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DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1814 - 1875), Hebraist College, London (1844-7); (c) professor of Semitics at McGill College, Montreal (1847-57); and (d) classical and oriental tutor at the former Stepney - but then Regent's Park - Baptist College (1857-75). He married Eliza Try of Portland, Maine, during his first stay in Canada; he outlived her and died 19 July 1875 at his son's house in Frome. His literary work includes: (a) an annotated edition of E
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter statement: 'I taught them to sing at church.' In 1843 he is said to have been a 'contractor' at Pontyates or Pontyberem, that is, he acted as a middleman between a number of workmen and the pit owners, and 'Shoni Sgubor-fawr' (John Jones, c.1810-1867) may have been in his employment. In the autumn of 1843 he was associated with 'Shoni' in various acts of incendiarism and gatebreaking, and, like 'Shoni
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician died 23 August 1902; (c) Thomas; and (d) William. He died at Lucca, Italy, 2 May 1865, and was buried at Biarritz.
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author at Cardiff, but removed in 1877 to Weston-super-mare, where he published (1883) Echoes from the Welsh Hills. This book brought him the personal friendship of C. H. Spurgeon, and in 1884 he became pastor of Regent's Park church. Domestic bereavement and ill health compelled him to leave London in 1887 for Brighton, where he ministered for twenty-one years - but he frequently deputized for Spurgeon
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS (1876 - 1962), dramatist they had one daughter. D.T. Davies gained prominence as one of the Welsh social dramatists of the first half of the 20th c. He came into contact with John Oswald Francis while he was a student at Aberystwyth, and he had an opportunity to get to know contemporary English plays when he was a teacher in London. Ibsen's plays were popular in the London theatres and they provided a pattern for D.T. Davies
DAVIES, DONALD WATTS (1924 - 2000), pioneer of digital computing, and of packet switching for data communication and the machine, and the switched circuits of fixed bandwidth of the telephone network that carried the data. He considered that the kind of network needed would treat its traffic as short messages. He called this 'packet switching' and pioneering work in this field at NPL continued for 10 years. He turned to the practical application of cryptography to computer security c.1975. He designed the
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher in 1859. Other important works published by Davies were The Birds of Breconshire, by E. C. Phillips, 1899; Theophilus Jones, F.S.A., historian: his life, letters, and literary remains (ed. by E.D.), 1905; and Parochial registers and records: being transcripts from parish documents, compiled by E.D., 1906. He died at his residence, Dinas Lodge, Brecon, 7 February 1919, and was buried in the Brecon
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr, born 24 May 1789 and christened 26 May at Llanycil (Bala). All our knowledge of her life comes from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis (two vols., 1857), compiled by Jane Williams, Ysgafell, from notes of her conversation. Left by the death of her mother (c. 1795-6) to the care of an elder sister whom she detested, Elizabeth quickly became a rebel. Though taken
DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 - 1888), bard and 'archdruid' religions of the East; he believed that Christianity was but Druidism in a Jewish garb. In consequence, as he claimed to have succeeded to the post of archdruid after the death in 1847 of Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, he began, c. 1853, to hold religious and druidical services near the 'Maen Chwyf' (the Rocking Stone) at Pontypridd. These meetings were held at the time of the two equinoxes and
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary buried on 27 March at Abney Park cemetery, London. A number of his papers are lodged at the Library of the Institute of Actuaries, amongst them An investigation of the basis for calculating life contingencies &c, i.e. twenty-four reports which he wrote in 1831, and A paper on the construction of logarithms (1849). A hundred and five blocks of his key to Bonnycastle's Trigonometry are lodged at the
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Dictionary of Biblical Biography, ed. C. L. Wallis (1970); 'Gehard von Rad' in Old Testament Theology in Contemporary Discussion, ed. Robert Laurin (1970), with J. E. Morgan-Wynne, The Last Seven Days (1999).

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