Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, DAVID TEGFAN (1883 - 1968), Congregational minister was awarded the O.B.E. in acknowledgement of his humanitarian acts and for his bravery on many occasions in rescuing persons in danger of drowning. He married (1), 10 November 1908, Anna Twining, Richmond Terrace, Carmarthen (died 1933). He married (2), 1934, Sarah Jane Davies, Wauncefen, Heolddu, Ammanford. He died 10 August 1968 and was buried in Gellimanwydd cemetery.
DAVIES, DAVID THOMAS (1876 - 1962), dramatist , London. He served with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in France during World War I, and in 1919 he was appointed an inspector of schools under the Ministry of Education and moved to live in Pontypridd. He retired in 1936 and moved to Porthcawl. He moved yet again to Swansea in 1954 where he died 7 July 1962. He was buried in Glyntaf cemetery, Pontypridd. He married Jane Davies at Trealaw, 29 July 1909 and
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
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse Daughter of Dafydd Cadwaladr, born 24 May 1789 and christened 26 May at Llanycil (Bala). All our knowledge of her life comes from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Davis (two vols., 1857), compiled by Jane Williams, Ysgafell, from notes of her conversation. Left by the death of her mother (c. 1795-6) to the care of an elder sister whom she detested, Elizabeth quickly became a rebel. Though taken
DAVIES, EMLYN (1907 - 1974), Baptist minister and college professor Emlyn Davies was the youngest of six children born to Edwin and Mary Jane Davies, in Froncysylltau, Denbighshire, on 23 April 1907. He had a brother, John, and four sisters, Annie, Nellie, Sarah, and Alice. His father was a foreman in Trefynant bricks and tiles works in Ruabon. He received his early education in Froncysyllte Council School before progressing to the County School in Llangollen. In
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Born near Lampeter, went to Hoxton Academy under Thomas Ridgeley and John Eames, F.R.S. He would seem to have kept school at Haverfordwest from 1720, and on 5 June 1723 was ordained minister of Albany church there. In 1741, on the death of Vavasor Griffiths, the ' Welsh Academy ' was moved to Haverfordwest and placed in Davies's charge; but in 1743, when he took the pastorate of the churches at
DAVIES, GEORGE MAITLAND LLOYD (1880 - 1949), Calvinistic Methodist minister and apostle of peace Reconciliation. On 5 February 1916 at Finchley he married Leslie Eleanor Royde-Smith, sister of the novelist Naomi Royde-Smith; one child, Jane Hedd, was born to them. As a conscientious objector he was imprisoned more than once during the years 1917-19. In 1923 he was elected to Parliament, as a Christian Pacifist candidate, for the University of Wales; and as an unofficial envoy he carried out important work
DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician He was born on 9 June 1910, the son of Jeffrey Davies, a lay preacher with the Welsh Independents and church secretary, and Elizabeth Jane Davies his wife. He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, Swansea Technical College and Ruskin College, Oxford where he gained the Oxford Diploma in Economics and Politics. He remained especially interested in adult education throughout his life. He earned
DAVIES, JENNIE EIRIAN (1925 - 1982), journalist Jennie Howells was born on 6 February 1925, one of six children of Jane and David Howells, Waunrhelfa, Llanpumsaint, Carmarthenshire. Two of her brothers, Richard and Dewi, and a sister Mary died young of tuberculosis. Jennie was educated at Llanpumsaint Elementary School, Carmarthen County School for Girls and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth where she gained first class honours in Welsh
DAVIES, JOHN (1795 - 1861), cleric and philosopher Born December 1795 at Llanddewi-brefi, son of John and Jane Davies of Hendre Phylip - a wealthy family; pupil of Eliezer Williams at Lampeter; proceeded to Queens' College, Cambridge, 1820 (B.D. 1831, D.D. 1844). He was ordained at Norwich, becoming rector of S. Pancras, Chichester, and in 1840, of Gateshead, Durham, and master of King James's Hospital, Durham; in 1853 he became honorary canon of
DAVIES, JOHN (1882 - 1937), secretary of the South Wales District of the W.E.A., 1919-1937 Born 5 May 1882 at Bryn-bedd, Blaenpennal, Cardiganshire, son of William and Jane Davies. The family moved in 1883 to the Rhondda valley where William Davies was killed in the Maerdy Pit explosion of 1885. John Davies was brought up by his widowed mother in the Cardiganshire village of Llangeitho, one of the cradles of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism and the religious traditions of his boyhood home
DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1567 - 1644), one of the greatest of Welsh scholars Born in the parish of Llanferres, Denbighshire, the son of David ap John ap Rees, who is said to have been a weaver, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis ap David Lloyd; he had three sisters, Jane, Catherine, and Gwen. Very little is known with certainty about him before he went to Mallwyd. He is said to have spent four years at Jesus College, Oxford, and to have graduated on 16 March 1593/4

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