Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Davies's advice to young writers was that they should not publish before the age of thirty, a statement no doubt based on personal experience. He won the National Eisteddfod Crown again the following year in Bangor, and his second volume, Y Golau Caeth, ('The Captive Light') appeared in 1972. The volume opens with the title sequence, 'Y Golau Caeth' which had won the Bangor Crown. The sequence displays
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector of the ' Piser Sioned ' poems (Bangor MS. 3212 (564)); born at Llanycil, Meironnydd, son of David Thomas and Lowry Cadwaladr. He kept a school at Dwyryd near Corwen, and at Tre'rddôl (this in 1740). The ' Piser ' was gathered together in the years 1733-45, the main corpus being country songs and plygain carols, composed by homely bards of Penllyn and Edeirnion, the district of Cerrig-y-drudion
DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer to take that degree in the University of Wales (the first was the composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen). Following a period of study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the age of 24 she was appointed Director of Music Studies at the Normal College, Bangor, a post she retained until 1930; by 1932 she had become a lecturer at St Mary's College, another teacher training college in Bangor. On 9 July
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, DAFYDD GWILYM (1922 - 2017), minister, lecturer and Baptist College Principal , Newcastle Emlyn, and Cardigan County School. At the age of seventeen he felt a calling to the Baptist ministry, and he spent the years between 1941 and 1952 preparing for the ministry, at Bangor Baptist College and the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and Mansfield College in Oxford. He gained B.A. degrees in Economics and Classical Greek before graduating B.D. - a higher degree at the time - in
DAVIES, DAVID CHARLES (1826 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College -8), Windsor Street, Liverpool (1853-6), Newtown (1858-9), New Jewin, London (1859-76); then, owing to ill health, he removed to Bangor, though retaining a connection with London until 1882. He married a Miss Cooper of Llangollen in 1857. He was closely connected with the educational activities of his church and especially with the training of its ministry. Having refused the principalship of
DAVIES, DAVID STEPHEN (1841 - 1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist , penniless. It was rumoured in the U.S.A. that they had all been drowned, and a memorial service was held for D. S. Davies, and obituary notices were published. Four months later he returned from the colony to Wales and, in 1875, was invited to become minister of Ebenezer, Bangor, in succession to Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan, 1809 - 1880). He went to New York to fetch his family and there arranged for a third
DAVIES, DAVID TEGFAN (1883 - 1968), Congregational minister farm servant at Rhyd-y-rhaw, Peniel, and became a member of Peniel (Congregational) church, where he began to preach in August 1903 under the ministry of H.T. Jacob. He attended the Old College School at Carmarthen before going to Bala-Bangor College in 1905. On 13 September 1908 he was ordained minister at Seion, Pontypridd, but moved to Addoldy, Glyn-neath, where he was inducted on 1 January 1911
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS FFRANGCON (1855 - 1918), singer Born at Mount Pleasant, Bethesda, Caernarfonshire, 11 December 1855, son of Dafydd and Gwen Davies. He was educated at the national school, Bethesda, Friars School, Bangor, and Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1881. In February 1883 he was ordained deacon (in the church at Llantysilio); in 1884 he was appointed curate at Lanaelhaiarn and in 1885 at Conway. While at Conway he was given
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph soon after graduation began accumulating sinecure benefices in the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph. He probably lived at Oxford till 1537, then at Cambridge, where he took his LL.D. from S. John's in 1548. It is unlikely that he was the Thomas Davies who became archdeacon of St Asaph in 1539-40 but was deprived during the drive against married clergy in 1554, since the future bishop kept all his
DAVIES, EDWARD OWEN (1864 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author Born 8 June 1864 at Betws Gwerfyl Goch, near Corwen, and educated at the British school Corwen, where he became a pupil-teacher at the age of 12, and at the Normal College, Bangor, where he went in 1881. From 1884-5 he was assistant master at the advanced elementary school, Blaenau Ffestiniog. He proceeded to the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, taking his B.Sc. (Lond.) with honours in
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer entered Didsbury College, Manchester. He served his ministry at Abergele, Leeds, Menai Bridge, Port Dinorwic, Tregarth (thrice), Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Denbigh, Manchester (twice), Liverpool, Bangor and Coedpoeth. In 1908 he married Jane Eleanor (Nel) Evans, Gwynlys Shop, Bwlchgwyn, and they had 3 children: Dyddgu, Arfor and Gwen. He retired in 1946 because of his wife's illness and moved to Bangor

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