Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher Born at Old Parr's Cottage, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, March 1859. Whilst he was still a child the family removed to Brecon. Apprenticed for seven years to the printing and publishing business, he wrote constantly to the local press, particularly on temperance, of which he was a strong advocate. He became foreman of the printing and newspaper business in which he had been apprenticed, and
DAVIES, ELLIS THOMAS (1822 - 1895), Independent minister Born March 1822 at Tŷ Mawr, Pennantlliw Bach, Llanuwchllyn, a home celebrated in the history of the local Independent connexion. His father was an elder in the 'Old Chapel,' and Ap Vychan (Robert Thomas, 1809 - 1880) lived with him as a shepherd boy for seven years, a period which, as he acknowledged, had a lasting influence on him. E. T. Davies began to preach about 1842 at the same time as
DAVIES, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor 1934 he was awarded a B. Litt. for a thesis entitled, 'The Keltic Church in Wales prior to A.D. 664, together with its Relationship to the Western Church'. In March he was ordained minister of High St. English Baptist Church in Merthyr, and a year later, in September 1935, he married a school-teacher, Elsie Ockendon, in Perry Rise, Forest Hill, London. In the winter of 1939-40, soon after the
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Davies's to Griffith Jones (Welch Piety, 7 August 1741). And the diaries (NLW MS 5456A) of Thomas Morgan of Henllan (1720 - 1799), who in his student days was on very good terms with Evan Davies, show that in March 1744 Griffith Jones and Evan Davies were jointly concerting measures to check the spread of Methodism in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen.
DAVIES, EVAN (Eta Delta; 1794 - 1855), Independent minister March 1855.
DAVIES, FRANCIS (1605 - 1675), bishop of Llandaff , and lived and held his ecclesiastical courts at the episcopal manor of Mathern. He refounded the cathedral library, which had been destroyed during the Commonwealth, and installed the largest bell in the cathedral tower. He died 14 March 1675 and was buried before the high altar in Llandaff cathedral; his tombstone was revealed after the air-raid of 1941.
DAVIES, GETHIN (1846 - 1896), Baptist minister and college principal Bangor was effected in 1892, for he, was convinced that a Baptist college should be retained in North Wales, where so many churches largely depended on the support it could give them. He died in London, 17 March 1896. As ' Gethin Dulais ' he contributed verse to Welsh periodicals; he also wrote a number of Welsh hymns.
DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector attraction. Lloyd George and other prominent politicians were regular visitors to Graianfryn. Grace and her husband took a great interest in Welsh folk-song, and she had been one of the soloists at the inaugural meeting of the Welsh Folk-Song Society at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod in 1906. Both she and Robert were elected to the Council of the Society on its formation in March 1909, and were members
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary 1829 and 1832 he was a prominent member of the London Cymreigyddion Society, but left it in 1832 as a protest against the increase of Radicalism among its members. He believed strongly in education. He was a member of the old London Mathematical Society until its demise, and a member of the committee of the Islington Literary and Scientific Society where he lived. He died 21 March 1855, and was
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, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner in the House of Lords, Lord Cledwyn Hughes, and Lord Elystan Morgan he was part of a small but powerful team. He kept a close connection with Ireland, north and south, and knew the country's history at his fingertips. The failure of the Referendum vote on 1 March 1979 was a bitter disappointment to him, but he listened to his college friend Jennie Eirian Davies, editor of Y Faner, that a permanent
DAVIES, Sir HENRY WALFORD (1869 - 1941), musician St. David's. He died at Wrington, Bristol, 11 March 1941.

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