Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian
DAVIES, WILLIAM (d. 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr priesthood, whom he was conducting on their way to Ireland with a view to their entering a Spanish seminary. Next day he was taken to Beaumaris, and examined in the presence of Hugh Bellot, bishop of Bangor, and when Davies, on further magisterial examination, confessed his mission but refused to implicate his hosts, he was separated from his companions and confined to a 'dark stinking dungeon.' After a
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1756 - 1823), compiler of an unpublished history of Glamorgan Born in 1756, he spent most of his time at Cringell, Llantwit-juxta-Neath, dying 21 March 1823. Davies accumulated much material for his projected history of Glamorgan. In 1803 and 1810 he circulated proposals for publishing this history; from the 1810 prospectus it is clear that he intended to issue three quarto volumes at two guineas per volume. That his manuscript never reached finality, but
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), palaeontologist Born 13 July 1814 at Holywell, Flintshire, son of Thomas Davies. He joined the staff of the British Museum in 1843, and after working on the mineral collection turned his attention to fossil fishes and then to vertebrate fossils generally; he became so well acquainted with the latter and so skilful in reconstructing extinct forms of life that he eventually took charge of the entire vertebrate
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister ) and was general secretary of the province from 1865 to 1875. His first wife was Jane Williams, Ty Newydd, Abergele (died 26 January 1854, aged 33); William Edwards Davies was their son. His second wife was Mary Humphreys of Aberystwyth (died 1875), widow of Hugh Humphreys of Holywell. He himself died shortly after his second wife, 13 August 1875, and was buried with her at Aberystwyth.
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian Born at Plas Gwyn Schoolhouse, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, 11 October 1887, the third child and younger son of William Davies and his wife Jane (Evans), both natives of Llanafan, Cardiganshire. His father, formerly the Earl of Lisburne's gamekeeper, was then similarly employed at Broom Hall, near Pwllheli. When he was five his father entered the service of Sir Osmond Williams, Castell
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric Gyfylchi, where he ministered for the rest of his life. He preached and travelled extensively in Wales, and so great was the emotional uplift of his sermons that when Howel Davies died it was he who was deemed fit to preside over the Pembrokeshire societies. He was also a hymnwriter, and some of his hymns were published in David William's Myfyrdod Pererin (Carmarthen, I. Daniel, n.d.); while two are
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist Born 1 March 1886 in Cwarter Coch, a thatched cottage in Cwmgrenig, Glanaman, Carmarthenshire, third son of the eight children of Daniel Davies and his wife. His father was a coalminer from Ysguborwen farm, Betws, and his mother was a native of Bryn, Llanelli. At 13 he joined his father and brothers in Gelliceidrim drift mine. He was a doorboy working with hauliers for some months but his father
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist recipient of many honours from college and university. He had married, in 1888, Mary Davies (1855 - 1930), widely known on the concert platform; in 1891 he became a barrister of the Inner Temple. He contributed the first four chapters to the history of the University of Wales and its colleges, published in 1905. He died at Worthing on 25 November of that year and is commemorated in his college by a bronze
DAVIES, WILLIAM DANIEL (1838 - 1900), lecturer and author Drych; he also attained much popularity as a public lecturer. He died 22 March 1900 at Wrexham when he was over in Wales on a lecture tour. He published several works, including Llwybrau Bywyd neu Haner Can Mlynedd o Oes Wm. D. Davies (Utica, 1889), Cartref Dedwydd ac Ysgol y Teulu, and America a Gweledigaethau Bywyd, 1894.
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar W. D. Davies was born in Glanamman, Carmarthenshire on December 9 1911, the son of David Davies, a miner, and Rachel Powell, his wife. Educated in Glanamman Primary School and Amman Valley Grammar School, Ammanford, he graduated with honours in classical Greek and Semitic Languages in the University College of South Wales and Monmouth, Cardiff, in 1934, completing his BD, with distinction in the

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