Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer , Tylorstown, where he was ordained on 18 and 19 July 1951, and where he remained until 1959. Afterwards, he served as minister in Allt-wen (1959-63), and in Harrow (1965–66). He served as a school teacher in Windsor from 1963 to 1965. On 18 January 1955, he married Miss. Pegi Rees, the daughter of the late Rev. Harding Rees and his wife. They had one son, Dafydd. Following the sudden death of Principal
CHARLES, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister Little is known about him; he was a nephew of Philip David, and therefore presumably a Monmouthshire man. The name appears on the list of Carmarthen Academy students in 1745. In 1749 he succeeded Richard Rees as pastor of the newly incorporated congregation at Cefn-coed-cymer, an offshoot of Cwm-y-glo. He was an Arminian, and probably later on an Arian. D. 19 May 1790. His uncle's diaries have
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric He was born 14 October 1755, probably at Longmoor, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees Charles, farmer, and his wife Jael, daughter of David Bowen of Pibwr Lwyd, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1763; David Charles I was his brother. From Llanddowror village school he went (1769) to Carmarthen Academy under Jenkin Jenkins, and thence (1775) to Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1779); his
CLARE family and his neighbour Humphrey Bohun VII (c. 1250-98), lord of Brecknock (on the Bohuns, see D.N.B. and William Rees, ' The Mediaeval Lordship of Brecon ' in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1915-16), because Gilbert had built a castle on their common boundary - on Brecknock land, so Bohun maintained; the castle was Morlais near Merthyr Tydfil (confused by some with Morgraig
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician demand not only at concerts and eisteddfodau but also at the Gregynog Festival in the 1930s. He accompanied many of Wales's best known singers. In 1926 he accompanied Dora Herbert Jones and Owen Bryngwyn on some of the earliest electrical recordings made by HMV, and later played for artists such as the bass Richard Rees. He accompanied a performance of Brahms' Requiem at the National Eisteddfod in
DANIEL, JOHN (1755? - 1823), printer time; Ifano Jones (History of Printing and Printers in Wales) regards him as the best printer before the era of William Rees, Llandovery, and William Spurrell, Carmarthen. During the years 1791, 1793, and 1794, John Daniel and John Ross co-operated in the production of some books; they were not partners, however. When John Ross was producing, in 1796, the third edition of the ' Peter Williams Bible
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools , followed by a first class in divinity in 1925. In the same year, a ' fellowship ' was created for him at Bala-Bangor College and on the death of Dr. Thomas Rees, he was appointed a full professor on 28 July, 1926, to be responsible for the courses on Christian doctrine and the philosophy of religion. In 1931 he was freed from his work to study with Rudolph Bultmann in Marburg. He remained at Bala-Bangor
DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister Cwmllynfell. He is pretty certainly the John David who joined Henry Palmer and Rees Davies, in a letter (Trevecka letter 231) to Howel Harris, 22 March 1740. He died 22 July 1756, and was buried at Manordivy. There is an elegy (printed in the work mentioned below) upon him by Morris Griffiths. A record in the Moravian archives at Haverfordwest speaks in very high terms of John David.
DAVID, REES (fl. 1746), early Arminian Baptist of whom very little is known. According to Walter J. Evans (NLW MSS 10327B), he was at Carmarthen under Perrott; but the only similar name in Wilson's list of Perrott's students (Dr. Williams's library, copy in NLW MS 373C) is the 'Rees Davies ' who is there identified with Rees Davies of Canerw; neither identification is wholly convincing. Rees David, however, was not a minister but a
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, DAVID (1763 - 1816), Independent minister monthly. In 1795 he was called to succeed Lewis Rees in the pastorate of Mynydd-bach (Swansea) and its branches. Here again he was remarkably successful; in 1803 he built Ebenezer chapel in the town of Swansea, and from 1808 onwards confined himself to Ebenezer and Sketty, relinquishing the mother-church of Mynydd-bach to another minister. He died 26 December 1816. Davies is an historical figure among
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian

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