Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician adopted daughter of Morgan Davies, a doctor with a popular practice among the London Welsh and who contributed frequently, under the pseudonym ' Teryll y Bannau ', to Welsh newspapers. Clement and Jano Davies had three sons and a daughter; they lost three of the children, each at the age of twenty-four; one son died in an accident and the daughter took her own life; only one son survived. Jano Davies
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire Eldest son of David Davies, bootmaker, Tregaron, generally known as David Davies, Camer-fach, a noted elder at the Bwlchgwynt (C.M.) chapel. His mother was Mary, daughter of David Jones, Dolau Bach, one of the most celebrated of elders at Llangeitho. He was born in the spring of 1840 at Tan-yr-odyn, Tregaron, and brought up in a house on Doldre. Educated at a school kept by Morgan Morgan, Pen-y
DAVIES, DAVID (d. 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister A native, it would seem, of Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire. He went to the Academy (then at Swansea) in 1786, but in 1787 was ordained pastor of the churches of Capel Sul (Kidwelly) and Pen-y-graig. In 1790 he moved to Holywell, and was there till 1800. There he brought out a magazine, Y Geirgrawn (nine numbers, February - October 1796), in succession to the Cylchgrawn of Morgan John Rhys. It was
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter Born in the hamlet of Treguff (Tregof) in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire, in 1812 or 1813 (his age was given as 31 when he reached Tasmania in July 1844). His father is said to have been John Davies, a tenant of the duke of Beaufort. It would seem that he was dead at the time of Dai's transportation, but Dai's mother, Mary, his brothers, William and Morgan, and his sisters Ellen Jane
DAVIES, DAVID LLOYD (Dewi Glan Peryddon; 1830 - 1881), poet, singer, etc. emigrated to the U.S.A., his novel, 'Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Dwylliedig' (with its background in Cwm Hirnant near his birthplace), was published serially in Y Drych (Utica) in 1870; he also won prizes for poems at eisteddfodau held in Kansas (1870), Hyde Park, Pa., Arvonia (1872), Utica (1875), and Youngstown (1880). He died, penniless, 23 January 1881, at Oak Hill farm, Waterville, and was buried in
DAVIES, EVAN (1842 - 1919), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and writer Dyffryn Ceiriog, and thence in 1879 to Trefriw, where he remained till his death. Though he became (1914) moderator of the North Wales C.M. Association, he is best remembered as a most diligent writer and editor. For more than thirty years he was co-editor (with John Morgan Jones, 1838 - 1921) of Y Lladmerydd. He edited the works of Tafolog (Richard Davies, 1830 - 1904), wrote the biography of Joseph
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Davies's to Griffith Jones (Welch Piety, 7 August 1741). And the diaries (NLW MS 5456A) of Thomas Morgan of Henllan (1720 - 1799), who in his student days was on very good terms with Evan Davies, show that in March 1744 Griffith Jones and Evan Davies were jointly concerting measures to check the spread of Methodism in the neighbourhood of Carmarthen.
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Trefor Morgan, they formed a new political party. During this time Gwilym met Llinos Evans, a student from Abercynon, and on 29 September 1951 they were married at Bethel Chapel, Hirwaun, with the Reverend J. Eirian Davies officiating. They had three daughters, Catrin (b. 1957), Ann (b. 1959) and Elin (b. 1963). They made their first home in Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth, where he got to know the young
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Dictionary of Biblical Biography, ed. C. L. Wallis (1970); 'Gehard von Rad' in Old Testament Theology in Contemporary Discussion, ed. Robert Laurin (1970), with J. E. Morgan-Wynne, The Last Seven Days (1999).
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister built a chapel there (lease dated 1743), which is still in use - the first Nonconformist place of worship in the Rhondda region. Davies lived at Eirw (Hafod); he met his death by drowning (O. Morgan, History of Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valleys, 286), being unseated by his frightened horse while fording the Rhondda, in July 1766; the exact date is illegible on his tombstone [but according to the
DAVIES, JAMES (d. 1760), Independent minister Williams (1709 - 1784), the minister of Watford and Cardiff. SAMUEL DAVIES (died 1781) Religion He was at Carmarthen with Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), who speaks most highly of him and attended his ordination in 1746 to a pastorate in Wiltshire. His defection to Arminianism (or Arianism) provoked unfriendly comment in the diaries of Philip David and of Edmund Jones, but it is clear that he was held in
DAVIES, JOHN (1843 - 1917) Pandy, Calvinistic Methodist minister and antiquary His father was Rees Davies (1804 - 1891), a minister, who was born at Ysgubor Fawr, Myddfai, Carmarthenshire, while Jeffery Davies of Llangammarch was his uncle. John Davies was educated at the school kept by Morgan Jones at Myddfai and at the British school, Cefnarthen. He had a year's schooling at Brecon and then went to Merthyr Tydfil grammar school, where he came under the influence of Thomas

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