Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1567 - 1644), one of the greatest of Welsh scholars . In one of his letters (NLW MS 14529E) he himself mentions the time when he dwelt in the neighbourhood of Llandaff; this was possibly between 1595 and 1601, when William Morgan (1541? - 1604) was bishop there. There was a close connection between him and bishop Morgan; in the preface to his grammar, 1621, he refers to himself as an unworthy assistant to the translators of the Bible into Welsh, viz
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster His registered name was John Davies, but an aunt unaccountably and persistently referred to him as Haydn and it stuck: for the rest of his life he was known ubiquitously as John Haydn Davies. He was born in Hendrewen Road, Blaencwm, Rhondda Fawr, on 3 February 1905, the son of Daniel Davies (1881-1971) a stonemason and his wife Lucy (née Morgan) (c.1881-1961). The parents moved to the Rhondda
DAVIES, JOHN HUMPHREYS (1871 - 1926), bibliographer, man of letters, and educationist of its county council in 1917. His main hobby was the collection of Welsh books and manuscripts, and in this field he was an authority recognized in the whole of Wales. Amongst his many publications the most important are Hen Ddewiniaid Cymru, 1901; The Letters of Lewis, Richard, William, and John Morris of Anglesey, (vol. I, 1907), (vol. II, 1909); Gweithiau Morgan Llwyd, ii, 1908; A Bibliography
DAVIES, JONATHAN CEREDIG (1859 - 1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist Born 22 May 1859, at Llangunllo, Cardiganshire, son of J. C. Davies, he traced his descent from Walter Morgan, of Tangogoyan (born 1729), who is recorded as a landed proprietor in the parish of Llanddewi-brefi. At the age of 16, in 1875, Davies went to the newly-founded Welsh colony in Patagonia. He returned to Wales in 1891 [and in 1892 was editor of Yr Athrofa, in which ' Anturiaethau yn Nhir y
DAVIES, MORGAN (d. 1857), sexton of Llanelltyd, Merioneth, and minor poet
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician (Gwilym Glan Hafren, 1788 - 1838) at Welshpool. After six months there, he kept school, at Pont Robert, Llanfyllin, Syston, Leicestershire, Llanfair Caereinion, and Llanfyllin again, till 1836. The parson of Syston was Edward Morgan (1784 - 1869), who was at the time engaged on his Life of Thomas Charles, and it was Davies who copied for him the 150 letters by Charles used in that book. In 1836 he
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations Myriel Davies was born in Swansea on 5 March 1920, the daughter and second child of a Congregationalist (Independent) minister, David Morgan (1883-1959), and his wife Sarah Jane (née Jones, 1885-1953). Her brother, Herbert Myrddin Morgan (1918-1999), had been born two years previously. She spent her early years at Glyn Neath, Caerau, Maesteg and Whitland before moving, aged 12, to Bancyfelin
DAVIES, RHISIART MORGAN (1903 - 1958), scientist and professor of physics
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic there; one of his curates, Morgan Lloyd, published in 1830 a volume of sermons which was translated into English by Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845). He received the living of Llanwyddelan in 1803 and of Manafon in 1807 (both in Montgomeryshire); at Manafon he became friendly with John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770 - 1829) and the Vaughans of Penmaen Dyfi. In 1837 he was preferred to the living of
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor until he retired. Davies's first major role was in the ATV series Probation Officer as Bill Morgan, with the cast including Sir John Hurt, Honor Blackman, Glyn Houston and Judy Geeson. Throughout the 1960s and early 1970s he appeared in many smaller roles on television, in such series as Moulded in Earth, Orlando, Coronation Street, The Newcomers, Conqueror's Road, Smith, The Onedin Line, Canterbury
DAVIES-COOKE family Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
DAWKINS, MORGAN GAMAGE (1864 - 1939), Congregational minister, poet, and hymnist

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