Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, Sir HENRY WALFORD (1869 - 1941), musician St. David's. He died at Wrington, Bristol, 11 March 1941.
DAVIES, JOSEPH EDWARD (1876 - 1958), international lawyer . In 1946, he received the Medal of Merit, the highest civilian honour awarded by the U.S. government, and he received similar honours from the governments of ten other countries. He published articles in various journals between 1913 and 1947 as well as reports on industry, corporation tax and legal topics. His influential book, Mission to Moscow (1941), brought him wider fame. He married (1) Emlen
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist Noëlle Davies was born at Bushy Park, Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon on 25 December 1899, the eldest daughter of Thomas Cornwall Ffrench (died 1941), farmer, and his artistic wife Georgina (née Kennedy, died 1941); she had a younger sister, Rosamund (died 1966). Privately-tutored to the age of thirteen, the Church of Ireland congregant attended the French School, Bray, County Wicklow (1914-1918
DAVIES, RHYS JOHN (1877 - 1954), politician and trade union official contributor to the Welsh language press, especially to Y Cymro and Y Tyst. He published a selection of those articles in two short books, Seneddwr ar Dramp (1934) in which he gives his impressions of foreign countries he had visited, and Pobl a Phethau (1943) which contains interesting biographical details and reminiscences. He also published in 1941 a pacifist pamphlet, Y Cristion a Rhyfel (Pamphledi
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder noticed; ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942) married (1) Thomas Edward Ellis and (2) the Rev. Peter Hughes Griffiths; WALTER ERNEST LLEWELLYN (1874 - 1941) was a physician; and ELIZA (Lily) (1876 - 1939) married J. E. Hughes (1865 - 1932).
DAVIES, TUDOR (1892 - 1958), singer the British National Opera Co. and remained with that company for the rest of his career. He portrayed Rudolfo in London in 1922, and in 1924 he sang the leading role in the first public performance of Hugh the Drover (Vaughan Williams) in His Majesty's Theatre. He was principal tenor in Sadler's Wells, 1931-41, and with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, 1941-46; and as a resident member of the company
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist a policy of ploughing up permanent grassland and reseeding it as leys which would be much more productive. This is when Ley farming (1941) was written in conjunction with R.G. Stapledon. Another consequence of the survey was the establishment of the Grassland Improvement Station in 1940 near Stratford-upon-Avon, with R.G. Stapledon as director and William Davies as assistant director. He was
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar of the Divinity tripos in 1940 followed by an M.A. in 1942. He was ordained minister in Fowlmere Chapel, Cambridgeshire in 1941, and continued as part-time tutor in his college. He married Eurwen Llewelyn, also a miner's daughter from Glanamman, in 1941. They remained in Cambridge until 1946 when he was appointed tutor in New Testament at Yorkshire United College, Bradford, a training college for
DAVIES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1896 - 1941), specialist in analytical dairy chemistry Government in India and had the satisfaction of organising and seeing opened on St. David's Day, 1941, an active research centre, The Imperial Dairy Research Institute. He died at New Delhi on 15 May 1941, and was buried at the Nicholson cemetery, New Delhi, a Celtic cross erected by the staff of the Institute marking his grave. His wife was formerly Miss Eleanor Unwin of Cambridge.
EDWARDS, DAVID MIALL (1873 - 1941), theologian and writer -health and resigned from his Chair, continuing, however, active in many other directions until his death in 1941. His career as a teacher of theology, writer, and preacher was a notable one, and the influence of his work and personality was widely felt, especially in Wales where he carried his religious fervour into many social and cultural fields. His reputation as a theologian was established by his
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru ). He initiated the Urdd annual eisteddfod in 1929; athletic meetings in 1932; pleasure cruises in 1933; a camp for those learning the Welsh language and a football league to play for the Urdd cup in 1941; an international camp in 1948 and a Celtic camp in 1949. That year Pantyfedwen, Borth, Cardiganshire. was opened as a residential centre and thousands of young people and adults attended many kinds
EDWARDS, JOHN MENLOVE (1910 - 1958), rock climber mentioned below. Although he was a commendable psychiatrist in Liverpool, between summer 1941 and autumn 1942 he retired to Hafod Owen, above Nant Gwynant, to concentrate on the theoretical side of his work. He returned to posts in London but his ideas were not taken seriously. As a conscientious objector, an agnostic and a rejected homosexual, his loneliness led to paranoia and he retired to live near

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