Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician died 23 August 1902; (c) Thomas; and (d) William. He died at Lucca, Italy, 2 May 1865, and was buried at Biarritz.
DAVIES, DAVID JOHN (1870 - ?), artist Born at Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, 16 March 1870, son of a tanner. He obtained free tuition at Kidderminster Art School and was assisted by a public subscription at Llandilo to study at Antwerp for two years. He opened a studio at Llanelly for four years and was patronized by D. Pugh, M.P., lord Dynevor, lord Emlyn, Mansel Lewis, and Mrs. Gwynne Hughes, Tregŷb, Llandilo. His early works are
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric D. R. Davies was born 9 February, 1889, in Pontycymer, Glamorganshire, the third of the four children, two boys and two daughters, of Richard and Hannah Davies (née Bedlington Kirkhouse). His younger sister was Annie Davies who was one of the three young women singers who accompanied Evan Roberts during the 1904-05 religious revival in Wales. His father was a coal miner, but when David was aged 8
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, EDWARD (1827 - 1905), Independent minister in the U.S.A., and author . Llewelyn D. Howell, Utica (Utica, 1866), Grawnwin Aeddfed … yn cynwys Pregethau gan Amryw o Weinidogion yr Annibynwyr yn Nghymru (Utica, 1867), and Cofiant … Morris Roberts (Utica, 1879). He died 8 December 1905.
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer did not refrain from criticising and satirising organizational systems, whether religious or secular. He was one of the early promoters of Biblical criticism in Wales and Llestri'r Trysor (1914), which was edited by his friend D. Tecwyn Evans, and his preface to Y Flodeugerdd Feiblaidd (1940), caused quite a stir. But he was a Wesleyan through and through. He contributed articles on Wesleyan
DAVIES, ELLIS THOMAS (1822 - 1895), Independent minister Michael D. Jones, son of Michael Jones, minister of the ' Old Chapel,' and it was the latter who taught the two at his school at Weirglodd Wen from which Davies went to Brecon College. In 1847 he received a call to minister to the churches at Llansantsiôr and Moelfre and was ordained the following year. Before long he took charge of the church at Abergele, where he remained until he retired in 1887. For
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (Gwyndaf; 1868 - 1962), poet, tutor of poets and antiquary his fellow poets from the Gorsedd Stone on several occasions. He wrote for the local press, and occasionally contributed articles to the Tyst, Dysgedydd, and Geninen. In 1910 he published a booklet containing his awdl to Michael D. Jones. A posthumous volume of his works, Awen Gwyndaf Llanuwchllyn (1966) was edited by James Nicholas. He died 4 February 1962, the day before his 94th birthday, and was
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner a disappointment, but he had the chance to stand in the Carmarthen by-election in July 1966. Plaid Cymru seized the opportunity in a memorable campaign, and to the astonishment of all, their candidate Gwynfor Evans took the seat. Alwyn D. Rees expressed the feeling of all parties: 'The only unfortunate thing about this by-election was that Mr Gwilym Prys Davies had to lose for Gwynfor to win.' But
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1950, pp. 37-51; The Approach to the Old Testament. An Inaugural Lecture delivered on May 15, 1953, to the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham: London, The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1953; 'Select Bibliography of the Writings of Harold Henry Rowley', in Wisdom in Israel and the Ancient Near East, H. H. Rowley Festschrft, eds., M. Noth and D. W. Thomas; Supplements to Vetus
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister minister at Ystradyfodwg. She had a sister, Ann, who became the mother of D. W. Davies, a medical man at Llantrisant, and thus the grandmother of NAUNTON WINGFIELD DAVIES (1852 - 1925 - see Who's Who in Wales, 1921, and Western Mail, 14 February 1925), also a medical man (F.R.C.S.), but better known as a playwright and a promoter of the drama in South Wales - consult index to O. Llew Owain, Hanes y
DAVIES, HUMFFREY (fl. 1600?-64?), poet record from the parish register of Llanbrynmair: 'Humphredus filius D. D. Evan sepultus fuit 8vo. die Julii Anno Dom. 1687' but suggests that this may refer to the burial of some child and that the bard died before 1663; it should, however, be noted that one piece by Wmffre Dafydd may belong to the year 1664. He began to write c. 1620 (e.g. poems to Dr. John Davies, Mallwyd). The bulk of his work is of

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