Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN IDRIS (Ioan Idris; 1821 - 1889), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Meironnydd, son of John Davies, bookbinder and stationer, he attended school at Dolgelley and was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle, Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill, 1780 - 1861), carpenter, who, together with John Jones (Idris Fychan, 1825 - 1887), taught him the Welsh bardic rules. At the age of 21 he emigrated to Utica, N.Y., where he became an elder in the Welsh Calvinistic
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), translator, chaplain, and one of the most successful of the early climbers of the Alps Son of John Davies, cleric and philosopher. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Preacher at Oxford, chaplain to Queen Victoria, an advocate of higher education of women, and an associate of Frederick Denison Maurice. He was joint author (with D. J. Vaughan) of a well-known translation of The Republic of Plato He was one of the 31 founding
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - see DAVIES, JOHN
DAVIES, JOHN LLOYD (1801 - 1860) Blaendyffryn, Alltyrodyn,, M.P.
DAVIES, JOHN OSSIAN (1851 - 1916), Congregational minister and author Born at Pendre, Cardigan, 10 November 1851, son of Daniel and Phoebe Davies. Starting life as printer and journalist, he edited Y Fellten at Merthyr Tydfil, and became secretary of the South Wales Temperance Society. He began to preach at Merthyr and entered the Memorial College, Brecon, in 1873. He was invited to succeed William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog, 1802 - 1883) in Liverpool, but accepted a
DAVIES, JOHN PARK (1879 - 1937), Unitarian minister Born at Blaenpant-y-Creuddyn, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 28 May 1879, the son of Eleazar and Mary Davies; educated at the board school and county school, Llandysul, and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated B.A. with honours in Semitic languages in 1902. He entered Manchester College, Oxford, 1902, was awarded the Russell Martineau Hebrew prize, 1904, and the (university
DAVIES, JOHN PHILIP (1786 - 1832), Baptist minister, commentator, and divine Born 9 March 1786, son of David Davies, a clergyman at Bangor Teifi and Henllan, Cardiganshire. He joined the Baptists at Tre-fach and later became a member at Llandysul, where his father's brother, Daniel Davies, was minister. He began to preach in 1804 and was persuaded by Titus Lewis to go on a missionary tour to North Wales where, in 1810, he settled at Holywell as minister to the Flintshire
DAVIES, JOHN SALMON (1940 - 2016), scientist John Davies was born on 7 June 1940 at St. Dogmael's, Cardiganshire, the son of Theophilus Salmon Davies and his wife Megan (née Davies). He was born at his mother's home, but was raised in Trelech, Carmarthenshire, where his father was a blacksmith before turning to farming. John attended Trelech Primary School and then Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Carmarthen where he first became
DAVIES, JONATHAN CEREDIG (1859 - 1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist Born 22 May 1859, at Llangunllo, Cardiganshire, son of J. C. Davies, he traced his descent from Walter Morgan, of Tangogoyan (born 1729), who is recorded as a landed proprietor in the parish of Llanddewi-brefi. At the age of 16, in 1875, Davies went to the newly-founded Welsh colony in Patagonia. He returned to Wales in 1891 [and in 1892 was editor of Yr Athrofa, in which ' Anturiaethau yn Nhir y
DAVIES, JOSEPH (? - 1831?), solicitor and founder of the periodical Y Brud a Sylwydd Nothing is known for certain about Joseph Davies. It is said that he was born at Builth Wells, that he was a solicitor in Liverpool, and that he died in 1831. He was the founder of the periodical Y Brud a Sylwydd, of which eight numbers appeared between January and August 1828, the last six being bilingual. The editor accepted the notions of his age about the antiquity of the Welsh language and
DAVIES, JOSEPH E. (1812 - 1881), Welsh Calvinistic minister in America and author
DAVIES, JOSEPH EDWARD (1876 - 1958), international lawyer Born 29 November 1876 in Watertown, Wisconsin, U.S.A., the son of Edward Davies, carpenter, and his wife, Rachel, an evangelist and a poet known as ' Rahel o Fôn '. He spent part of his childhood in Anglesey and, as an university student, he spent each summer in Wales, part of the time with Evan Rowland Jones, the U. S. consul in Cardiff and a native of Tregaron, like Davies's grandfather. Later

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