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DAVIES, WILLIAM (Mynorydd; 1826 - 1901), sculptor and musician
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist Born 20 April 1899 in Norman Road, London, eldest son of William and Margaret Davies, both of farming families from north Cardiganshire. He was educated in Sloane School, London, and after service in the army in 1917-18 he entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and graduated with first-class honours in botany in 1923. He was appointed to the staff of the Welsh Plant Breeding
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1874 - 1949), local historian
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Gwilym Teilo; 1831 - 1892), man of letters, poet, and historian
DAVIES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr a Catholic community was gathering round Robert ap Hugh (or Pugh, of Penrhyn Creuddyn, and meeting in a cave in the Rhiwledyn cliffs during the persecution inaugurated in 1586 by the 2nd earl of Pembroke as President of Wales. It has been suggested that he brought with him a copy of the Y Drych Cristianogawl of Gruffydd Robert, which was reprinted at Rhiwledyn. He was probably the ' Syr William
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1756 - 1823), compiler of an unpublished history of Glamorgan
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1814 - 1891), palaeontologist
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1820 - 1875), Wesleyan minister ) and was general secretary of the province from 1865 to 1875. His first wife was Jane Williams, Ty Newydd, Abergele (died 26 January 1854, aged 33); William Edwards Davies was their son. His second wife was Mary Humphreys of Aberystwyth (died 1875), widow of Hugh Humphreys of Holywell. He himself died shortly after his second wife, 13 August 1875, and was buried with her at Aberystwyth.
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian Born at Plas Gwyn Schoolhouse, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, 11 October 1887, the third child and younger son of William Davies and his wife Jane (Evans), both natives of Llanafan, Cardiganshire. His father, formerly the Earl of Lisburne's gamekeeper, was then similarly employed at Broom Hall, near Pwllheli. When he was five his father entered the service of Sir Osmond Williams, Castell
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1729? - 1787), Methodist cleric Born at Stangrach, Llanfynydd, Carmarthenshire. On the title-page of the elegy written upon him, William Williams of Pantycelyn stated that he died 'in the Sixtieth Year of his Age,' but the only likely entry in the parish register concerns the christening of one ' Gulielmus filius Jonathan David,' 24 August 1729. We do not know where he was educated nor when he was ordained, but it is said that
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist eisteddfod supporter and was made an hon. white-robed member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Pwllheli in 1955. He followed the missionary campaigns of Stephen and George Jeffreys in Wales and London. He was baptised in Llanelli and while he lived in London he worshipped at Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and did social work with the Salvation Army. He married (1) Margaret, daughter of William Trefor Davies, minister of

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253 - 264 of 1867 for "William Glyn"