Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, CHARLES (1849 - 1927), Baptist minister Born at Llwynhendy, 3 November 1849, son of Daniel and Margaret Davies. He studied at the Graig Academy, Swansea, a grammar school managed by G. P. Evans, minister of York Place, Swansea, and was later admitted to the Baptist College, Llangollen. He was ordained in 1870 and accepted charge of Penuel, Bangor. In 1877 he moved to Liverpool to take charge of Everton Village Baptist church; in 1888
DAVIES, CHARLES NICE (1794 - 1842), Independent minister and college tutor
DAVIES, CHRISTY - see DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER
DAVIES, CLARA NOVELLO (Pencerddes Morgannwg; 1861 - 1943), musician Born 7 April 1861 in Canton, Cardiff, daughter of Jacob Davies and Margaret his wife, and named Clara Novello after Clara Anastasia (née Novello), whom Jacob Davies had heard singing. She received her musical education from her father, Dr. Frost, Frederick Atkins (Cardiff), and Charles Williams (organist of Llandaff Cathedral). She was appointed, when quite young, accompanist to the Cardiff
DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician Born 19 February 1884 at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, the youngest of the seven children of Moses Davies, auctioneer, and his wife Elizabeth Margaret Jones. Educated at the local elementary school, he went to Llanfyllin County School when it opened in 1897. He went on to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he obtained first class in both parts of the law tripos (1906-07) and won a number of prizes. He
DAVIES, DAFYDD GWILYM (1922 - 2017), minister, lecturer and Baptist College Principal Dafydd G. Davies was born on 1 July 1922 at Prysgol, Four Crosses, Pwllheli, the only child of John Clement Davies (1896-1982), a Baptist minister, and his wife Gwen Ellen (née Griffith, 1894-1970), a Welsh teacher. The family moved in 1922 when his father became minister of Graig Baptist Church in Newcastle Emlyn, and Dafydd was brought up there. He was educated at Adpar Primary School
DAVIES, DAI - see DAVIES, DAVID
DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools Born 24 January 1839 at Llandovery, son of Isaac Davies, a hatter (from Llandebie), and his wife Rachel Charles. From Llandovery British School he went to Borough Road Training College, and in 1858 became master of Mill Street school ('Ysgol y Comin'), Aberdare, where he broke new ground by encouraging his assistants to use Welsh in the classroom. In 1867 he took over the school of Evan Davies
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire Eldest son of David Davies, bootmaker, Tregaron, generally known as David Davies, Camer-fach, a noted elder at the Bwlchgwynt (C.M.) chapel. His mother was Mary, daughter of David Jones, Dolau Bach, one of the most celebrated of elders at Llangeitho. He was born in the spring of 1840 at Tan-yr-odyn, Tregaron, and brought up in a house on Doldre. Educated at a school kept by Morgan Morgan, Pen-y
DAVIES, DANIEL (1797 - 1876), Baptist minister
DAVIES, DANIEL (1756 - 1837), Baptist minister
DAVIES, DANIEL JOHN (1885 - 1970), Independent minister and poet Born 2 September 1885, at Waunfelen, a cottage in Pentregalar, Crymych, Pembrokeshire, a son of John Morris and Ann Davies. When his father was killed in a rail accident at Boncath station, his mother and her three sons moved to a house named Tŷ-canol, but the mother and the two brothers died soon after and the orphaned boy went to live with his mother's sister at Aberdyfnant, Llanfyrnach. There

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