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DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1739? - 1817), Independent academy tutor Born 1739 or 1740, third son of REES DAVIES of the substantial freehold of Canerw in Llanboidy parish, Carmarthenshire. Rees Davies was himself a man of some note, though precise information about him is scanty; he died c. 1788. He was a teaching elder of Henllan Amgoed church, and (with Henry Palmer and John Davies of Glandŵr) wrote a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 231) on 22 March 1740
DAVIES, CADWALADR (1704), bard, ballad-writer, and collector of the ' Piser Sioned ' poems (Bangor MS. 3212 (564)); born at Llanycil, Meironnydd, son of David Thomas and Lowry Cadwaladr. He kept a school at Dwyryd near Corwen, and at Tre'rddôl (this in 1740). The ' Piser ' was gathered together in the years 1733-45, the main corpus being country songs and plygain carols, composed by homely bards of Penllyn and Edeirnion, the district of Cerrig-y-drudion
DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer Council of Music for Wales, wrote a Foreword to the book, which was dedicated to her professor at Cardiff, David Evans, 'for all he has taught me'. Between 1959 and her retirement in 1966 she was Head of the Music Department at Trinity College, Carmarthen. She and her husband retired to Llandudno, where she was one of the founders of the Llandudno Music Club (later the Llandudno Music Society), and was
DAVIES, DANIEL (1797 - 1876), Baptist minister to Wales in 1817 and began to preach to Methodist congregations. In 1821, however, he was baptized in the river Taff by David Saunders II (1769 - 1840), of Merthyr Tydfil and the same year was established as minister of a (Welsh) Baptist congregation in London. Towards the end of 1826 he was appointed to succeed Joseph Harris (Gomer) at Swansea, and there he laboured until 1855. From 1855 to 1860
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire Eldest son of David Davies, bootmaker, Tregaron, generally known as David Davies, Camer-fach, a noted elder at the Bwlchgwynt (C.M.) chapel. His mother was Mary, daughter of David Jones, Dolau Bach, one of the most celebrated of elders at Llangeitho. He was born in the spring of 1840 at Tan-yr-odyn, Tregaron, and brought up in a house on Doldre. Educated at a school kept by Morgan Morgan, Pen-y
DAVIES, DAVID (1791 - 1864), Independent minister and Academy tutor David Jeremy of Trefynys (Peniel), and took a large farm near Abergwili (managed mainly by his wife); they had thirteen children. In 1835, on the resignation of David Peter, he became principal and theology tutor at Carmarthen, but by 1854 it was felt that he was no longer fully up to the mark, and he was persuaded to resign in 1855. He died 31 July 1864. Theologically he was a liberal Calvinist, and
DAVIES, DAVID (Dafi Dafis, Rhydcymerau; 1814 - 1891), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born 24 August 1814 at Llwydcoed, near Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire, son of David and Eleanor Davies. He received some education, and followed his father's trade as a wood-turner. At an early age he moved with his parents to Rhydcymerau. He began to preach in 1834, and was ordained in 1880. He was twice married, (a) to Margaret of Coed Iarll, Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire, and (b) to Mary Evans
DAVIES, DAVID (1763 - 1816), Independent minister monthly. In 1795 he was called to succeed Lewis Rees in the pastorate of Mynydd-bach (Swansea) and its branches. Here again he was remarkably successful; in 1803 he built Ebenezer chapel in the town of Swansea, and from 1808 onwards confined himself to Ebenezer and Sketty, relinquishing the mother-church of Mynydd-bach to another minister. He died 26 December 1816. Davies is an historical figure among
DAVIES, DAVID (bu farw 1807), editor of Y Geirgrawn, Independent minister
DAVIES, DAVID (1764? - 1828), Independent minister and Academy tutor Born near Llansawel, Carmarthenshire; his age when he entered Carmarthen in 1783 is given as 19. He left the Academy in 1785, and was ordained minister of Llan-y-bri. From 1795 to 1813 he shared the teaching at Carmarthen with David Peter, but charges of immorality brought against him, though not proven, brought his career there to an end; and though he continued in the pastorate of Llan-y-bri
DAVIES, DAVID (1741 - 1819), author of The Case of Labourers in Husbandry (London, 1795), is often identified with Dr. David Davies (1755 - 1828), headmaster of Macclesfield grammar school [on whom see Foster, Alumni Oxonienses]. The confusion has probably arisen because both were born at Machynlleth and educated at Jesus College, Oxford. David Davies [presumably the man who matriculated in 1761, aged 20, son of Richard Davies
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

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