Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, EDWARD (Iolo Trefaldwyn; 1819 - 1887), poet and eisteddfodwr Born at Moel-y-frochas, near Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire. His parents were the first members of the Calvinistic Methodist society at Rhos-y-brithdir. He received a smattering of education at the school kept by Morris Davies (1796 - 1876) at Llanfyllin, but was forced to leave to work on the land at home. He soon left the farm, however, and obtained employment first at Llangynog quarry and then at
DAVIES, EDWARD OWEN (1864 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author the church's courts and the final passing through Parliament in 1933 of the Bill to amend the constitution of the church and to enlarge its powers. He was moderator of the North Wales Association in 1922 and 1935, and moderator of the General Assembly in 1928. He was secretary of the joint committee which prepared the Calvinistic and Wesleyan Methodist hymn-book, 1924-6. In 1925 he moved to Bangor
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD (1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet Born in Liverpool 21 February 1916, but brought up in Ro-wen, in the Conwy Valley, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at Ro-wen primary school and Llanrwst grammar school. He worked for a time in the office of Henry Jones, solicitor at Llanrwst. He began to preach in the Calvinistic Methodist connexion and followed further education at Clwyd College, the University College, Bangor, and the
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress , and their often very large charitable bequests also extended to many other musical, social, medical and educational institutions. At Gregynog, too, they welcomed many conferences on issues of the day, often in conjunction with their brother the 1st Lord Davies (David Davies). The life style of the sisters, rooted in a strong Calvinistic background, was in no way conventionally aristocratic. They
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister Edmund Jones. He kept on attending the Welsh Methodist associations till 1744, and corresponded with Harris, to our certain knowledge, till 1750 at least. Twenty letters of his to Harris survive (list, with extracts, in Y Cofiadur, 1935); they are warmly friendly and show acquaintance with all the leading Calvinistic Methodists in Wales and in London, and with English Evangelical Dissenters. Henry
DAVIES, HUGH (Pencerdd Maelor; 1844 - 1907), musician and Calvinistic Methodist minister
DAVIES, JENKIN (1798 - 1842), Calvinistic Methodist minister preacher became in practice overseer of the Methodist societies around Tŵrgwyn. In 1833 (at Cardigan) he was ordained, gave up his farm, and settled at Maelon Uchaf near Tŵrgwyn. Thus he became in effect pastor of Tŵrgwyn, though at that period the Calvinistic Methodists had no official 'pastorates.' His importance in the history of south Cardiganshire Methodism cannot be measured by this meagre record
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies of Nerquis; 1799? - 1879), Calvinistic Methodist minister
DAVIES, JOHN (1843 - 1917) Pandy, Calvinistic Methodist minister and antiquary
DAVIES, JOHN (Ossian Gwent; 1839 - 1892), poet , except that he was a Calvinistic Methodist elder and that he never married. In 1873 Hughes (Wrexham) published his Caniadau (the date of publication is not shown on the fly-leaf), and in 1898 J. E. Southall of Newport, Monmouth, issued a volume of his hitherto unpublished works under the title Blodau Gwent. In his introduction the publisher tells us a little about the poet's life, his information being

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