Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1858 - 1943), singer royal visit to that town. He lived at Arkhill, near Bath, and died in the Clifton Nursing Home, Bristol, 28 March 1943; he was cremated at Armo Vale cemetery, Bath.
DAVIES, CLARA NOVELLO (Pencerddes Morgannwg; 1861 - 1943), musician rendered much service by raising funds for charitable purposes, especially during the two World Wars. An autobiographical work, entitled The Life I have loved, was published by Clara Novello in 1940. She died 7 February 1943 and was cremated at Golder's Green, London.
DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER (1878 - 1958), missionary and representative of the British Missionary Society (B.M.S.) in Wales spoke Lingala. In 1933, because of his ill-health, he returned to Wales as a representative of the B.M.S. He arranged summer schools in various locations before being stationed for a period in the Theological College, Aberystwyth, and afterwards at Cilgwyn, Newcastle Emlyn. His good humour, his great sense of fun and enthusiasm greatly inspired those attending the summer schools. He retired in 1943
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric Church for succour and he was eventually accepted as a candidate for ordination. Following a course of study at St. Deiniol's Library in Hawarden, Flintshire, he was ordained deacon in 1941 and priest in 1942. He was curate of St. John's, Newland, Hull from 1941 to 1943 and vicar of Emmanuel, West Dulwich from 1943 to 1947, of Holy Trinity, Brighton from 1947 to 1949, and of St. Mary Magdalen, St
DAVIES, DONALD WATTS (1924 - 2000), pioneer of digital computing, and of packet switching for data communication Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, and as an Associate of the Royal College of Science (ARCS) he graduated BSc (Physics, 1st class honours) in 1943. He then had to commence his National Service and was assigned to a group under (Sir) Rudolf E. Peierls at Birmingham, working on the atomic bomb. His supervisor was the notorious Klaus Fuchs, and his duties involved him working at Imperial
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer religious books for young people, his published works from 1943 onwards were mostly volumes of essays: selections, mainly, of his weekly articles in Yr Herald Cymraeg from 1946 to 1953 under the pseudonym ' Eisteddwr' and of his radio talks. Rhyfedd o fyd (1950) reveals his satire at its most scathing, while the powerful illustrations of a creative preacher are a prominent feature of Y Foel Faen (1951
DAVIES, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor , Cardiff. Two children were born to them: Mary Emlyn on 20 November 1943 and Robert Meurig on 7 March 1947. On the retirement of T.W. Chance as Principal of the Baptist College in Cardiff in 1944, Emlyn Davies was elected as tutor in Church history. Since his student days, Emlyn Davies had been interested in inter-church movements. This continued, and toward the end of the War he was appointed to serve
DAVIES, EVAN THOMAS (1878 - 1969), musician University College, Bangor, where he was responsible for numerous musical activities, and collaborated with (Henry) Walford Davies, Aberystwyth, to enhance knowledge of music in a wide area under the auspices of the university's Council of Music. In 1943 he retired and moved to Aberdare, where he spent the rest of his life composing, adjudicating and broadcasting. He first came into prominence as a
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales considerable controversy. Other publications include International Education in the Schools of Wales and Monmouthshire (1926), The Ordeal of Geneva (1933), Intellectual co-operation between the Wars (1943), and The Gregynog Conferences on International Education 1922-37 (1952), as well as the annual reports of the Welsh national council of the League of Nations Union, 1923-39, and of the United Nations
DAVIES, HUGH MORRISTON (1879 - 1965), outstanding pioneer of thoracic surgery in Britain finally retired to his cottage at Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, where he continued to tend his garden in spite of increasing physical disability. For over fifty years the value of his work was warmly recognised by his colleagues, and there was formal academic recognition as well. The University of Liverpool conferred upon him in 1943 the honorary Mastership in Surgery - Ch.M.; in 1954 he was awarded the Weber
DAVIES, IDRIS (1905 - 1953), miner, schoolmaster and poet Cemetery. During his lifetime four volumes of his poetry were published: Gwalia Deserta (1938), written at Rhymney; The Angry Summer: a poem of 1926 (1943), which he wrote in three months at Meesden; Tonypandy and other poems (1945), which he wrote during the short stay at Treherbert; and Selected Poems (1953), chosen by T. S. Eliot, who thought that the poems of Idris Davies had a claim to permanence as
DAVIES, JOSEPH EDWARD (1876 - 1958), international lawyer life and devoted himself to his legal career. He was appointed ambassador to the Soviet Union in 1936, to Belgium in 1938, and again to the Soviet Union in 1943. He became ambassador in Britain in 1945 and attended the Potsdam Conference. Davies was awarded nine hon. university degrees, including a LL.D. from the University of Wales, and he was a vice-president of Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion

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