Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, RACHEL (Rahel o Fôn; 1846 - 1915), lecturer and preacher (Blackwell says 'the Independents'). She preached often in various places in the state of Ohio c. 1871. She returned to Wales for a period and lived at Dwyran, Anglesey; at this time she gave some assistance to David Lloyd George in his electoral campaign. She married, in the U.S.A., Edward Davies, a native of Cardiganshire; and died 29 November 1915.
DAVIES, REES (1694? - 1767), Independent minister 'Cromindee,' but by 1724 Rees Davies was minister of the congregation at Goitre which in 1744 removed to a new chapel in Llanover parish, patriotically called 'Hanover.' [The 'Cromindee' ('Comb du') Congregation and the later (1744) 'Hanover' Congregation were one and the same (Isaac Thomas in Y Cofiadur, 1958, 12-13).] Davies is said to have been well-to-do (he certainly married well) and well educated
DAVIES, REES Canerw (d. c. 1788) Llanboidy - see DAVIES, BENJAMIN
DAVIES, REUBEN (Reuben Brydydd y Coed; 1808 - 1833), poet and schoolmaster Born 1808, son of ' Dafydd the Weaver and Betty ' of Tanrallt, Cribin, Cardiganshire. He went to school at Cribin and Ystrad under T. J. Griffiths (Tau Gimel, 1797? - 1871) and Rees Davies of Ystrad. His ambition was to enter the Unitarian ministry, and in 1825 he was admitted to Carmarthen College; unfortunately, his health broke down and he was only there for a short time. He became a
DAVIES, RHYS (1795 - 1838), engineer and industrialist Rhys Davies was born in Llangynidr, Breconshire, in January 1795. His father was an ironworker, and might have been the Rees Davies of Llangynidr who constructed three furnaces for the Tredegar Company in Monmouthshire from 1800 onwards. Rhys Davies worked in the Tredegar Ironworks from the age of 11 years. At some time in the 1820s, he joined the Corps of Royal Engineers. He helped construct
DAVIES, RHYS JOHN (1877 - 1954), politician and trade union official married Margaret Ann Griffiths, a domestic science teacher in Ton Pentre. They had three sons. A younger brother was the poet-preacher, Rev. T. Cennech Davies (1875 - 1944; see David J. Thomas, Bywyd a gwaith Cennech Davies (1949). He died at Porthcawl, 31 October 1954, his wife having predeceased him about a year before.
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, ROBERT (Asaph Llechid; 1834 - 1858), musician Born 29 June 1834 at Carneddi near Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, son of David Roberts. He delighted in music while still a child and made up his mind to master the art. Robert Moses, the instructor of the Carneddi Choral Society, gave him his first lessons, and Eos Llechid (O. H. Davies) taught him harmony and composition, in which he made such good progress that by the time he was 16 he had already
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian deal of notoriety, as it was he, together with William Owen Pughe and Dewi Silin (David Richards, 1783 - 1826), who gave the prize to Edward Hughes (1772 - 1850) of Bodfari instead of to Dewi Wyn (David Owen, 1784 - 1841) for an awdl on 'Elusengarwch' at the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1819. Some of his poems were published in 1798 under the title Cnewyllyn mewn Gwisg, which was followed in 1803 by
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder The youngest son of David Davies, skinner, and Jonett, daughter of Robert Jones, Aberllefenni, Meironnydd, Robert Davies was born at Machynlleth and migrated to Aberystwyth. With his cousin, Owen Jones (1787 - 1828), he was one of the founders of the Sunday school at Trefechan, Aberystwyth, in connection with Tabernacle chapel, and its permanent superintendent. It was at his house in Great
DAVIES, ROBERT HUMPHREY (Gomerian; 1856 - 1947), correspondent of Welsh and English newspapers ; for fourteen years he was secretary of the St. David's Day Society and he was twice elected its president. He arranged several eisteddfodau and visited Wales to invite David Lloyd-George to attend the international eisteddfod to be held in the U.S.A. At the suggestion of Lloyd George he formed the American Gorsedd of Bards of which he became the recorder; he served, e.g. as recorder, of the Gorsedd
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman Rose Davies was born at 43 Cardiff Street, Aberdare in the Cynon Valley on 16 September 1882, the daughter of William Henry Rees, a local tin worker, and his wife Fanny (née Berry). She was one of seven children, six of whom became teachers. In 1896 she became a monitor at the Aberdare Town National School, and was then apprenticed as a pupil teacher there, subsequently becoming an assistant

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