Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, RICHARD (1501? - 1581), bishop and biblical translator patron of poets, and wrote some mediocre verses himself. To expedite the translation of the Bible into Welsh after the Act of 1563 he invited William Salesbury to Abergwili. The outcome of their collaboration was the Prayer Book (Lliver gweddi Gyffredin) and New Testament (Testament Newydd ein Arglwydd Iesu Christ) of 1567. The authorship of the former has been usually attributed to Davies, but its
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, (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
DAVIES, STEPHEN (d. 1794), revived the defunct 17th century Baptist church at Carmarthen man, but that he could not brook opposition - he describes him as a strongly-built man who dressed well, with powdered wig, a public figure of consequential appearance and aristocratic manners. Nor, in view of what happened at Priory Street in 1799 (see under Watkins, Joshua), should we disregard the hint given by William Richards of Lynn (1749 - 1818) that there were doctrinal differences within
DAVIES, THOMAS (1837 - 1892), mineralogist Born at S. Pancras, London, 29 December 1837, son of William Davies the palaeontologist (1814 - 1891). After spending some years at sea, he became an assistant in the mineral department of the British Museum in 1858; under Story-Maskelyne (see D.N.B.) he became an experienced mineralogist and was a pioneer in the use of the microscope in the study of rocks. Like his father he was more interested
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College 1830, he joined the church at Castleton and became the founder of the Sunday school at S. Mellons. At the suggestion of his minister, Evan Jones (Gwrwst, 1793 - 1855), he started to preach, and after a year's study at Cardiff under the direction of William Jones, minister of Bethany English Baptist church, he was admitted in 1832 to Bristol Baptist College, and in 1836 accepted a call to the ministry
DAVIES, THOMAS ESSILE (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt; 1820 - 1891), poet and editor Born 20 June 1820 at Dinas Powis, Glamorganshire, son of William (not 'Edward,' the name given in the obituary notice by Watcyn Wyn in Y Geninen, 1891) and Elizabeth David. William David was a miller, and it was in ' Y Felin' (the mill) that he lived; 'miller and farmer' was the description accorded to him in the newspapers when his distinguished son died, but in the entry of his son's birth in
DAVIES, TOM EIRUG (Eirug; 1892 - 1951), Congl. minister, writer and poet philosophy) and B.D. The principal, Thomas Rees, referred to him as one of his brightest students. He gained an M.A. degree in 1931 for a thesis on the contribution of Gwilym Hiraethog (William Rees, 1802 - 1883 to the life and literature of his period. He became minister of the churches at Cwmllynfell, 1919-26, and Soar, Lampeter with Bethel, Parc-y-rhos, 1926-51. He held classes under the auspices of the
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic North Wales (London, 1813), and a similar work, in two volumes, on South Wales, 1815 (Vol. I, Vol. II), which owed much to Iolo Morganwg; he also edited the works of the poets Huw Morys, 1823, and Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1837 - the latter in collaboration with John Jones (Tegid, 1792 - 1852); and further published in 1827 an edition of the metrical translation of the Psalms into Welsh made by William
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (1863 - 1935), journalist and editor Born 7 October 1863, at Talley, Carmarthenshire, the son of Herbert Davies. After the family had moved to Llanelly, William was apprenticed at the office of the Guardian newspaper, he later became a reporter at Cardiff, editor of the Evening Express, assistant editor of the Western Mail, and, on the retirement of H. Lascelles Carr in 1901, editor in chief. Journalism claimed his undivided
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1805 - 1859), Independent minister and schoolmaster
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1785 - 1851), Wesleyan minister and missionary

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