Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1858 - 1943), singer Born 6 January 1858 at Pontardawe, Glamorgan - the family moved later to Cwmbwrla near Swansea - son of John and Hannah Davies. He won his first prize as a singer at the age of five. He sang alto in ' Côr Caradog ' and won several prizes in eisteddfodau. In 1878 he won a scholarship which took him to the Royal Academy of Music where he gained several medals and became F.R.A.M. Appointed chief
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Siân were born. This area, on the border with England, was his home until his last few years, when he moved to Ystradowen in the Vale of Glamorgan to be closer to his family. In the Wrexham area, over the years, he enjoyed the company of cultured local Welsh speakers such as the poet Euros Bowen, and his neighbour in Ruabon, the former coal-mine manager and politician Tom Ellis. He was also one of
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist inspector. She became familiar with the characteristics of the entire nation through her work as she lived at different times in East Glamorgan, Montgomeryshire, Pembrokeshire, Meirionethshire, Rhondda and West Glamorgan. Her aim from the beginning was to establish a worthy place for the Welsh language within the education system, and to transform this system in the process. It should be remembered that
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator Caryl Davies was born in Trealaw, Glamorgan, on 26 September 1926, the eldest child of the minister William Glyn Jones (1883-1958) and his wife Mabel (née Williams Lloyd, born 1897). They married in 1925 and had a son and two further daughters. After attending Porth county school, Caryl graduated with first-class honours in French in 1946 and later with honours in philosophy from the University
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire , were proverbial. He used to send a truck of coal to his friends at Tregaron every winter, earmarking tons for distribution among the poor of the town. He contributed largely to the Welsh periodical press, particularly to Calvinistic Methodist papers and to Y Brython, 1861-3, Y Geninen, and Cymru (O.M.E.), on the topography and local history of Cardiganshire and Glamorgan, on religious life, biography
DAVIES, DAVID (1896 - 1976), cricketer and cricket umpire Glamorgan and feature prominently in the County Championship. On leaving school, he commenced working at the Llanelli Steelworks, and his industrial experience probably explains his fervent support for the General Strike of 1926. He played cricket for Llanelli and for Carmarthenshire, and his first match for Glamorgan in 1923. The county had lost the first five matches of the season, and Dai was reputedly
DAVIES, DAVID EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire Emrys Davies was born at Sandy, Llanelli on 27 June, 1904, the son of Thomas Davies, a tin-worker, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Pentip Anglican School, Sandy, Llanelli. He married Gertrude Moody in 1927, and they had a son, Peter, who won a Rugby Blue at Cambridge University and captained the Glamorgan Seconds in the 1950s. Emrys Davies was, together with Dai Davies, one of the first two
DAVIES, EVAN (Myfyr Morganwg; 1801 - 1888), bard and 'archdruid' the two solstices, and the practice continued to be a Glamorgan feature (much to the grief of some local ministers of religion) for about a quarter of a century. Myfyr Morganwg published several books dealing with Druidism. Nevertheless, he was regarded by several of his contemporaries as an authority on history and antiquities, and he was one of the persons appointed to adjudicate on the essays on
DAVIES, GWILYM ELFED (Baron Davies of Penrhys), (1913 - 1992), Labour politician Aberdare and Rhondda district of the NUM, 1958-59. Davies had joined the Labour Party in 1929. He became an executive member of the Rhondda East CLP and the Rhondda Borough Labour Party. He also joined the CWS in 1940. Davies was a member of the St John's Ambulance Brigade, 1926-46, a member of the Glamorgan County Council, 1954-61, and chairman of its Local Government Committee, 1959-61. He represented
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Gwynne Henton Davies was born in Aberdare, Glamorgan, in 1906. He was the son of John Davies and Edith Henton. His father's family had moved to the Valleys in search of work from the Vale of Glamorgan, and his mother came from a family of rural tailors in Pembrokeshire. His parents had married in 1904 and Gwynne was born in 1906, his brother, John Mansel, being born five years later. He was
DAVIES, HAYDN GEORGE (1912 - 1993), cricketer his career coincided with that of Godfrey Evans who was for many years a regular member of the England team. He first played for Glamorgan in 1935 and was awarded his county cap in 1938. In 1939 he caught seven batsmen in the Bank Holiday match against the West Indies and helped to dismiss six batsmen in one innings in the match against Leicestershire. He did not miss a championship match between
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister Neath, and kept a school there; Lewis Rees was brought up under his pastorate. But he was a tireless itinerant, of the new 'evangelical' type of Dissenter, and preached throughout the Glamorgan hill-country (and indeed within a still wider ambit), founding a church at Llanharan (c. 1734) and penetrating into the Rhondda valleys. About 1738 he left Blaen Gwrach, founded a church at Cymer (Porth), and

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