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DAVIES, JOHN (Peirianydd Gwynedd; 1783 - 1855), engineer, carpenter, smith, clock-maker, poet, and musician , ROBERT, worked in partnership with him. One of his looms (c. 1820) can be seen at the Welsh Folk Museum, St. Fagans, where it is still in regular use. He died 20 September 1855.
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster His registered name was John Davies, but an aunt unaccountably and persistently referred to him as Haydn and it stuck: for the rest of his life he was known ubiquitously as John Haydn Davies. He was born in Hendrewen Road, Blaencwm, Rhondda Fawr, on 3 February 1905, the son of Daniel Davies (1881-1971) a stonemason and his wife Lucy (née Morgan) (c.1881-1961). The parents moved to the Rhondda
DAVIES, JONATHAN CEREDIG (1859 - 1932), traveller, genealogist, and folk-lorist Born 22 May 1859, at Llangunllo, Cardiganshire, son of J. C. Davies, he traced his descent from Walter Morgan, of Tangogoyan (born 1729), who is recorded as a landed proprietor in the parish of Llanddewi-brefi. At the age of 16, in 1875, Davies went to the newly-founded Welsh colony in Patagonia. He returned to Wales in 1891 [and in 1892 was editor of Yr Athrofa, in which ' Anturiaethau yn Nhir y
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster belonged to a noted generation of Welsh school-masters who were well versed in the arts. In all, he won about 30 prizes at the national eisteddfod for short stories, novels for children, historical essays, novels, collections of folk-lore &c. His last prize was for an historical novel at the Dolgellau eisteddfod, 1949, when he was 86 years of age, frail and blind in one eye. He was second to D. Rhys
DAVIES, MARGARET (fl. c. 1700-1785?), transcriber of many of the manuscripts preserved in our public collections
DAVIES, OLIVER (fl. c. 1820), harpist
DAVIES, RACHEL (Rahel o Fôn; 1846 - 1915), lecturer and preacher (Blackwell says 'the Independents'). She preached often in various places in the state of Ohio c. 1871. She returned to Wales for a period and lived at Dwyran, Anglesey; at this time she gave some assistance to David Lloyd George in his electoral campaign. She married, in the U.S.A., Edward Davies, a native of Cardiganshire; and died 29 November 1915.
DAVIES, ROLAND (fl. c. 1730), poet
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Council in 1931. He later became an alderman of the Council and served as its Mayor in 1945-46. He remained a member of the council until 1949. In a by-election in 1934 Davies was elected the Labour MP for Merthyr Tydfil as successor to Richard C. Wallhead MP who had represented constituency as the ILP MP since the general election of 1922. Over the years Davies enjoyed substantial majorities at each
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar an age when others would be thinking of retiring, he accepted the chair in Biblical Studies in Texas Christian University in Abeline. Even though he retired in 1985 and returned to North Carolina, this led to another fruitful era in his career with a three-volume commentary on Mathew's Gospel, produced jointly with his student Dale C. Allison Jnr, in the International Critical Commentaries series
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Independents. He returned to Oxford, this time to Mansfield College, and between 1940 and 1943 immersed himself in theology under the guidance of Nathaniel Micklem, Principal of Mansfield, and the liberal theologian C. J. Cadoux, church historian and New Testament scholar. He married Rosemarie Wolff in 1943, a nurse at Oxford and member of the Lutheran Church, who had fled Hitler's Germany because of her
DAVIS, ISAAC ('Aikake') (1756 - 1810), mariner and royal advisor

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