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DAVIES, HUGH (1739 - 1821), cleric and author of Welsh Botanology Christened 5 April 1739, son of Lewis Davies, incumbent of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey; at 17 he went to Peter-house, Cambridge, where he graduated. He held the living of Llandegfan, Anglesey, 1778-87, and moved to that of Aber, Caernarfonshire, 1787. Davies is remembered for his Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh … (London, 1813
DAVIES, HUGH THOMAS (1881 - 1969), musician, writer, and one of the pioneers of Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant Cymru Born 5 April 1881 at Y Felin Uchaf, Glanconwy, Denbighshire, son of Richard Davies and his wife Eunice (née Williams). He married, 4 September 1909, Margaret, daughter of Griffith R. Jones, minister (B) of Ffordd Las, Glanconwy, and they had five children, all of whom became interested in Welsh traditional cultural activities. As the surveyor for Conwy, H.T. Davies lived for some time in
DAVIES, JAMES EIRIAN (1918 - 1998), poet and minister their families in Glamorganshire. The last years of his life were spent in a residential home in Ffairfach, near Llandeilo, where he died on 5 July 1998. The funeral took place on 11 July and his ashes were dispersed in the pool where his brother drowned. A plaque was placed to remember him at the chapel in Nantgaredig in 2004, and his colleague, the Reverend W. I. Cynwil Williams delivered a
DAVIES, JOHN (1772 - 1855), school teacher and missionary Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He joined the Methodists and used to worship at a private house called Penllys. When a call went out for teachers for the island of Tahiti, he volunteered for the work, was accepted, and, with his wife, set sail, 5 May 1800. Elizabeth Davis records a visit which she paid him in Tahiti. He came from the same neighbourhood as the hymnist Ann Griffiths [some of his work is included in
DAVIES, JOHN (Siôn Gymro; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister, linguist, and commentator Born at Bwlch-yr-helygen in the parish of Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 5 March 1804, but his parents - David and Mary Davies - shortly afterwards moved to a near-by farm called Castell-y-geifr. His father, whose education was above the average, was his first teacher, but when he was 7 years old he was sent to the school at Neuaddlwyd kept by Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842). He began to preach on 1 July
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies of Nerquis; 1799? - 1879), Calvinistic Methodist minister than were those of many Methodist ministers before the middle of the 19th century - he favoured the agitation in 1841 for the repeal of the Corn Laws (see Cylchgrawn Rhyddid, 1 January 1842). He died 5 March 1879.
DAVIES, JOHN (1784 - 1845), Wesleyan minister province, which covered the whole of Wales; later he was its chairman for two years, 1827-8, and when the province was split into two parts, North and South, he became chairman of the South, 1844-5. He kept a detailed account of his labours, from which it appears that he preached, on an average, 350 times a year and covered in the course of his ministry about 181,000 miles, mostly on foot. He was one of
DAVIES, JOHN (1781 - 1848) Fronheulog,, one of the most prominent lay leaders of Calvinistic Methodism in his day with America; he amassed a considerable fortune. Withal, he was a leading Calvinistic Methodist elder, and a warm supporter of Thomas Charles's activities. After Charles's death, he sided (1816-7) with Thomas Jones (1756 - 1820) and John Hughes (1796 - 1860) in their attempts to stem the then rising tide of hyper-Calvinism in the C.M. connexion. He had married (5 January 1781) Ann Jones of Cae-gwyn
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 GRIFFITH (1836 - 1861), poet and translator Second of the four children of John Davies (Siôn Gymro), Yetwen, Glandwr, Pembrokeshire (1804 - 1884), and his wife Phoebe, daughter of J. D. Griffiths and grand-daughter of John Griffiths, Glandwr (1731 - 1811). All four children died when comparatively young: Mary Ann in 1860 when she was 26, Elizabeth in 1859 at 19, David in 1848 aged 5, and John Griffith, who was lost overboard, near
DAVIES, MATTHEW (fl. 1620), politician was the eldest son of Edward Davies of Chiches Grove (or Chisgrove), Wiltshire, and of the same family as Sir John Davies (1569 - 1626), poet and lawyer (see D.N.B.). Probably a client of the earls of Pembroke, he was returned, under the 3rd earl's patronage, for Cardiff in James I's first Parliament (5 March 1604), making a strong stand for the interests of the borough against the proposal to
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

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