Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN LLOYD (1801 - 1860) Blaendyffryn, Alltyrodyn,, M.P. Born at Aberystwyth 1 November 1801. He became articled to a solicitor, and at 24 years of age had succeeded to a practice in Newcastle Emlyn. In 1825 he married Anne, daughter of John Lloyd, Allt-yr-odyn, and through his marriage inherited that estate. He married, secondly, in 1857, Elizabeth Bluett, the only child of Thomas Bluett Hardwicke of Tytherington Grange, Gloucestershire. He was a J.P
DAVIES, JOSEPH E. (1812 - 1881), Welsh Calvinistic minister in America and author Park on 1 January 1881.
DAVIES, JOSEPH EDWARD (1876 - 1958), international lawyer . In 1946, he received the Medal of Merit, the highest civilian honour awarded by the U.S. government, and he received similar honours from the governments of ten other countries. He published articles in various journals between 1913 and 1947 as well as reports on industry, corporation tax and legal topics. His influential book, Mission to Moscow (1941), brought him wider fame. He married (1) Emlen
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, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician , 1948, 170-1.
DAVIES, MORRIS (Moi Plas; 1891 - 1961), quarryman, local historian and researcher - NLW MS 17843-17932 (there is a selection of them on microfilm in the Merioneth Record Office). Morris Davies (or ' Moi Plas ' as he was known locally), was a cultured, likeable and humorous person. He was twice married: (1) in 1919 to Kate Lewis, Cwm Cynfal, Ffestiniog (died 1929), and four daughters were born to them; (2) in 1931 to Lizzie Jones, Tanygrisiau (died 1968). He died in Blaenau
DAVIES, RICHARD (1501? - 1581), bishop and biblical translator style is much more characteristic of Salesbury. Davies wrote the prefatory Epistol at y Cembru, as well as translating 1 Timothy and Hebrews - 2 Peter for the Testament. A quarrel is said to have prevented their promised completion of the Old Testament, but Davies left manuscript proof of his further attempts at translating parts of the New Testament. He died 7 November 1581.
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian which Bardd Nantglyn published, with minor alterations, without reference to their true author. He died 1 December 1835.
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder noticed; ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942) married (1) Thomas Edward Ellis and (2) the Rev. Peter Hughes Griffiths; WALTER ERNEST LLEWELLYN (1874 - 1941) was a physician; and ELIZA (Lily) (1876 - 1939) married J. E. Hughes (1865 - 1932).
DAVIES, ROBERT (1816 - 1905), philanthropist Born at Llangefni, Anglesey, 1 April 1816; for his family connections see under Richard Davies (1818 - 1896). Educated at Llangefni national school and in a school at Chester, he at first managed an iron-foundry at Caernarvon for his father, but afterwards joined his family at Menai Bridge. Though he became high sheriff of Anglesey (1862) and D.L., he took no part in public affairs; and apart
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College on ' Ministerial education in Wales ' was published. He was chairman of the Welsh Baptist Union in 1874, a vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and chairman of the Haverfordwest school board. He married (1) Jane (died 1857), daughter of Lewis Williams, Merthyr, and (2) Emma (died 1899), daughter of the Rev. W. Davies, Hailsham.
DAVIES, THOMAS WITTON (1851 - 1923), Baptist minister, and Semitic scholar ) to the National Library of Wales. He was twice married: (1) 1880, to Mary Anne Moore, who died in 1910, leaving one daughter, and (2) 1911, to Hilda Mabel Everett, by whom he had a son and a daughter. He died 12 May 1923.

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