Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer lessons on the organ by Dr. Roland Rogers. He was advised to apply for the post of minor canon at Bangor cathedral but, to his great disappointment, was unsuccessful. This decided him to concentrate on a musical career and to endeavour to realize his dream of becoming a singer. He now applied for a curacy at S. Mary's, Hoxton, London, was duly appointed, and there received sympathy and encouragement
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph superstycyons.' By 1570 he was satisfied that he had reduced the diocese to 'better order,' but asked Cecil (without effect) for an ecclesiastical commission to complete the work. Some of his own sinecures he had now resigned, but on representations from archbishop Parker he was allowed to keep those of Llanbedr, Caerhun, and his 'portion' of Llandinam, in consideration of the poverty of the see, a poverty he
DAVIES, EDWARD (Iolo Trefaldwyn; 1819 - 1887), poet and eisteddfodwr the Rhyd-y-mwyn lead works. Then, for a time, he was a coal merchant in Liverpool, but this venture failed. He now settled in Wrexham, where he became traveller for a firm of Scottish publishers. He was a faithful frequenter of eisteddfodau and a regular competitor - too regular, indeed, to produce any work of real merit. In 1870 he won the chair at the Liverpool Gordofigion eisteddfod for his
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary medal in 1820 for carving a sundial skilfully from a piece of slate. He was invited to become the first president of the Institute of Actuaries but declined. He was described as 'The father of the present race of actuaries'. He had now attained to a position of influence and power, and was able to recommend some of his countrymen for responsible posts, e.g. Hugh Owen (1804 - 1881) to become secretary
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales collapse of the League of Nations. During World War II the Welsh Education Committee under his direction was asked to draft a model constitution for an international education organisation. The draft submitted by Gwilym Davies greatly influenced the creation of UNESCO. He is probably remembered best for initiating in 1922 the peace message of the youth of Wales to the youth of the world which is now
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister '; he married a farmer's daughter. Their eldest son, HENRY DAVIES, had a wide country practice; his brother-in-law is said to have 'owned most of the land on which Porth now stands.' Henry and his wife had four children. The eldest, EVAN DAVIES (1801 - 1850), was a ' character.' He was medical officer of the colliery opened by Walter Coffin at Dinas Rhondda, and like Coffin was a Unitarian; there are
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister -y-glo chose a well-to-do local farmer, Richard Rees of Gwernllwyn Uchaf, as Davies's co-pastor (he died 1749). Relations between the two men and their followers became increasingly difficult, and the 'left wing' seceded in 1747 to form the congregation (now Unitarian) of Cefn-coed-cymer. Owing to the expiry of the lease, Davies and his people left their historic meeting-house at Cwm-y-glo and
DAVIES, JAMES (1767? - 1860), Baptist minister therefore natural that he should in 1820 have left the General Baptists (now becoming increasingly anti-Trinitarian) and returned to the Particular Baptists; yet there are hints that his theological views were still unchanged - it was rather that his personal popularity and his eminence as a preacher effaced the memory of controversies, now twenty years past, which had lost much of their meaning
DAVIES, JOHN (1652 - post 1716) Rhiwlas,, genealogist . According to Archæologia Cambrensis, 1888, 51, Davies was born 10 October 1652. His marriage has now been ascertained, by Mr. David Watkins in his unpublished dissertation 'Welsh Historiography in the 17th Cent.' (1955). The bishop's transcripts of Llansilin parish record, 27 May 1685, the christening of 'Margaret daughter of John Davies and Margaret his wife, of Rhiwlas ' (the child was born 24 May 1685
DAVIES, JOHN (d. 1694) Nannau,, 'family bard' Said to have been born at Pandy, Llanuwchllyn, and to have lived for a while at Tyn-y-ffridd. Mr. Evan Roberts, of Llandderfel, suggests (Y Seren, Bala, 29 November 1950) that he was the composer of the air formerly known as ' Dafydd y Garreg Las ' and now known as ' Pant corlan yr ŵyn '; if so, then he may have been a harpist also. John Davies is of some importance as one of the last members of
DAVIES, JOHN (Gwyneddon; 1832 - 1904), printer and journalist author of a popular harvest thanksgiving hymn which begins ' Anfeidrol Dduw rhagluniaeth.' He died at Caernarvon 30 January 1904. ROBERT GWYNEDDON DAVIES (1870 - 1928), solicitor Law Literature and Writing His son, a solicitor, who died 17 April 1928, aged 58, was the author of an English translation of Y Bardd Cwsc (1st ed. 1897, 2nd ed. 1909). Many of the manuscripts which he collected are now in the
DAVIES, JOHN (1781 - 1848) Fronheulog,, one of the most prominent lay leaders of Calvinistic Methodism in his day recalcitrants. Davies died 12 June 1848. A letter by Wordsworth praises him (along with Thomas Charles and John Elias) for his loyalty to Church and State, and also for his landscape-improvements. The papers of the Fronheulog estate are now in N.L.W.

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