Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector attraction. Lloyd George and other prominent politicians were regular visitors to Graianfryn. Grace and her husband took a great interest in Welsh folk-song, and she had been one of the soloists at the inaugural meeting of the Welsh Folk-Song Society at the Caernarfon National Eisteddfod in 1906. Both she and Robert were elected to the Council of the Society on its formation in March 1909, and were members
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Cardiff Magistrates' Court entirely through the medium of Welsh. He was appointed Chairman of the Welsh Hospital Board in 1968 and did great work for the health service, fighting for recognition of the Welsh language and often clashing with the Secretary of State for Wales, George Thomas. The Board was dissolved in 1974 and in the same year he was invited to serve as special adviser to John Morris and
DAVIES, HAYDN GEORGE (1912 - 1993), cricketer
DAVIES, Sir HENRY WALFORD (1869 - 1941), musician Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. In 1919 he accepted the dual posts of Director of Music to the University of Wales, and Professor of Music at Aberystwyth university college, the latter post he relinquished in 1926. He was knighted in 1922, and on the death of Edward Elgar in 1934, King George V appointed him Master of the King's Musick. He was made a C.V.O. in 1932 and K.C.V.O. in 1937. His
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies of Nerquis; 1799? - 1879), Calvinistic Methodist minister renowned in his day for his wit and originality. There is a 'biography' of him, by George Jones (Wrexham, 1907), very deficient in dates and other particulars. It would seem that he was brought up at Mold, though his family hailed from Nerquis, Flintshire; he was received into Mold Methodist society in 1815 'when 16 years of age' (G. Owen, Methodistiaeth Sir Fflint, 323), and according to his
DAVIES, JOHN GLYN (1870 - 1953), scholar, songwriter and poet Born 22 October 1870 at 55 Peel St., Sefton Park, Liverpool, son of John and Gwen Davies. His father was a tea merchant, and his mother was a daughter of John Jones, Tal-y-sarn; George Maitland Lloyd Davies, Stanley Davies and Captain Frank Davies were his brothers. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute. He worked with the sailing boat companies Rathbone Brothers (1887-92) and The Cambrian
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer Son of George and Elizabeth Davies, of Tre'r Abbot, in the parish of Whitford, Flintshire. He was educated at the English Jesuit College in Rome, where he was ordained priest 17 April 1688. On 15 October of the same year he left college and returned home to work with the Jesuit missioners in Wales and the border counties. But before long he was converted to Protestantism, and wrote an 'apologia
DAVIES, RACHEL (Rahel o Fôn; 1846 - 1915), lecturer and preacher (Blackwell says 'the Independents'). She preached often in various places in the state of Ohio c. 1871. She returned to Wales for a period and lived at Dwyran, Anglesey; at this time she gave some assistance to David Lloyd George in his electoral campaign. She married, in the U.S.A., Edward Davies, a native of Cardiganshire; and died 29 November 1915.
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian warmly supported by him. It was he who won the prize at Caerwys in 1798 for an awdl on 'Cariad i'n Gwlad,' and in the provincial eisteddfod of Dyfed held at Carmarthen in 1819 he was co-adjudicator with Iolo Morganwg. His successes included the prize at Wrexham in 1820 for an awdl on the death of George III, and several prizes at Beaumaris in 1832. But his eisteddfod activities brought him also a good
DAVIES, ROBERT HUMPHREY (Gomerian; 1856 - 1947), correspondent of Welsh and English newspapers ; for fourteen years he was secretary of the St. David's Day Society and he was twice elected its president. He arranged several eisteddfodau and visited Wales to invite David Lloyd-George to attend the international eisteddfod to be held in the U.S.A. At the suggestion of Lloyd George he formed the American Gorsedd of Bards of which he became the recorder; he served, e.g. as recorder, of the Gorsedd
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman movements throughout Wales. She played a major role in the preparation of the impressive peace memorial from the women of Wales to the women of the United States. Davies was a warm admirer of the work of George M. Ll. Davies. In the momentous general election of 30 May 1929, Rose Davies stood as the first ever Labour candidate for the Honiton division of Devon, singularly unpromising territory for the
DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College Born 20 November 1895 at Cae Adda, Llanwrin, Denbighshire, son of Owen Gruffydd Owen and Mary Winifred Davies of Cae Adda. His father was a brother of Richard Owen, Mynydd Ednyfed (father of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, see Lloyd George family below). He was educated at the village school, Machynlleth county school, University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated in the classics), and Christ

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