Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID CHARLES (1826 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College 1848, and graduated M.A. in 1849. His career as a preacher started in his home church (Tabernacle, Aberystwyth) in 1848. In 1850 he was admitted to membership of the South Wales Association and was its assistant secretary for two years. He was ordained at Llanelly in 1852, and held temporary or fixed pastorates at the following: Newtown (English), 1850, Alpha church, Builth (1851-3), and again (1856
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS (1876 - 1962), dramatist Born 24 August 1876 at Nant-y-moel, Llandyfodwg, Glamorganshire, son of Thomas Davies and his wife Martha (née Thomas). He was educated at Gelli, Ystrad, Rhondda valley, and Thomas James's school, Llandysul, Cardiganshire. His father intended him for the ministry, but after graduating at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1903, he became a teacher in the Central Foundation School
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer entered Didsbury College, Manchester. He served his ministry at Abergele, Leeds, Menai Bridge, Port Dinorwic, Tregarth (thrice), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbigh, Manchester (twice), Liverpool, Bangor and Coedpoeth. In 1908 he married Jane Eleanor (Nel) Evans, Gwynlys Shop, Bwlchgwyn, and they had 3 children: Dyddgu, Arfor and Gwen. He retired in 1946 because of his wife's illness and moved to Bangor
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, ELLIS (1872 - 1962), priest and antiquarian died 3 April 1962 at Bryn Derwen, Caerwys, Flintshire, and was survived by 3 sons and 3 daughters.
DAVIES, FRANCIS (1605 - 1675), bishop of Llandaff Peterborough as chaplain. At the Restoration, 1660, he returned as rector of Llan-gan and applied for the tithes of Llantrithyd. He petitioned for the archdeaconry of Llandaff on the grounds of his ejection and loyalty to the king's cause; Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, endorsed the petition and Davies became archdeacon. In 1661 he received his D.D. He was consecrated bishop of Llandaff 24 August 1667
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, on 3 July 1951 and her ashes were interred at Llandinam.
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales Born 24 March 1879 at Cwmfelin, Bedlinog, Glamorganshire (where there is a memorial tablet to him), one of the sons of D.J. Davies, minister (B). He was a pupil teacher at Bedlinog when his father moved to the neighbourhood of Llangadog and he became a pupil at Llandeilo grammar school. He began preaching as early as 1895, and trained for the ministry at the Midland Baptist College, Nottingham
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Testamentum, III. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1955, pp. xi-xix;'Contemporary Religious Trends: The Old Testament', The Expository Times, LXVII, I (October, 1955), pp. 3-7; Joint editor with Alan Richardson, The Teacher's Commentary, London, SCM Press, 1955. Published in America as The Twentieth Century Bible Commentary, Harper and Brothers, 1956; 'The Literature of the Old Testament' and 'Exodus' in The Teacher's
DAVIES, JAMES (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648 - 1722), translator, copyist and collector of manuscripts refers to this event in his poems - and there is evidence that he lived in Penllyn, Meironnydd, for a time before returning to Llanllawddog, Carmarthenshire, where he died 24 September 1722. It is recorded that he was buried there 27 September 1722. There are indications that his later years were made wearisome by poverty and ill health. The tradition that Siôn Rhydderch (John Roderick), the almanac
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister , and died at Gwernllwyn Isaf, 29 April 1760. The diaries of Philip David of Penmain under 3 May, have a rueful reference to his former great popularity and the disesteem into which he had fallen through instability and time-serving; and Edmund Jones (15 August 1773) refers tersely to him as 'an apostate' - it would also seem from this passage that a daughter of James Davies's had married David
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist Rhondda valley and Plaid Cymru. He died 25 August 1952, and was buried in the cemetery of Llether Ddu, Trealaw. A plaque on the wall of Llwynpïod chapel in memory of him was unveiled on 3 September 1977, and in 1980 an anthology of his chief works was published.

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