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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 voice, as well as a fiery temper. Her mother, Mari, was a milder character and a talented storyteller and rhymester. Cae Tudur was always a home full of humour and fun, and the family themselves created all of the entertainment, a fact which is emphasised in Cassie's autobiography, Hwb i'r Galon. She formed a quartet with her brothers and sisters, under the watchful guidance of their father, which
DAVIES, CLEMENT EDWARD (1884 - 1962), politician took up a post as law lecturer in Aberystwyth in 1908-09 before he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn. Davies joined the North Wales circuit in 1909 and transferred, within a year, to the Northern circuit. He was a successful lawyer and published, under the influence of his family background, books on agricultural law and on the law of auctions and auctioneers. At the beginning of World War I
DAVIES, DAFYDD GWILYM (1922 - 2017), minister, lecturer and Baptist College Principal Dafydd G. Davies was born on 1 July 1922 at Prysgol, Four Crosses, Pwllheli, the only child of John Clement Davies (1896-1982), a Baptist minister, and his wife Gwen Ellen (née Griffith, 1894-1970), a Welsh teacher. The family moved in 1922 when his father became minister of Graig Baptist Church in Newcastle Emlyn, and Dafydd was brought up there. He was educated at Adpar Primary School
DAVIES, Sir DANIEL THOMAS (1899 - 1966), physician serum in the treatment of pneumonia. His article on ' Gastric secretions of old age ' which he published in conjunction with Lloyd James is considered a classic. He published several medical books, including a standard work on pneumonia and books on peptic ulcers and anaemia. He was a Fellow of the Royal Medical Society. In 1938 he became physician to the royal family. He was physician to King George
DAVIES, DAVID (1741 - 1819), author was able to compile tables of the income and expenditure of representative families in different parts of the country (among these tables were those of three families in the parishes of Llandegla and Llanarmon, Denbighshire, and two families in the parishes of Llanfor and Llanycil, Meirionethshire). He was thus a pioneer in the collection of material for the construction of family budgets. The
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author Born at Penstâr, Rhyd-argaeau, Carmarthenshire, 16 June 1849. His family removed in 1858 to Treforest, Glamorganshire, where he became a pupil-teacher in a national school but was dismissed for refusing to attend Anglican services - this proved a source of life-long antagonism to the Establishment. In 1866 he went to Bristol Baptist College, and in 1872 became pastor of Mount Stuart Square church
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) crusade for world peace. In 1911, together with his sisters, the Misses Gwendoline E. and Margaret S. Davies of Gregynog Hall, he founded the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association which, under his direction, developed into a nation-wide scheme with many sanatoria and hospitals. The Llandinam family also endowed the University Chair of Tuberculosis at the Welsh National School of Medicine
DAVIES, DAVID CHRISTOPHER (1878 - 1958), missionary and representative of the British Missionary Society (B.M.S.) in Wales Born 16 July 1878 at Clydach, in the Swansea valley, Glamorganshire, second of the 10 children of John and Elizabeth Davies. He was brought up in a musical family; the father (who was employed in a local foundry) played the trombone with the Clydach brass band, and was deacon and treasurer of Calfaria (B) Church. The pastor of the church was T. Valentine Evans (father of Sir (David) Emrys Evans
DAVIES, DAVID JACOB (1916 - 1974), minister, author and broadcaster Welsh Unitarian Chapel in the town, yr Hen Dŷ Cwrdd ('the Old Meeting House'). The family lived at 2 Tudor Terrace on the Gadlys. He worked closely with Lilian Davies, a Welsh teacher at the Girls' Grammar School and member at yr Hen Dŷ Cwrdd, to establish a Welsh-medium school in Aberdare, and the school was opened at Cwmdare in 1949. He established the Carw Coch literary society in the town and at
DAVIES, DAVID JOHN (1870 - ?), artist signed 'D. J. Davies,' but later he adopted the name ' Dyer Davies' - from the connection of his mother's family with the Dyer family of Aberglasney - see under Dyer, John. A landscape and portrait painter, he also produced illustrations for Wales and caricatures which showed his advanced radical views. His best political cartoons are in David Davies, a political satire by Beriah Gwynfe Evans. He left
DAVIES, DAVID RICHARD (1889 - 1958), theologian, journalist and cleric the family moved to Clydach in the Swansea valley where his father had been appointed part-time choirmaster in a small Welsh Independent chapel. Around 1901 the colliery closed and the family moved again, to Nantyffyllon, Maesteg, where the father, who had suffered injury following a serious accident and was unable to undertake heavy work, became a lampman at the colliery. D. R. Davies was himself a

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