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DAVIES, GRIFFITH (1788 - 1855), actuary of the newly established Local Government Board, and J. W. Thomas (Arfonwyson) to a place on the staff of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. In 1812 he married Mary Holbert, she died in 1836, leaving one daughter who became the wife of Samuel Dew, a solicitor of Llangefni. For his second wife he married a widow, a Mrs. Glynne. Both wives were buried at Bunhill Fields cemetery. Griffith Davies won
DAVIES, GRIFFITH (Gwyndaf; 1868 - 1962), poet, tutor of poets and antiquary Born 5 February 1868 at Llwynpïod, a smallholding in Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire. His father Griffith Davies died before he was born, and his mother experienced great hardship in bringing up her two sons, Griffith and Thomas. After attending the local school, Griffith spent some time at the famous school of Owen Owen (1850 - 1920 at Oswestry. He lived most of his long life farming Bryncaled, a
DAVIES, GWENDOLINE ELIZABETH (1882 - 1951), art collector and benefactress Born Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, 11 February 1882; her father Edward (1852 - 1898) was the only son of David Davies, ' Top Sawyer ' (1818 - 1890. Her mother Mary, daughter of the Rev. Evan Jones, Trewythen, died in 1888 and three years later Edward married her sister Elizabeth (died 1942). Gwen Davies and her sister Margaret were educated at Highfield School, Hendon, and through foreign travel
DAVIES, GWILYM (1879 - 1955), minister (B), promoter of international understanding, founder of the annual Goodwill Message from the Youth of Wales Born 24 March 1879 at Cwmfelin, Bedlinog, Glamorganshire (where there is a memorial tablet to him), one of the sons of D.J. Davies, minister (B). He was a pupil teacher at Bedlinog when his father moved to the neighbourhood of Llangadog and he became a pupil at Llandeilo grammar school. He began preaching as early as 1895, and trained for the ministry at the Midland Baptist College, Nottingham
DAVIES, GWILYM ELFED (Baron Davies of Penrhys), (1913 - 1992), Labour politician He was born at Tylorstown in the Rhondda valley on 9 October 1913, the son of David Davies, a coalminer and Miriam Elizabeth Williams. He received his education at Tylorstown elementary school. He worked as a coalminer at the Tylorstown colliery, 1928-59. He joined the South Wales Miners Federation in 1929, served as its lodge chair, 1934-40, and its treasurer, 1940-54. He was chairman of the
DAVIES, GWILYM PRYS (1923 - 2017), lawyer, politician and language campaigner Gwilym Prys Davies was born on 8 December 1923 in Oswestry, Shropshire, the son of William Davies (1874-1949) and his wife Mary Matilda (née Roberts (1888-1974). His parents had moved from Llanegryn in Merionethshire in 1921 to run a guest house in Oswestry. He had one sister, Mairwen (1922-2004). The family moved back to Llanegryn when Gwilym was five, and he was brought up in Pen-y-Banc, a
DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar Gwynne Henton Davies was born in Aberdare, Glamorgan, in 1906. He was the son of John Davies and Edith Henton. His father's family had moved to the Valleys in search of work from the Vale of Glamorgan, and his mother came from a family of rural tailors in Pembrokeshire. His parents had married in 1904 and Gwynne was born in 1906, his brother, John Mansel, being born five years later. He was
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DAVIES, HAYDN GEORGE (1912 - 1993), cricketer Haydn Davies was born in Llanelli on 23 April 1912. He was educated at Llanelli Grammar School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Haydn Davies was one of the finest wicketkeepers who never played for England. His career was interrupted by the Second World War, when he served as a captain in the Royal Artillery. He was selected to play in the Test Trial in 1946, but unfortunately
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister built a chapel there (lease dated 1743), which is still in use - the first Nonconformist place of worship in the Rhondda region. Davies lived at Eirw (Hafod); he met his death by drowning (O. Morgan, History of Pontypridd and the Rhondda Valleys, 286), being unseated by his frightened horse while fording the Rhondda, in July 1766; the exact date is illegible on his tombstone [but according to the
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DAVIES, HENRY (1753 - 1825), Baptist minister DAVIES II (1786? - 1862) was his co-adjutor and successor in the pastorate. The year of his birth is variously given; his tombstone implies 1786, but other statements put it at 1785 or even 1783. He began preaching in 1805, went to Abergavenny Baptist College in January 1809, and was ordained in 1811 as one of the four joint pastors of Llangloffan - at the time of his death, 23 August 1862, he was one

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