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DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College Born 20 November 1895 at Cae Adda, Llanwrin, Denbighshire, son of Owen Gruffydd Owen and Mary Winifred Davies of Cae Adda. His father was a brother of Richard Owen, Mynydd Ednyfed (father of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, see Lloyd George family below). He was educated at the village school, Machynlleth county school, University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated in the classics), and Christ
DAVIES, WILFRED MITFORD (1895 - 1966), artist Born February 23, 1895 at Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the second son of Robert and Elizabeth Davies. The family soon moved to Star, between Llanfairpwll and Gaerwen, and he was brought up there. His early education was at Llanfairpwll elementary school, and the County School, Llangefni. His plans to become an architect were scotched by World War I. After leaving the army, he spent four years at the
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (1863 - 1935), journalist and editor Born 7 October 1863, at Talley, Carmarthenshire, the son of Herbert Davies. After the family had moved to Llanelly, William was apprenticed at the office of the Guardian newspaper, he later became a reporter at Cardiff, editor of the Evening Express, assistant editor of the Western Mail, and, on the retirement of H. Lascelles Carr in 1901, editor in chief. Journalism claimed his undivided
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1805 - 1859), Independent minister and schoolmaster removed from Ffrwd-y-fâl to Troed-y-rhiw (Allt-Walis), again combining a family tutorship with a private school; but in 1856 he was appointed Hebrew and mathematical tutor at Carmarthen Academy. He died at Carmarthen, 11 December 1859; he was buried in the graveyard of Elim Independent chapel, Ffynnon-ddrain. His not immodest judgement upon himself was that 'his only eminence consisted in his tact as a
DAVIES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr Born of good family at Croes-yn-Eirias, Colwyn, Denbighshire, he entered the Roman Catholic seminary at Reims (transferred thither from Douai four years earlier) in 1582 along with three other Welsh students, and received ordination as priest at the hands of cardinal Guise in 1585. Two months later he was sent on the English mission, and he seems to have made at once for his native region, where
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian Deudraeth, and the family moved to Minffordd, Penrhyndeudraeth. He was educated at Porthmadog County School 1900-03 and at Penrhyndeudraeth pupil-teacher centre, where he was a pupil-teacher, 1903-06 before entering the University College of Wales, graduating B.A. (1909) with honours in Welsh and M.A. (1912) by virtue of a dissertation on 'Phylipiaid Ardudwy', a group of sixteenth and seventeenth century
DAVIES, WILLIAM EDWARDS (1851 - 1927), Cymmrodor and eisteddfodwr was its devoted servant for the remainder of his life. He was a colleague of Sir Hugh Owen's and it was through him that the latter carried out his work for Wales, as the correspondence (in the possession of the family) clearly shows. He wrote a memoir of Sir Hugh Owen, 1885. In 1867 he was appointed to the staff of the North and South Wales Bank and worked for a time in Liverpool, Welshpool, and
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Pennar Davies was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 12 November 1911, only son of Joseph and Annie (née Moss) Davies. He had three sisters. His father was a miner from the Rhondda Valley and his mother from the Anglicized part of Pembrokeshire, English was the language of the home. The family were poor, partly due to Joseph's mining injuries as well as to the depressed state of the industrial
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor Windsor Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town in the East End of London, the son of Anyan Davies and his wife Maggie (née Jones). He had one sister, Glenys. Both his parents were Welsh speakers. In 1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the family moved back to Anyan Davies's home village of Nant-y-Moel in Ogmore Vale. Windsor attended Ogmore Grammar School, and
teulu DAVIES-COOKE Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, The family of Davies of Gwysaney is descended in direct line from Cynric Efell (fl. 1200), the elder of the twin sons of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys, who, on the death of his father, succeeded to the lordship of Eglwys Egle, a division of the lordship of Bromfield, a part of Ruabon, and of Ystrad Alun Uwch Gwysaney (later known as Moldsdale). Cynric married Golle, daughter and heiress of
teulu DAVIS, coalowners did well, built larger premises, reared five sons and five daughters, and were the mainstays of the young Welsh Wesleyan cause at Hirwaun. As the family grew up, Davis was able to leave the shop to the care of his wife and children, and to tap another source of income by opening a small coal level on Cefn Rhigos; this colliery (with its wharf at Briton Ferry) was sold in 1847, but long before that
DAVIS, ELIZABETH (1789 - 1860), nurse and traveller . Having promised to stay with the Lloyd family for another year, she decided that she 'must see more of the world', and made off again, this time to Liverpool. There, she spent several years working as a domestic servant in more than one household. With the family of one of her employers in Liverpool she appears to have travelled widely in Europe around 1815-16. She also appears to have become a keen

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