Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Gwilym Prys Davies was born on 8 December 1923 in Oswestry, Shropshire, the son of William Davies (1874-1949) and his wife Mary Matilda (née Roberts (1888-1974). His parents had moved from Llanegryn in Merionethshire in 1921 to run a guest house in Oswestry. He had one sister, Mairwen (1922-2004). The family moved back to Llanegryn when Gwilym was five, and he was brought up in Pen-y-Banc, a
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Gwynne Henton Davies was born in Aberdare, Glamorgan, in 1906. He was the son of John Davies and Edith Henton. His father's family had moved to the Valleys in search of work from the Vale of Glamorgan, and his mother came from a family of rural tailors in Pembrokeshire. His parents had married in 1904 and Gwynne was born in 1906, his brother, John Mansel, being born five years later. He was
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist old his mother died, and he was sent to Banbury for a period (having lost his Welsh on his return). The children were raised at Llain by an aunt, Mary Davies. In 1915 he went to Tregaron county school where everyone called him Kitchener because his father, with his moustache, resembled the British politician of that name. The father, of strong build, worked in Garw colliery and returned to farm the
DAVIES, JENNIE EIRIAN (1925 - 1982), journalist Jennie Howells was born on 6 February 1925, one of six children of Jane and David Howells, Waunrhelfa, Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire. Two of her brothers, Richard and Dewi, and a sister Mary died young of tuberculosis. Jennie was educated at Llanpumsaint Elementary School, Carmarthen County School for Girls and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where she gained first class honours in Welsh
DAVIES, JOHN (Siôn Gymro; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister, linguist, and commentator Born at Bwlch-yr-helygen in the parish of Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 5 March 1804, but his parents - David and Mary Davies - shortly afterwards moved to a near-by farm called Castell-y-geifr. His father, whose education was above the average, was his first teacher, but when he was 7 years old he was sent to the school at Neuaddlwyd kept by Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842). He began to preach on 1 July
DAVIES, JOHN (1860 - 1939), Welsh bibliographer and genealogist Born 7 August 1860 at Llundain-fach, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, son of John William and Mary Davies. He was educated at Capel Dewi national school and at William Eilir Evans's school, Llandysul. He then worked on a farm in the district and afterwards as a collier at Mardy, Rhondda Fach. Having been gassed in the colliery explosion of 1889, he set up in business at Lampeter, selling boots and clogs
DAVIES, JOHN (1938 - 2015), historian John Davies was born on 25 April 1938 in Llwynypia Hospital, Glamorganshire, the son of Daniel Davies (d. 1950), carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Potter), a teacher, of Dumfries Street, Treorchy. His grandfather William Davies died in the Maerdy Pit Explosion of 1885 and his family relationship to the Rhondda Valleys and its coal industry was absolutely essential to his view of Wales and the
DAVIES, JOHN DANIEL (1874 - 1948), editor and author Born 12 January 1874, at Gwynfryn, Aberderfyn, Ponciau, Denbighshire, one of the seven children of Daniel Davies and his wife. Having completed his schooling he was apprenticed to David Jones, printer, at Rhosymedre, and afterwards to Richard Mills, printer of the Rhos Herald. He married Mary Ellen, daughter of William Humphreys ('Elihu'), of Blaenau Ffestiniog, 25 April 1900. He settled in
DAVIES, JOHN GRIFFITH (1836 - 1861), poet and translator Second of the four children of John Davies (Siôn Gymro), Yetwen, Glandwr, Pembrokeshire (1804 - 1884), and his wife Phoebe, daughter of J. D. Griffiths and grand-daughter of John Griffiths, Glandwr (1731 - 1811). All four children died when comparatively young: Mary Ann in 1860 when she was 26, Elizabeth in 1859 at 19, David in 1848 aged 5, and John Griffith, who was lost overboard, near
DAVIES, JOHN GWYNORO (1855 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister years he was chairman of the Barmouth urban council; and served on almost every Welsh public committee. He wrote several articles for Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig, and was also the author of Flashes from the Welsh Pulpit, to which Thomas Charles Edwards contributed an introduction. He married (1) Mary, daughter of John Jones (Ivon, 1820 - 1898), and (2) Jeannie Mary, daughter of William Watkin, Muriau
DAVIES, JOHN PARK (1879 - 1937), Unitarian minister Born at Blaenpant-y-Creuddyn, Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 28 May 1879, the son of Eleazar and Mary Davies; educated at the board school and county school, Llandysul, and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated B.A. with honours in Semitic languages in 1902. He entered Manchester College, Oxford, 1902, was awarded the Russell Martineau Hebrew prize, 1904, and the (university
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Born 16 May 1894, son of William L.T. and M.L. (née Brown) Davies of Chester. He was a great-grandson of Samuel Davies ' the first ', a Methodist minister and his wife Mary (née Twiston). Out of respect for his great-grandfather, he wrote The Rev. Samuel Davies (the first) and his times (1932), which is an English version of the Welsh biography (1866). He was educated at Charterhouse and

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