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DAVIES, JOHN (Ossian Gwent; 1839 - 1892), poet Born 30 January 1839 at Cardigan, son of Evan and Anne Davies. It is said that Evan Davies, the father, had considerable skill as a poet, though he produced very little. He was a Methodist elder. The family moved to Rhymney when John was still young, and his schooling was very inadequate. He served his apprenticeship as a carpenter in one of the Rhymney factories, and, in addition, became a
DAVIES, JOHN (1882 - 1937), secretary of the South Wales District of the W.E.A., 1919-1937 Born 5 May 1882 at Bryn-bedd, Blaenpennal, Cardiganshire, son of William and Jane Davies. The family moved in 1883 to the Rhondda valley where William Davies was killed in the Maerdy Pit explosion of 1885. John Davies was brought up by his widowed mother in the Cardiganshire village of Llangeitho, one of the cradles of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism and the religious traditions of his boyhood home
DAVIES, JOHN (bu farw 1694) Nannau,, 'family bard'
DAVIES, JOHN (1803 - 1854), Independent minister Mynydd-bach, then in a deplorable state in consequence of the troubles caused by his predecessor Isaac Harding Harries : Davies in time brought it into good order. His stipend was small, and he had a large family, so he undertook the management of a colliery, in which he died from the effects of choke-damp 6 September 1854. He was a diligent writer; among his works may be mentioned Arch y Cyfamod, 1840
DAVIES, JOHN (1938 - 2015), historian John Davies was born on 25 April 1938 in Llwynypia Hospital, Glamorganshire, the son of Daniel Davies (d. 1950), carpenter, and his wife Mary (née Potter), a teacher, of Dumfries Street, Treorchy. His grandfather William Davies died in the Maerdy Pit Explosion of 1885 and his family relationship to the Rhondda Valleys and its coal industry was absolutely essential to his view of Wales and the
DAVIES, JOHN BREESE (1893 - 1940), writer, musician, and a specialist in cerdd dant Born 22 February 1893 at Gwynfryn, Dinas Mawddwy, Meironnydd, son of Thomas Tegwyn Davies, author of Dinas Mawddwy a'i hamgylchoedd (1893). His mother, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair. He attended Dinas Mawddwy Elementary School and Dolgellau Grammar School until an illness kept him bedridden for five years and left him lame for the rest of his life. During his confinement he
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster main purpose. The family home was initially in Scott Street, then at 'Gwynant', Dumfries St., Treherbert. He married Olwen Williams, the daughter of Uriel Roger Williams, a shopkeeper, in Porth in January 1942; the couple had two children, Susan and Geraint. He worshipped at the Blaencwm Welsh Chapel, Tynewydd, and was its secretary for more than forty years. He was awarded the MBE for services to
DAVIES, MARGARET (fl. c. 1700-1785?), transcriber of many of the manuscripts preserved in our public collections - such as Y Goetre in the parish of Llanelltyd, Berth-lwyd near Dolgelley, Bronwion in the parish of Brithdir, and Plas Tan-y-fynwent in Dolgelley. It is fairly certain that she was related to the family which lived in Y Goetre and at Bronwion; it may be that she dwelt at Y Goetre in her later years, from about 1766 onwards. It was to that family that her books went. Manuscripts written by her are in
DAVIES, MATTHEW (fl. 1620), politician was the eldest son of Edward Davies of Chiches Grove (or Chisgrove), Wiltshire, and of the same family as Sir John Davies (1569 - 1626), poet and lawyer (see D.N.B.). Probably a client of the earls of Pembroke, he was returned, under the 3rd earl's patronage, for Cardiff in James I's first Parliament (5 March 1604), making a strong stand for the interests of the borough against the proposal to
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist support from fellow nationalists, they worked to establish it until 1938. Although this failed, Pantybeilïau developed as an influential political salon for Plaid Cymru, particularly a cadre of 'university women' like Noëlle. Ceinwen Thomas (1911-2008) lived as part of their family from 1941. Constantly promoting national education, after returning to Ireland in 1957 Noëlle was active in Daon-scoil na
DAVIES, OWEN PICTON (1882 - 1970), journalist Born 6 June 1882 at Waunffynhonnau, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, son of Stephen and Anna Davies of Tre-lech. The family moved to Morlogws Uchaf, in the parish of Cilrhedyn in 1884. He was educated at Pen-y-waun school from 1886 to 1894 and spent the following two years at home on the farm, as he was too young to go to the Old College School in Carmarthen, which he entered in 1896. From there he
DAVIES, RANDOLPH (bu farw 1695), cleric and controversialist and Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and sinecure rector of Northop, and by her had a large family, all christened between 1649 and 1666. With two other authors he published in 1660 a work attacking the Quakers, and in 1675 he wrote as sole author A Tryall of Spirits or Profiad yr Ysprydion (published at Oxford) against Papists, Presbyterians, Independents, and Quakers. Notwithstanding his published

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