Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), translator, chaplain, and one of the most successful of the early climbers of the Alps mountaineering, 'An ascent of one of the Mischabel-Hörner, called the Dom' (Peaks, Passes and Glaciers, first series, 1859) but Leslie Stephen, one of his pupils and the best writer of his generation on mountains, thought highly of him. He married Mary Compton, and their daughter Margaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944) was a women's rights activist and pioneer of the Co-operative movement.
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Liverpool University. He married (1), in 1918, Mary Powell but the marriage was annulled; and (2), in 1924, Dorothy Savile Jackson of Brougton Park, Manchester; they had two sons and a daughter. He spent two years with the Imperial Tobacco Co. and then three years in the army (1915-1918), when he was seriously wounded and discharged with the honorary title of captain. After farming in Herefordshire till
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations her death she was Secretary of Radnor Walk Independent Church, Chelsea in London. She represented the Union of Welsh Independents on the Peace Forum of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland and, in 1993, was appointed as Wales' co-President of the ecumenical body itself. As part of her work, she was invited to join a delegation that traveled to Jordan to develop a better understanding between
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
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister the Welsh Baptist Union, and chairman in 1888. [See article on John Rufus Williams, which indicates that he would have been co-secretary of the Welsh Baptist Union, since John Rufus Williams also held the post from its foundation.] For a period he edited Yr Athraw, and he was editor of Y Greal from 1871 to 1918. He married, 1872, Sarah Jane, daughter of Owen and Catherine Ellis, of Bryn y Pin
DAVIES, RHISIART MORGAN (1903 - 1958), scientist and professor of physics Polytechnic Institute, 1956-57. He contributed a large number of articles to various scientific journals, the most important being ' A critical study of the Hopkinson pressure bar ' in Trans. Roy. Soc. in 1948. He was also co-editor and contributor to Surveys in Mechanics (1956), and was responsible for a series of radio lectures on modern science during the 1930s. He had many recreations. He was organist
DAVIES, RHYS JOHN (1877 - 1954), politician and trade union official vicinity of his native village and then migrated to the Rhondda Valley, where he worked for 10 years in coalmines in Ferndale and Ton Pentre. In 1901 he was appointed cashier to the Ton Co-operative Society and during the four years he occupied this post he devoted himself to organising in south Wales the Amalgamated Union of Co-operative Employees. In 1906 he moved to Manchester to become a full-time
DAVIES, RICHARD OWEN (1894 - 1962), scientist and professor of agricultural chemistry Born in Ganllwyd, near Dolgellau, Merionethshire, 25 May 1894, son of Owen Davies, Congl. minister, and his wife. He was educated at Dolgellau grammar school and the University College, Aberystwyth, where he obtained an M.Sc. degree in 1916. After five years as an industrial chemist with the Nobel Explosives Co., he was appointed assistant lecturer in agricultural chemistry at his old college
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian warmly supported by him. It was he who won the prize at Caerwys in 1798 for an awdl on 'Cariad i'n Gwlad,' and in the provincial eisteddfod of Dyfed held at Carmarthen in 1819 he was co-adjudicator with Iolo Morganwg. His successes included the prize at Wrexham in 1820 for an awdl on the death of George III, and several prizes at Beaumaris in 1832. But his eisteddfod activities brought him also a good
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman being something of a feminist within the teaching profession. In 1906, after attending one of Keir Hardie's election meetings at Merthyr Tydfil, Davies was propelled into joining the ILP. In 1908 she married Edward or Ted Davies, a fellow teacher and an activist within the local co-operative movement. At about the same time Rose Davies was chosen as the first secretary of the Women's Co-operative
DAVIES, STEPHEN (d. 1794), revived the defunct 17th century Baptist church at Carmarthen town, and came to live there - in Lammas Street; and in 1768 (Joshua Thomas, Hist. Bapt. Assoc., 62) Ffynnonhenry and Priory Street were incorporated as a single church. In 1775 some members wished to have Stephen Davies ordained co-pastor, but there was so much opposition that a schism arose. Davies's opponents removed to the old Priory - this was the congregation which afterwards became the Dark
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College of the English Baptist church at Merthyr Tydfil. He also established a school there and became a prominent figure in the life of the town. In 1856 he became principal of the Baptist College and co-pastor of Bethesda church at Haverfordwest, where he laboured with great success until his retirement in 1894. He died 10 March 1895. His address to the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland in 1867

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