Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID JOSHUA (1877 - 1945), dramatist Born in Troedyrhiw, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, 26 December 1877, son of John Davies and Mary (née Evans) his wife. He was educated in Mydroilyn elementary school and the tutorial school in New Quay. He almost lost his sight there, but after recuperating he became an apprentice in an ironmonger's store in Swansea. He returned to manage the co-operative store at Llannarth. In 1910 he took a
DAVIES, DAVID LLOYD (Dewi Glan Peryddon; 1830 - 1881), poet, singer, etc. Born 3rd of March 1830 at Llwyn Einion, near Bala, brother to John Davies (Einion Ddu), he became prominent as an eisteddfodic entertainer and baritone singer both in Wales and in the U.S.A. A product of ' Cymdeithas Lenyddol Meirion,' he won several prizes at local and other eisteddfodau in Wales (and afterwards in America), including the national eisteddfod of 1865; he won the chair at Bethesda
DAVIES, DAVID STEPHEN (1841 - 1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist Born at Brynffynnon, Plas-marl, Swansea, 14 February 1841, son of John Davies (1803 - 1854), minister of Mynydd-bach, Llangyfelach. In 1854 his father was killed in the mine, and the boy was forced to leave school and go to work as an engine-driver at Aberdare. In 1857 there was a strike, and he emigrated to the U.S.A., where he began to preach at Holidaysburg. He then underwent training at the
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS (1876 - 1962), dramatist they had one daughter. D.T. Davies gained prominence as one of the Welsh social dramatists of the first half of the 20th c. He came into contact with John Oswald Francis while he was a student at Aberystwyth, and he had an opportunity to get to know contemporary English plays when he was a teacher in London. Ibsen's plays were popular in the London theatres and they provided a pattern for D.T. Davies
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer from his vicar. He studied under William Shakespeare who was an authority on voice production. In 1889 he married Annie Francis Rayner and the two visited Clara Novello Davies in Cardiff. There he was given an audition by John Davies, Clara Novello's husband, who secured contracts for him to sing in a series of concerts. He started his career as a professional singer in Cardiff. In 1888 he joined the
DAVIES, DONALD WATTS (1924 - 2000), pioneer of digital computing, and of packet switching for data communication Donald Davies was born 7 June 1924 (with his twin sister Marion Ivey) at Treorchy, Rhondda Valley, Glamorganshire, son of John Davies (a clerk at a coal mine who died in July 1925), and Hilda (née Stebbens, from Portsmouth). The widowed mother returned to Portsmouth with the young twins. Donald went to Portsmouth Boys' Southern Secondary School; the school evacuated to Brockenhurst in 1939. At
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Edinburgh, and to visit several Continental countries in 1815-16. Returning to Bala, she again ran away, to Chester, and thence (to escape marriage) to London, where she stayed for a while under the roof of John Jones of Glan-y-gors (1766 - 1821), with whom she claimed 'distant kinship.' As domestic servant in the house of a fashionable tailor, she was able to combine zealous attendance at her chapel with
DAVIES, ELLIS WILLIAM (1871 - 1939), solicitor and politician Caernarfonshire, in succession to John Bryn Roberts, and retained his seat until 1918. During this period he was a member of the departmental committee on landed estates (1911), departmental committee on the jury system (1911), Lloyd George's land enquiry committee (1912), the Speaker's conference on reforming the electoral system (1916), the departmental committee concerned with the right of public authorities
DAVIES, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor Emlyn Davies was the youngest of six children born to Edwin and Mary Jane Davies, in Froncysylltau, Denbighshire, on 23 April 1907. He had a brother, John, and four sisters, Annie, Nellie, Sarah, and Alice. His father was a foreman in Trefynant bricks and tiles works in Ruabon. He received his early education in Froncysyllte Council School before progressing to the County School in Llangollen. In
DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 - 1888), bard and 'archdruid' temperance with John Jones of Llangollen (1801 - 1856), in a public meeting held at Llantrisant, Glamorganshire. About 1844-5 he settled in Pontypridd as a watchmaker, making that town his home henceforward. It was there also that he assumed the pseudonym of Myfyr Morganwg. He came deeply under the influence of the Druidic 'fever' that affected some persons at that time, and read many books on the
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Born near Lampeter, went to Hoxton Academy under Thomas Ridgeley and John Eames, F.R.S. He would seem to have kept school at Haverfordwest from 1720, and on 5 June 1723 was ordained minister of Albany church there. In 1741, on the death of Vavasor Griffiths, the ' Welsh Academy ' was moved to Haverfordwest and placed in Davies's charge; but in 1743, when he took the pastorate of the churches at
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer Dyffryn Ceiriog, and thence in 1879 to Trefriw, where he remained till his death. Though he became (1914) moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association, he is best remembered as a most diligent writer and editor. For more than thirty years he was co-editor (with John Morgan Jones, 1838 - 1921) of Y Lladmerydd. He edited the works of Tafolog (Richard Davies, 1830 - 1904), wrote the biography of Joseph

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