Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian The Literature of the Kymry by Thomas Stephens, but was never published (the manuscript is now in the National Library of Wales). He was a frequent contributor to the periodicals of his time, and a novel written by him appeared in Y Byd Cymreig, 1862. He published his Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood, 1858, and Traethawd ar Caio a'i Hynafiaethau, 1862. A volume of his poetry, Gweithiau Gwilym
DAVIES, WILLIAM (d. 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr ' described by Pugh's grandson, Gwilym Pue, as having ministered to the Rhiwledyn recusants. A letter written in 1587 to archbishop Whitgift by William Griffith of Caernarvon (M.P. for the borough, 1586 described the discovery of the cave and the failure to arrest its occupants. Three years later he was arrested by Foulk Thomas at Holyhead, in the company of Robert Pugh and of four youths destined for the
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 Wesleyaidd (1866-75), to which latter periodical he regularly contributed over a long period of years a column known as ' Llith yr Hen Wyliedydd.' His chief literary works were Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol, 1857; Agoriad i'r Ysgrythyrau, 1860; Athrawiaeth yr Iawn, 1873; John Bunyan a'i Amserau, 1900 (reprinted from Yr Eurgrawn, 1867). He was the first finance secretary of the North Wales province (1855-60, 1863-6
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian appointed first assistant librarian under Sir John Ballinger at the young National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth. When Ballinger retired in 1930 Davies succeeded him as chief librarian, a position which he held until his death. The task which faced him was a formidable one - to continue and develop the work, so successfully begun, of building up in Wales a national library which would rank among the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric found in Nodau y gwir Gristion (Carmarthen, I. Daniel, n.d.). He is believed to have translated into Welsh John Newton's book, Twenty six Letters on Religious Texts, by Omicron (Carmarthen, J. Ross, 1777). He died 17 August 1787 and was buried in the churchyard of S. Thomas's, Neath. David William, Peter Williams, and Williams of Pantycelyn, wrote elegies on his death.
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 DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar New Testament, in the Memorial College, Brecon. Among his contemporaries in Cardiff were the classicist J. Gwyn Griffiths and his friend Pennar Davies, and there, and in Brecon, one who also became a renowned New Testament scholar, Isaac Thomas. With his mind set on becoming an Independent minister, W. D. Davies continued his training at Cheshunt College, Cambridge, gaining a B.A. degree in part ii
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, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
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

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