Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES family, smiths HUW DAVIES, smith, was living at Groes-foel, Esclusham, in the 17th century. He was buried in the churchyard at Wrexham, 2 September 1702. A handrail of exquisite design in the choir of Wrexham church and a small gate in Malpas churchyard (Cheshire) are attributed to him. He and his wife, Eleanor, had four sons, ROBERT (died 1748/9), JOHN (died 1755), Huw, and Thomas, and six daughters (Anne
DAVIES, Sir ALFRED THOMAS (1861 - 1949), the first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education
DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council Alun Herbert Davies was born on 31 May 1927 in Llansamlet, Glamorgan (he adopted the name Creunant later), the only son of the Reverend Thomas Herbert (Creunant) Davies and Hannah Davies (née Thomas). The family moved to Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire in 1936 and Alun received his secondary education in Llandovery. Following the untimely death of his father, he continued his education at Trinity
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the
DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister Born in Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire, 12 April 1878, son of Thomas Davies, a worker on the Maes-gwyn estate, and his wife Sarah. After being apprenticed as a joiner, he went to Old College School, Carmarthen, in 1901 and he was admitted to the Presbyterian College there in 1902. He was ordained on 28 July 1904. He married Sarah, the daughter of Benjamin and Mary Bowen of the parish of Eglwys Newydd
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor described in the Wilson list cited above. Benjamin Davies acquired his rudiments at the hands of his minister Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), then went to the Academy grammar school at Carmarthen c. 1754, and finally (1760) became exhibitioner of the Academy itself. At an unrecorded date he became assistant tutor at Abergavenny Academy, and on the death of David Jardine was appointed (8 December 1766) tutor
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1826 - 1905), Baptist minister, writer, and printer Born September 1826 at Fishguard, son of Thomas and Naomi Davies, and baptized there in 1841. He was a printer and bookbinder, but began preaching in 1848, went to Haverfordwest Baptist College (1851-4), and ministered at Brymbo (1854-5), Salem, Ffordd-las, in Denbighshire (1855-7), Birkenhead (1857-61), and Salem, Porth, Rhondda (1861-6). He then resumed in 1866 his trade as printer and
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector of the ' Piser Sioned ' poems (Bangor MS. 3212 (564)); born at Llanycil, Meironnydd, son of David Thomas and Lowry Cadwaladr. He kept a school at Dwyryd near Corwen, and at Tre'rddôl (this in 1740). The ' Piser ' was gathered together in the years 1733-45, the main corpus being country songs and plygain carols, composed by homely bards of Penllyn and Edeirnion, the district of Cerrig-y-drudion
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist Carmarthen. She fought against the wholly English atmosphere at the school, and quarrelled with the headmistress in her efforts to improve the position of Welsh. Her next role as a lecturer at Barry Training College between 1923 and 1938 brought her much more happiness. Under the leadership of Ellen Evans (1891-1953), the inspirational head of the girls only College, she was given free rein to experiment
DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer Council of Music for Wales, wrote a Foreword to the book, which was dedicated to her professor at Cardiff, David Evans, 'for all he has taught me'. Between 1959 and her retirement in 1966 she was Head of the Music Department at Trinity College, Carmarthen. She and her husband retired to Llandudno, where she was one of the founders of the Llandudno Music Club (later the Llandudno Music Society), and was
DAVIES, CHARLES (1849 - 1927), Baptist minister Born at Llwynhendy, 3 November 1849, son of Daniel and Margaret Davies. He studied at the Graig Academy, Swansea, a grammar school managed by G. P. Evans, minister of York Place, Swansea, and was later admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen. He was ordained in 1870 and accepted charge of Penuel, Bangor. In 1877 he moved to Liverpool to take charge of Everton Village Baptist church; in 1888
DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools schools. He thus fell in with a movement to the same effect initiated by the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion and supported by Professor Thomas Powel (1845 - 1922). Davies spoke on the subject at the Liverpool national eisteddfod (1884), read a paper on it before the Cymmrodorion in London (1885), and contributed to the Baner in that year a series of articles which were reprinted (1885, 1886) under the

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