Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College Born 20 November 1895 at Cae Adda, Llanwrin, Denbighshire, son of Owen Gruffydd Owen and Mary Winifred Davies of Cae Adda. His father was a brother of Richard Owen, Mynydd Ednyfed (father of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, see Lloyd George family below). He was educated at the village school, Machynlleth county school, University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated in the classics), and Christ
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister ) and was general secretary of the province from 1865 to 1875. His first wife was Jane Williams, Ty Newydd, Abergele (died 26 January 1854, aged 33); William Edwards Davies was their son. His second wife was Mary Humphreys of Aberystwyth (died 1875), widow of Hugh Humphreys of Holywell. He himself died shortly after his second wife, 13 August 1875, and was buried with her at Aberystwyth.
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Mynorydd; 1826 - 1901), sculptor and musician West Hampstead cemetery. Mary Davies, singer, was his daughter.
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1949), local historian . He contributed much to Cymru, Yr Haul, Lleufer, Y Ford Gron, Heddiw, Y Dysgedydd, and Bathafarn. He also helped J. Bodfan Anwyl in the preparation of the fifth edition of Spurrell's dictionary. His chief work was Hanes plwyf Llanegryn, published in 1948. He married Mary Matilda Roberts (1888-1974), and they had one daughter, Mairwen (1922-2004), and one son, Gwilym Prys Davies (1923-2017).
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist recipient of many honours from college and university. He had married, in 1888, Mary Davies (1855 - 1930), widely known on the concert platform; in 1891 he became a barrister of the Inner Temple. He contributed the first four chapters to the history of the University of Wales and its colleges, published in 1905. He died at Worthing on 25 November of that year and is commemorated in his college by a bronze
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-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, co-heirs, LETITIA and MARY. The former, who obtained Llannerch estate as her share of her brother's property, married Daniel Leo, of Bath, and, dying without issue on 11 December 1801, aged 67 years, devised her possessions to her cousin, Anne Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Peter Davies, and wife of the Rev. George Allanson. Mary, who succeeded to Gwysaney, married Philip Puleston, of Hafod-y
DAVIS family, coalowners DAVIS, DAVID, sen. (1797 - 1866), son of William David Jeffrey and Margaret (Lewis), was born in 1797 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire. After serving as apprentice to his maternal uncle, Lewis Lewis, a grocer and draper at Merthyr Tydfil, he opened a shop of his own at Hirwaun, and soon afterwards married Mary Lewis, who seems to have been a daughter of Thomas Lewis, another uncle of his. They
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster assistant master at the school. Towards the end of 1768 he became, jointly with David Lloyd (1724 - 1779), minister of Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Ciliau Aeron, Allt-y-blaca, Pen-rhiw, and Mydroilyn, and later on of Bwlch-y-fadfa as well, making his home at Plas-bach, Ciliau Aeron, where he married Anne Evans of Foelallt, grand-daughter of ' Squire Davies ' of Plas-bach. About 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller , a second party of nurses led by Mary Stanley, of whom Betsi Cadwaladr was one, was recruited and left London on 2 December 1854. Nightingale was not informed of this until a week before their ship arrived at Istanbul, when it was too late for them to be turned back. As a result, they found themselves unwanted, with inadequate accommodation and nothing to do. Cadwaladr, bored and frustrated, blamed
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist Born 16 December 1864 at Bryncethin, near Bridgend, his father, Thomas, being farmer of the smallholding of Cae-helyg Bach, a collier at Park Slip, and a lay preacher, and his mother, Mary, a member of the David family of Pencoed. On his father's side, he was descended from the illustrious families of Gamage and Dawkins. His mother died in 1877, his father was killed in the colliery, 14 August
DAWKINS, Sir WILLIAM BOYD (1837 - 1929), geologist and antiquary Owens College, Manchester, 1874-1909. He was elected F.R.S. in 1867, and honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 1882; he was awarded the Lyell medal of the Geological Society, 1889, and the Prestwich medal, 1918, and was knighted, 1919. He married (1886) Frances, daughter of Robert Speke Evans, and (1922) Mary Poole. He died at Bowdon, Cheshire, 15 January 1929. Dawkins was a pioneer in the study of

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