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DAVIES, DAVID (1763 - 1816), Independent minister Born at Llangeler, Carmarthenshire, 12 June 1763, son of an inn-keeper, and educated only at the village school (much later on in life, when he was at Swansea, he got leave of absence from his church to spend four months at Hackney Academy), married when a youth - he had six children. At about 20, he (like Christmas Evans) joined the Arminian-Arian congregation of Pen-rhiw, but soon turned to the
DAVIES, DAVID (bu farw 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister pronouncedly Radical in its views (in it, e.g., was printed a Welsh version of the ' Marseillaise'), and Thomas Roberts of Llwyn-'rhudol (1765 - 1841) avers that Davies incurred considerable danger at the hands of the authorities. It may be that these views of his upset his congregation too, for letters in the library of the University College of North Wales (Scorpion MSS.) speak of 'unhappy
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician king William IV and Adelaide. He was knighted by Victoria soon after she ascended the throne. Davies married, on 8th February 1819, Letitia Maria, daughter of John Williams ('yr hen Syr,' 1745/6 - 1818); they had four children - (a) Samuel Price; (b) (Sir) Robert Henry (1824 - 1902), officer in the Indian Civil Service, mainly in the Punjab - from 1871 to 1877 he was governor of that province - he
DAVIES, DAVID (1818 - 1890) Llandinam, industrialist and Member of Parliament brothers and sisters. An invitation in the same year to make the foundation and approaches for a bridge over the Severn at Llandinam set him on a contractor's career, and in 1855 he built the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown railway, eventually opened in 1859. He subsequently built, with various partners such as Thomas Savin, the following railways: Vale of Clwyd (opened in 1858), Oswestry and
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter Philadelphia Baptist church. In the threnody (B. B. Thomas, Baledi Morgannwg, 56-8) which he wrote in Carmarthen prison, after his sentence to transportation, he speaks of living, also, at Troedrhiw'r-clawdd and Tredegar. He may have been the David Davies of Bridgend who won the harp at the Cymreigyddion eisteddfod at Abergavenny in 1838. He explained his sobriquet to the Tasmanian authorities by the
DAVIES, DAVID CHARLES (1826 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist minister, theologian, and principal of Trevecka College Born at Aberystwyth, 11 May 1826, son of Robert Davies (1790 - 1841), and Eliza, daughter of David Charles I, Carmarthen; his home was the house in Great Darkgate Street, in which the Confession of Faith of the Calvinistic Methodists had been drawn up in 1823. He was educated at an Aberystwyth school kept by John Evans (1796 - 1861) before he proceeded to Bala to be among the first group of
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 EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire Emrys Davies was born at Sandy, Llanelli on 27 June, 1904, the son of Thomas Davies, a tin-worker, and his wife Mary. He was educated at Pentip Anglican School, Sandy, Llanelli. He married Gertrude Moody in 1927, and they had a son, Peter, who won a Rugby Blue at Cambridge University and captained the Glamorgan Seconds in the 1950s. Emrys Davies was, together with Dai Davies, one of the first two
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES (1893 - 1956), economist Born 2 June 1893 at Cefnmwng, a small cottage near Carmel, Carmarthenshire, the 3rd child of Thomas Davies, miner, and Ellen (née Williams). After attending local schools, he worked in several collieries and at Barry Dock (1907-12). In the meantime he continued his education in evening classes and through correspondence courses. In 1912 he emigrated to the U.S.A. and Canada where he worked in the
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES LLEWELFRYN (1903 - 1981), academic lawyer Llewelfryn Davies was born on 27 June 1903 at Llanfihangel Rhos-y-Corn, Carmarthenshire, the eldest of three children of Samuel Davies (born 1873), farmer, and his wife Mary (née Evans). His sister Lizann Castle was born in 1905 and his brother Samuel Hywel in 1910. After education at Gwernogle School and St David's College School, Llewelfryn (the shorthand became a usual form of reference) began
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 JOSHUA (1877 - 1945), dramatist Born in Troedyrhiw, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, 26 December 1877, son of John Davies and Mary (née Evans) his wife. He was educated in Mydroilyn elementary school and the tutorial school in New Quay. He almost lost his sight there, but after recuperating he became an apprentice in an ironmonger's store in Swansea. He returned to manage the co-operative store at Llannarth. In 1910 he took a

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