Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVID ab OWEN (d. 1512), abbot and bishop A native of Glasgoed in Meifod, Montgomeryshire, he was the son of Owen ap Deio ap Llewelyn ab Einion ap Celynin. He studied canon and civil law at Oxford, and he is said to have taken his doctorate in law. His legal knowledge seems to have been put into practice in the service of John, earl of Worcester, chief justice of North Wales, between 1461 and 1467. He was thus a supporter of the house of
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales Rhygyfarch's work; so also is his 'Life' by John of Tynemouth (c. 1290 - 1350). The Welsh 'Life' also is a translation and an adaptation of Rhygyfarch's work: the earliest version is found in 'The Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi-frefi' (1346). Odes to David were composed by many later poets, e.g. Iolo Goch, Ieuan Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd, Dafydd Llwyd ap Llywelyn, Rhisiart ap Rhys, Lewis Glyn Cothi. In
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister Cwmllynfell. He is pretty certainly the John David who joined Henry Palmer and Rees Davies, in a letter (Trevecka letter 231) to Howel Harris, 22 March 1740. He died 22 July 1756, and was buried at Manordivy. There is an elegy (printed in the work mentioned below) upon him by Morris Griffiths. A record in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest speaks in very high terms of John David.
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, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman Lyn Talfan Davies (who married the rugby international Barry John), Christopher Humphrey Talfan Davies, and Kathryn Elizabeth Talfan Davies. Alun Talfan Davies was made QC in 1961 and knighted in 1976. He was appointed Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil in 1963; of Swansea in 1969; and later that year of Cardiff; was Honorary Cardiff Recorder and a Crown Court Recorder 1972-1983; Deputy Chair of Cardigan
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian military interpreter, he was sent to learn Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among his colleagues there were John Silkin (1928-1987), the novelist Richard Mason (1919-1997), Peter Parker who was later the head of British Rail, and John Watkins who was to become a French lecturer at Bangor. He was quickly promoted in the 14th Army in Burma as an intelligence officer
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1858 - 1943), singer Born 6 January 1858 at Pontardawe, Glamorgan - the family moved later to Cwmbwrla near Swansea - son of John and Hannah Davies. He won his first prize as a singer at the age of five. He sang alto in ' Côr Caradog ' and won several prizes in eisteddfodau. In 1878 he won a scholarship which took him to the Royal Academy of Music where he gained several medals and became F.R.A.M. Appointed chief
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector , and the highlands of Hiraethog. Davies took great delight in astrology, in explaining vagaries of weather, and the interpretation of dreams, and the sacred significance of fast days; he did some doctor's work both on men and on animals. He was tenant to John Humphreys of Maerdy by Gwyddelwern from 1729 to 1739, but there is a record that he was asked to leave in 1743. Date of death uncertain.
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist Cassie Davies was born in Blaencaron, near Tregaron, on 20 March 1898. She was christened Cathrin Jane, but was known throughout her life as Cassie. One of ten children, six boys and four girls, she was raised on a mountain farm, Cae Tudur, where her family's history stretched back as far as the seventeenth century. Her father, John, led the singing at Blaencaron chapel and had a melodious tenor
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator College of Wales, Aberystwyth. She obtained a University of Wales studentship and again in Aberystwyth she graduated MA in 1949 for a thesis 'A critical study of John Locke's examination of Père Malebranche's opinion of seeing all things in God'. In 1948 she was awarded the Kemsley travelling fellowship of the University of Wales which enabled her to spend a year at the Sorbonne, Paris, studying the
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

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