Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN OSSIAN (1851 - 1916), Congregational minister and author
DAVIES, JOHN PARK (1879 - 1937), Unitarian minister
DAVIES, JOHN PHILIP (1786 - 1832), Baptist minister, commentator, and divine
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, LEWIS (1777 - 1828), major-general son of John Davies of Crugiau, Llanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth, joined the army in 1791, fought on the Continent (1794, 1799), in the West Indies (1796), and in the Peninsular War, distinguishing himself particularly at Salamanca (1812). He married Jane, daughter of Matthew Davies, of Cwm Cynfelyn, retired to Tan-y-bwlch, Aberystwyth, and died there 10 May 1828, aged 51. Jane Davies's sister, Anne
DAVIES, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet Born 17 October 1846 at Portmadoc, where she lived all her life, the elder daughter of captain Lewis Davies and Jennet, his wife, of the Tregunter Arms, Portmadoc. She was educated at a private school at Portmadoc which was maintained by a daughter of William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog). At an early age she showed an aptitude for writing poetry and received instruction from Ioan Madog (John Williams
DAVIES, MARY (1855 - 1930), singer Born in London, 27 February 1855, daughter of William Davies (Mynorydd, 1826 - 1901). Her singing at the Welsh concerts in the capital brought her into prominence while she was still young; her first teachers were Henry Brinley Richards and Megan Watts Hughes. She joined the Welsh Choral Union which was then under the conductorship of John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia, 1826 - 1913), and, in 1873 won a
DAVIES, MATTHEW (fl. 1620), politician was the eldest son of Edward Davies of Chiches Grove (or Chisgrove), Wiltshire, and of the same family as Sir John Davies (1569 - 1626), poet and lawyer (see D.N.B.). Probably a client of the earls of Pembroke, he was returned, under the 3rd earl's patronage, for Cardiff in James I's first Parliament (5 March 1604), making a strong stand for the interests of the borough against the proposal to
DAVIES, MORRIS (Meurig Ebrill; 1780 - 1861), poet Born at Dolgelley, he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually worked at his trade in some of the larger houses of the neighbourhood, e.g. Nannau, Hengwrt, Dolserau, and Caerynwch. When he was about 13 years of age he came to know Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant, 1739 - 1810), who was then at Bala. He wrote numerous poems on a variety of subjects, many of them dealing with local occurrences
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician (Gwilym Glan Hafren, 1788 - 1838) at Welshpool. After six months there, he kept school, at Pont Robert, Llanfyllin, Syston, Leicestershire, Llanfair Caereinion, and Llanfyllin again, till 1836. The parson of Syston was Edward Morgan (1784 - 1869), who was at the time engaged on his Life of Thomas Charles, and it was Davies who copied for him the 150 letters by Charles used in that book. In 1836 he
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer example, the 2nd edition of Clerus Britanus, included in vol. v of Athenae Britannicae, is dated 1716. Also there is extant a short Latin ode of greeting to Thomas Parker, lord Macclesfield, who was raised to the peerage in 1716 (see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, vi, 309).
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist Noëlle Davies was born at Bushy Park, Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon on 25 December 1899, the eldest daughter of Thomas Cornwall Ffrench (died 1941), farmer, and his artistic wife Georgina (née Kennedy, died 1941); she had a younger sister, Rosamund (died 1966). Privately-tutored to the age of thirteen, the Church of Ireland congregant attended the French School, Bray, County Wicklow (1914-1918

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