Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 deal of notoriety, as it was he, together with William Owen Pughe and Dewi Silin (David Richards, 1783 - 1826), who gave the prize to Edward Hughes (1772 - 1850) of Bodfari instead of to Dewi Wyn (David Owen, 1784 - 1841) for an awdl on 'Elusengarwch' at the Denbigh eisteddfod of 1819. Some of his poems were published in 1798 under the title Cnewyllyn mewn Gwisg, which was followed in 1803 by
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder The youngest son of David Davies, skinner, and Jonett, daughter of Robert Jones, Aberllefenni, Meironnydd, Robert Davies was born at Machynlleth and migrated to Aberystwyth. With his cousin, Owen Jones (1787 - 1828), he was one of the founders of the Sunday school at Trefechan, Aberystwyth, in connection with Tabernacle chapel, and its permanent superintendent. It was at his house in Great
DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814 - 1867), musician Born 16 June 1814 at Segar farm, Henllan, near Denbigh. He lost his mother when he was 4 years of age and was brought up at Bron-haul, Henllan, by an uncle. He was apprenticed to a painter at S. Asaph. In 1834 he moved to Bangor, where he came into prominence as a musician and was elected precentor of the Wesleyan chapel. In 1837 he married Margaret, daughter of Owen Williams of Tros-y-canol
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1788 - 1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister known as ' Samuel Davies, 1st '. Born 9 June 1788 at Maes-y-groes, Cilcain, Flintshire. Converted to religion at the age of 13, he joined the Wesleyan Methodists at Maeshafn, near Mold. In January 1807 he was sent by Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) as an itinerant preacher to Cardiganshire, and for the next thirty-nine years he 'travelled' on various circuits in Wales as well as in Liverpool and
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Ash in 1904, and his wife Esther Owen, a local shop assistant and a very strong-willed, resourceful individual. Davies was educated at the local Cap-coch School, Abercwmboi, and began work in the Cwmpennar coal mine (where his brothers also worked) at the tender age of twelve. He studied mining engineering at night classes, and in 1908, sponsored by the Brecon Memorial College, he entered University
DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College Born 20 November 1895 at Cae Adda, Llanwrin, Denbighshire, son of Owen Gruffydd Owen and Mary Winifred Davies of Cae Adda. His father was a brother of Richard Owen, Mynydd Ednyfed (father of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, see Lloyd George family below). He was educated at the village school, Machynlleth county school, University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated in the classics), and Christ
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic becoming more numerous provided him with opportunities to compete. His eisteddfodic successes brought him to the notice of such persons as Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones, 1741 - 1814) and William Owen Pughe, and it was with Owain Myfyr's support that he went to S. Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1791, graduating from All Souls in 1795; he proceeded M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1803. The eisteddfod had a
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Liverpool School of Art before starting work as a commercial artist in the city. He returned to live and work at Star on the death of his father. It was about this time - 1923-24 - that Ifan ab Owen Edwards asked him to provide illustrations for the monthly magazine Cymru'r Plant, and thus began more than forty years of work for Urdd Gobaith Cymru. His cartoon characters ' Toodles ' and ' Twm y gath
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar the beginning of his career, and that it was in in a theological college in England, and not in his own country, that his first academic opportunity came. He was invited back to deliver the W.M. Llewelyn Memorial Lecture in Brecon Memorial College in 1954, the Sir D. Owen Evans Memorial Lecture in Aberystwyth in 1964, and the Pantyfedwen Lecture in Swansea in 1968. He was president of the Welsh
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr was its devoted servant for the remainder of his life. He was a colleague of Sir Hugh Owen's and it was through him that the latter carried out his work for Wales, as the correspondence (in the possession of the family) clearly shows. He wrote a memoir of Sir Hugh Owen, 1885. In 1867 he was appointed to the staff of the North and South Wales Bank and worked for a time in Liverpool, Welshpool, and

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