Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID [P.] (1897 - 1969), minister (Presb.), college tutor and author Born 18 January 1897 in Glynceiriog, Denbighshire, only son of Isaac Davies, Presb. minister, and his wife. His father moved to Rhyd-ddu, then to Bryn-rhos, and finally to Bangor. The son was educated at Caernarfon county school and Friars School, Bangor. He gained a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, but his studies were interrupted by the war. Having registered as a conscientious objector
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 Born 3 July 1871 at Pillgwenlly, Newport, Monmouth; son of Mary Ann and Francis Boase Davies, iron-moulder. He received an elementary education and, at school, became interested in poetry. On completing his apprenticeship as a carver and gilder, he tramped in U.S.A. and Canada, but lost his foot in a train-jumping accident in March 1899. He returned to England, determined to succeed as a poet
DAVIES, WILLIAM HUBERT (1893 - 1965), musician Born 24 May 1893 at Abersychan, Monmouthshire, and educated at West Monmouth Grammar School, Pontypool. At the age of fifteen he won a Sainton open scholarship to study the violin at the Royal Academy of Music; he was a pupil of Hans Wessely and later at Dresden of Leopold Auer. From 1919 to 1923 he was a member of the string trio which was formed by Henry Walford Davies at the University College
DAVIES, WILLIAM JENKIN (1858 - 1919), Unitarian minister, man of letters, and musician
DAVIES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1896 - 1941), specialist in analytical dairy chemistry Born 23 February 1896, the son of David (a farmer) and Jane Davies of Cwmlogin, Llansawel, Carmarthenshire. He attended Llandeilo county school before joining the Royal Horse Artillery in 1914; he afterwards saw active service in France. He graduated B.Sc. (Wales) with first-class honours in chemistry from University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, then proceeding to Gonville and Caius College
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Pennar Davies was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 12 November 1911, only son of Joseph and Annie (née Moss) Davies. He had three sisters. His father was a miner from the Rhondda Valley and his mother from the Anglicized part of Pembrokeshire, English was the language of the home. The family were poor, partly due to Joseph's mining injuries as well as to the depressed state of the industrial
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor Windsor Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town in the East End of London, the son of Anyan Davies and his wife Maggie (née Jones). He had one sister, Glenys. Both his parents were Welsh speakers. In 1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the family moved back to Anyan Davies's home village of Nant-y-Moel in Ogmore Vale. Windsor attended Ogmore Grammar School, and
DAVIES, ZACCHEUS (fl. 1737-1770), writer of religious carols (halsingod)
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, co-heirs, LETITIA and MARY. The former, who obtained Llannerch estate as her share of her brother's property, married Daniel Leo, of Bath, and, dying without issue on 11 December 1801, aged 67 years, devised her possessions to her cousin, Anne Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Peter Davies, and wife of the Rev. George Allanson. Mary, who succeeded to Gwysaney, married Philip Puleston, of Hafod-y
DAVIS family, coalowners DAVIS, DAVID, sen. (1797 - 1866), son of William David Jeffrey and Margaret (Lewis), was born in 1797 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire. After serving as apprentice to his maternal uncle, Lewis Lewis, a grocer and draper at Merthyr Tydfil, he opened a shop of his own at Hirwaun, and soon afterwards married Mary Lewis, who seems to have been a daughter of Thomas Lewis, another uncle of his. They
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster assistant master at the school. Towards the end of 1768 he became, jointly with David Lloyd (1724 - 1779), minister of Llwyn-rhyd-owen, Ciliau Aeron, Allt-y-blaca, Pen-rhiw, and Mydroilyn, and later on of Bwlch-y-fadfa as well, making his home at Plas-bach, Ciliau Aeron, where he married Anne Evans of Foelallt, grand-daughter of ' Squire Davies ' of Plas-bach. About 1782 he moved to Castellhywel in the

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