Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Born at Bangor, 2 May 1849, son of William Davies, clerk, and the nephew of John Davies (Gwyneddon, 1832 - 1904). From Garth elementary school he went to the office of the North Wales Chronicle, the local weekly, and his progress was such that at the age of 20 he succeeded his uncle as editor of Cronicl Cymru, a subsidiary paper. On its decease in 1872 he became the representative of the
DAVIES, WILLIAM DANIEL (1838 - 1900), lecturer and author
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID [P.] (1897 - 1969), minister (Presb.), college tutor and author
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr Born 8 August 1851 at Dolgelley, the second son (by the first marriage) of William Davies, Wesleyan minister (1820 - 1875). Nothing pleased him more than to sign his writings ' Ap yr Hen Wyliedydd.' Most of his life was spent in London, and his love for Wales was born from his association with the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion. He was a member of the society, became an officer (in due course), and
DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY (1871 - 1940), poet and author
DAVIES, WILLIAM HUBERT (1893 - 1965), musician
DAVIES, WILLIAM JENKIN (1858 - 1919), Unitarian minister, man of letters, and musician Born at Trecynon, Aberdare, 30 January 1858. He was educated at the Trecynon day schools and at the school maintained by R. Jenkin Jones; he became a pharmacist - hence his interest in the trees and plants of Llandysul parish. After a preparatory period under William James (1848 - 1907) he went to the Unitarian College at Manchester (1878-1881), and later spent a year at Owens College as a
DAVIES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1896 - 1941), specialist in analytical dairy chemistry
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar regions at the time. William Thomas ('Pennar' was added as an adopted name in the 1940s) was educated in Mountain Ash primary and secondary schools, University College of South Wales and Monmouthhsire, in Cardiff, where he graduated with first-class honours degrees in Latin, in 1932 and in English in 1933. Following a year's Teacher Training he went to Balliol College, Oxford, gaining a research degree
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor until he retired. Davies's first major role was in the ATV series Probation Officer as Bill Morgan, with the cast including Sir John Hurt, Honor Blackman, Glyn Houston and Judy Geeson. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s he appeared in many smaller roles on television, in such series as Moulded in Earth, Orlando, Coronation Street, The Newcomers, Conqueror's Road, Smith, The Onedin Line, Canterbury
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, . A staunch Royalist, he was besieged in his house at Gwysaney, 12 April 1645, by Sir William Brereton's forces. The front door which he put up in 1640 still bears the mark of the siege. He was imprisoned in 1658, in Chester castle whence he was released by an order signed by Cromwell, on 30 June, and which is still extant among the papers kept at Gwysaney. He was high sheriff for Flintshire, in

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