Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet Born 17 October 1846 at Portmadoc, where she lived all her life, the elder daughter of captain Lewis Davies and Jennet, his wife, of the Tregunter Arms, Portmadoc. She was educated at a private school at Portmadoc which was maintained by a daughter of William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog). At an early age she showed an aptitude for writing poetry and received instruction from Ioan Madog (John Williams
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician became clerk to a legal firm at Llanfyllin with which David Williams (1799 - 1869 was connected, and he followed the firm when it moved to Portmadoc and then to Pwllheli. He was schoolmaster at Portmadoc, 1844-9, but in 1849 removed to Bangor to become a clerk, and died there 10 September 1876. Remembering his scrappy education and his constant shiftings for half a century, one cannot but be astonished
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations Myriel Davies was born in Swansea on 5 March 1920, the daughter and second child of a Congregationalist (Independent) minister, David Morgan (1883-1959), and his wife Sarah Jane (née Jones, 1885-1953). Her brother, Herbert Myrddin Morgan (1918-1999), had been born two years previously. She spent her early years at Glyn Neath, Caerau, Maesteg and Whitland before moving, aged 12, to Bancyfelin
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist 1931, 'You are creating a new and richer nationalism in Wales, a new Welsh mind, which is not narrowly literary and one-sided, but is fully humanistic and in close touch with reality.' It is an apt description of Noëlle. He thought highly enough of her - along with Professor T. H. Parry-Williams - to obtain her nomination of his candidature for the University of Wales parliamentary election in 1931
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister the Welsh Baptist Union, and chairman in 1888. [See article on John Rufus Williams, which indicates that he would have been co-secretary of the Welsh Baptist Union, since John Rufus Williams also held the post from its foundation.] For a period he edited Yr Athraw, and he was editor of Y Greal from 1871 to 1918. He married, 1872, Sarah Jane, daughter of Owen and Catherine Ellis, of Bryn y Pin
DAVIES, OWEN PICTON (1882 - 1970), journalist Journalists. In the early years of radio, he wrote many technical articles on the subject to the press. Later he wrote about 50 feature programmes in Welsh, on topics relating to Welsh history and literature, which were broadcast from Cardiff. In 1962 he published his reminiscences in Atgofion Dyn Papur Newydd. In 1909 he married Jane Jones, eldest daughter of Captain and Mrs. David Jones, Caernarfon, and
DAVIES, RACHEL (Rahel o Fôn; 1846 - 1915), lecturer and preacher Born in Anglesey (?), daughter of William Cox Paynter, of the parish of Llanfihangel-y-pennant, Caernarfonshire, and his wife Jane Mary (Williams), Cae Eithin Tew, Cwmystradllyn, Caernarfonshire. (Some of the forebears of her father had been customs officers at Minffordd and Llanfrothen, Merioneth, and at Portmadoc, Caernarfonshire). When she was young she lived for a time at Brynsiencyn
DAVIES, RANDOLPH (d. 1695), cleric and controversialist remained vicar of Meifod until the Restoration (1660), when he once more conformed, being reappointed to the living by king Charles II under the Great Seal of the Realm, 25 August 1660, and receiving institution by the bishop of Sr Asaph, 13 August 1661; he also received the sinecure rectory of Cwm, Flintshire. He married, 10 June 1648, Mary, daughter of John Williams, the loyalist vicar of Llanfyllin
DAVIES, RHYS (Y Glun Bren; 1772 - 1847), eccentric Independent preacher occasion when he was preaching at Bedd-y-coediwr farm-house, Trawsfynydd, he made an astonishing impression on a very young man who later became one of the outstanding preachers of Wales and was known as 'Williams of Wern' (William Williams, 1781 - 1840). When he was out on tour he used to sell copies of the 'Association Letters' of the Independents, and, in this way, doubtless did much good in the rural
DAVIES, RICHARD (1818 - 1896), M.P. rather as a symbolic figure than on personal grounds. As he (and his family) exemplified the new free-trade economic order, so also in politics he, like his colleague David Williams (1799 - 1869 in Merioneth, became an almost legendary symbol of the new Liberal Nonconformist middle class, whose ascendancy in Wales was to last into the 20th century. He married, 1855, Anne, daughter of Henry Rees, and
DAVIES, RICHARD (Mynyddog; 1833 - 1877), poet, singer, and eisteddfod conductor Born at Dôl Lydan, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, 10 January 1833. His father, Daniel Davies, was deacon and precentor in the Old Chapel, while his mother, Jane, belonged to a bookish family. He was christened by John Roberts (1767 - 1834). When he was 2 years of age his parents moved to Fron in the same parish. He was educated at the Old Chapel school kept by the younger John Roberts (J.R., 1804
DAVIES, RICHARD (Isgarn; 1887 - 1947), farmer-shepherd and poet , Caniadau Isgarn having an introduction by T.H. Parry-Williams and an appreciation by S.M. Powell. He was deeply interested in local history and antiquities, and was buried, as he had wished, at Strata Florida.

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