Cywarch (1794 - 1861, a highly original preacher), a number of small religious books, and a certain amount of verse. He died 10 January 1919, aged 77.
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner body should be established to promote the language. Nicholas Edwards and the Welsh Office were opposed to the proposal, and Gwilym Prys Davies was a source of annoyance to them in the 1980s. He considered a new Welsh Language Act, and produced a pamphlet on the subject in 1984. He was extremely busy between 1983 and 1987 working with Dafydd Wigley and other friends of the Welsh language. There was
DAVIES, HUGH (1739 - 1821), cleric and author of Welsh Botanology , Samuel Goodenough, and many others, including William Owen Pughe and David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), are preserved in NLW MS 6665C, whilst in NLW MS 2594E, NLW MS 13221E, NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS 13223C, NLW MS 13224B, and NLW MS 14350A, are to be found letters from Davies to Thomas Pennant, John Williams (Treffos, Anglesey), and William Owen Pughe. He sent a note ('Four British Lichens') to the second
DAVIES, HUMFFREY (fl. 1600?-64?), poet Sometimes described as sexton and sometimes as parish clerk of Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire. It is sometimes said that William Phylip wrote his well-known 'Cywydd y Bedd' after visiting the grave of Wmffre Dafydd at Llanbrynmair; it is possible, however, that the Llanbrynmair bard survived the author of 'Cywydd y Bedd' (who died 1669). Richard Williams (Montgomeryshire worthies) quotes this
DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648 - 1722), translator, copyist and collector of manuscripts refers to this event in his poems - and there is evidence that he lived in Penllyn, Meironnydd, for a time before returning to Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, where he died 24 September 1722. It is recorded that he was buried there 27 September 1722. There are indications that his later years were made wearisome by poverty and ill health. The tradition that Siôn Rhydderch (John Roderick), the almanac

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