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DAVIES, DAVID (1791 - 1864), Independent minister and Academy tutor Born at Cilfforch (Aberayron) in February 1791. He was a member of Neuadd-lwyd church and was educated first at Castell Hywel and then at Carmarthen (1807-11). He was ordained in 1813 as assistant at Pendref, Caernarvon, to John Griffiths (1752 - 1818), but in 1814 accepted a call to Pant Teg and Peniel churches near Carmarthen, where he remained until his death. He married Anne, daughter of
DAVIES, DAVID (bu farw 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister A native, it would seem, of Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire. He went to the Academy (then at Swansea) in 1786, but in 1787 was ordained pastor of the churches of Capel Sul (Kidwelly) and Pen-y-graig. In 1790 he moved to Holywell, and was there till 1800. There he brought out a magazine, Y Geirgrawn (nine numbers, February - October 1796), in succession to the Cylchgrawn of Morgan John Rhys. It was
DAVIES, DAVID (1753 - 1820), Methodist cleric Born 1753, son of John and Catherine Davies of Pen-y-bont, Newcastle Emlyn. His parents were the leading supporters of the Methodist connexion in that town, and the society used, at one time, to meet at their house. There was a David Davies, curate of Llanddarog and Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, 1769-1785, who was a strong Methodist but, if the age recorded on his tombstone is correct, the
DAVIES, Sir DAVID (1792 - 1865), physician Son of Robert Davies, Gorwydd, Llanddewi-brefi, Cardiganshire, and his wife Eleanor, daughter of John Price, Rhosybedw, Llanwrda. David Davies was christened at Llanddewi-brefi church, 5 September 1792. Adopting the medical profession he went while still young to London; he served at Hampton, Middlesex, as assistant to one of the physicians to queen Adelaide; later he himself became physician to
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) Born 11 May 1880, only son of Edward Davies and Mary, daughter of Evan Jones, a Calvinistic Methodist minister who was closely related to John Jones of Talysarn (1796 - 1857. He was the grandson of David Davies (1818 - 1890, the Welsh industrialist of the Victorian period, whose energy and enterprise he inherited. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, he entered the House of Commons at 26 years
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author campaign for disestablishment, but his personal relations with bishop John Owen (1854 - 1926) became most friendly. At 62, he became a frequent competitor at the national eisteddfod, and won several essay prizes (one of the essays submitted by him was The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature, published in 1926). An effect of this competing was to make him a caustic critic of
DAVIES, DAVID (Dai'r Cantwr; 1812? - 1874), Rebecca rioter Born in the hamlet of Treguff (Tregof) in the parish of Llancarfan, Glamorganshire, in 1812 or 1813 (his age was given as 31 when he reached Tasmania in July 1844). His father is said to have been John Davies, a tenant of the duke of Beaufort. It would seem that he was dead at the time of Dai's transportation, but Dai's mother, Mary, his brothers, William and Morgan, and his sisters Ellen Jane
DAVIES, DAVID (1896 - 1976), cricketer and cricket umpire at Bournemouth in 1948 when Glamorgan won the county championship for the first time, and gave the memorable verdict at the fall of Hampshire's final wicket: 'That's out and we've won the Championship.' He suffered from arthritis in his later years but collaborated with his son-in-law John Edwards in the publication of his memoirs in 1975. Dai Davies died at Llanelli on 16 July, 1976.
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 JACOB (1916 - 1974), minister, author and broadcaster Jacob Davies was born on 5 September 1916 at Pen-lôn in Tre-groes near Llandysul, Ceredigion, one of five children of David Davies, a stonemason, and his wife Mary (née Lewis). He had one brother, John Herbert (Jac) and three sisters, Annie, Hannah and Maria (May). He was educated at Tre-groes Primary School and Llandysul Grammar School (1929-36), choosing to specialise in the sciences for his
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

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