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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 (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 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
DAVIES, DAVID STEPHEN (1841 - 1898), preacher, temperance reformer, man of letters, and colonist , penniless. It was rumoured in the U.S.A. that they had all been drowned, and a memorial service was held for D. S. Davies, and obituary notices were published. Four months later he returned from the colony to Wales and, in 1875, was invited to become minister of Ebenezer, Bangor, in succession to Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan, 1809 - 1880). He went to New York to fetch his family and there arranged for a third
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph , fled overseas on Elizabeth's accession, leaving Davies still 'custos' of the diocese, in which capacity he filled several vacant livings (all in 1558), till the consecration of bishop Rowland Meyrick (see Meyrick family) in December 1559. In 1561 the translation of bishop Richard Davies (1501? - 1581) to S. Davids left the see of St Asaph vacant, and Thomas Davies was elected, and was hailed by
DAVIES, EDWARD TEGLA (1880 - 1967), minister (Meth.) and writer Born 31 May 1880 at Hen Giât, Llandegla, Denbighshire, fourth of the six children of William and Mary Ann Davies. His father was a quarryman, who was badly injured in Moel Faen quarry but continued to work there and subsequently in Mwynglawdd chalk quarry, to ward off destitution. In 1893 the family moved to Pentre'r Bais (Gwynfryn) and in 1896 to Bwlch-gwyn. When he was 14 years old Edward
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher Born at Old Parr's Cottage, near Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, March 1859. Whilst he was still a child the family removed to Brecon. Apprenticed for seven years to the printing and publishing business, he wrote constantly to the local press, particularly on temperance, of which he was a strong advocate. He became foreman of the printing and newspaper business in which he had been apprenticed, and
DAVIES, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), Crimean nurse devotion to the theatre. In 1820, after a visit to Bala (which she found 'dull') she became maid in a sea-captain's family, and for years rounded the globe, meeting all sorts of people (including William Carey and bishop Heber), acting Shakespeare on ship-board, undergoing remarkable adventures (on her own perhaps rather boastful testimony), but sedulously refusing the adventure of matrimony - one gets
DAVIES, ELLIS (1872 - 1962), priest and antiquarian Born 22 September 1872, son of Ellis Davies, a gardener at Nannerch, Flintshire, but the family soon moved to Llaniestyn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at ysgol ramadeg Botwnnog, and in 1892 he gained an entrance exhibition to St. David's College, Lampeter, where he won prizes each year. After graduating in 1895 he was ordained and served as curate in Llansilin, and then in Old Colwyn and St

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