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DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College W.P. Jones died he served as principal of the college till he retired in 1964. He married in 1933 Olwen Jane, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Phillips, Merthyr Cynog, and they had one son. T.O. Davies was a prominent man in his denomination and in the public life of Brecknockshire. He was chairman of the United Colleges Board of his Connexion and was elected Moderator of the Association in the East in
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic becoming more numerous provided him with opportunities to compete. His eisteddfodic successes brought him to the notice of such persons as Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones, 1741 - 1814) and William Owen Pughe, and it was with Owain Myfyr's support that he went to S. Alban Hall, Oxford, in 1791, graduating from All Souls in 1795; he proceeded M.A. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1803. The eisteddfod had a
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1785 - 1851), Wesleyan minister and missionary Born 12 October 1785 near Llandyrnog, Denbighshire. In 1800, after listening to Edward Jones, Bathafarn (1778 - 1837), he became a member of the Wesleyan connexion and in 1805 before he was quite 20 years of age went to Beaumaris as minister. From 1806 until 1813 he was a minister in Montgomeryshire and South Wales, where he established many new churches. In 1814 he went to London, and before the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (Mynorydd; 1826 - 1901), sculptor and musician attended singing classes arranged by John Thomas (Ieuan Ddu, 1795 - 1871). He became leader of the Welsh Choral Society after Dan Jones. As a sculptor he exhibited about 40 times at the Royal Academy. He made busts of many Welsh preachers, and statues, that of Thomas Charles of Bala, now in front of the Calvinistic Methodist chapel at Bala, being his work. He died 22 September 1901, and was buried in the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (bu farw 1593), Roman Catholic missioner and martyr ' described by Pugh's grandson, Gwilym Pue, as having ministered to the Rhiwledyn recusants. A letter written in 1587 to archbishop Whitgift by William Griffith of Caernarvon (M.P. for the borough, 1586 described the discovery of the cave and the failure to arrest its occupants. Three years later he was arrested by Foulk Thomas at Holyhead, in the company of Robert Pugh and of four youths destined for the
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1859 - 1907), musician Born 1 October 1859 at Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire. As a child he was taught music by Hugh Griffith and Richard Mills (1840 - 1903 of Rhos. Before he was 20 he had won a prize for singing Handel's 'Total Eclipse.' Joseph Parry (1841 - 1903), the adjudicator, praised him highly and urged his friends to assist him to get a course of instruction at the University College, Aberystwyth. Funds
DAVIES, WILLIAM CADWALADR (1849 - 1905), educationist Chronicle at Llandudno, where he gave substantial assistance to Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn, 1806 - 1889) in the production of Cymru, 1875. He then removed to London to assist Sir Hugh Owen in the office of the new University College opened at Aberystwyth. In 1876 he was once more in Bangor, to follow his uncle again, this time as manager of the branch there of Messrs. Pugh Jones and Co.'s bank. In the
DAVIES, WILLIAM JENKIN (1858 - 1919), Unitarian minister, man of letters, and musician Born at Trecynon, Aberdare, 30 January 1858. He was educated at the Trecynon day schools and at the school maintained by R. Jenkin Jones; he became a pharmacist - hence his interest in the trees and plants of Llandysul parish. After a preparatory period under William James (1848 - 1907) he went to the Unitarian College at Manchester (1878-1881), and later spent a year at Owens College as a
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor Windsor Davies was born on 28 August 1930 in Canning Town in the East End of London, the son of Anyan Davies and his wife Maggie (née Jones). He had one sister, Glenys. Both his parents were Welsh speakers. In 1940, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, the family moved back to Anyan Davies's home village of Nant-y-Moel in Ogmore Vale. Windsor attended Ogmore Grammar School, and
teulu DAVIES-COOKE Gwysaney, Llannerch, Gwysaney, Griffith ap Howel, fifth in descent from Elstan Glodrydd. The patronymic Davies was first assumed by JOHN AP DAVID, who married Jane, widow of Richard Mostyn and daughter of Thomas Salisbury, of Leadbroke, Flintshire. They had three children - two sons, Robert and John, and a daughter, Catherine, who married Edward Morgan of Golden Grove, Flintshire. ROBERT DAVIES (?- 1600), who succeeded to the family
teulu DAVIS, coalowners throughout his life to the main Wesleyan connexion, the younger David Davis was drawn into the schism which led, in the Aberdare district, to the short-lived emergence of the 'Wesleyan Reform' connexion (see under William Jones, 1814? - 1895), and built the ' Reformers ' a chapel at Aberdare which, eventually, became Congregationalist. Of his daughters, the eldest, Mary, married the then vicar of Aberdare
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster Born at Goitre-isaf, Betws Bledrws, Cardiganshire, 14 February 1745, son of Timothy Jacob, he was accepted as a member at Cilgwyn 'in the year 1763 in the 18th year of his age.' He was taught by David Jones (Llanybydder), T. Lloyd (Llangeler), and Joshua Thomas, and further (1763-7) at the Academy (Grammar) School and the Academy at Carmarthen then under Jenkin Jenkins; he was, for a time, an

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