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DAVIES, JOHN LLOYD (1801 - 1860) Blaendyffryn, Alltyrodyn,, M.P. Born at Aberystwyth 1 November 1801. He became articled to a solicitor, and at 24 years of age had succeeded to a practice in Newcastle Emlyn. In 1825 he married Anne, daughter of John Lloyd, Allt-yr-odyn, and through his marriage inherited that estate. He married, secondly, in 1857, Elizabeth Bluett, the only child of Thomas Bluett Hardwicke of Tytherington Grange, Gloucestershire. He was a J.P
DAVIES, JOHN PHILIP (1786 - 1832), Baptist minister, commentator, and divine Born 9 March 1786, son of David Davies, a clergyman at Bangor Teifi and Henllan, Cardiganshire. He joined the Baptists at Tre-fach and later became a member at Llandysul, where his father's brother, Daniel Davies, was minister. He began to preach in 1804 and was persuaded by Titus Lewis to go on a missionary tour to North Wales where, in 1810, he settled at Holywell as minister to the Flintshire
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Commission for British Museums and Art Galleries. In 1937 he was awarded an O.B.E. and knighted (K.B.E.) in 1939. He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire, was a F.S.A. and received an honorary LL.D. of the University of Wales in 1947. Among his publications are Men of Monmouthshire (1933); (with Averil Edwards) Women of Wales (1935); Welsh life in the eighteenth century (1939); (with Herbert Lloyd
DAVIES, MATTHEW WILLIAM (1882 - 1947), musician Born at Neath, Glamorganshire, August 1882 the son of Richard and Catherine Davies, Neath Abbey. As a child he learnt the Tonic Sol-fa, securing the A.C. certificate at the age of 12, and matriculating at 15. In 1890 he attended a course in London under Dr. David Evans (1874 - 1948) and when the latter was appointed to the chair of music at the university college at Cardiff, his pupil aged 20 won
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician became clerk to a legal firm at Llanfyllin with which David Williams (1799 - 1869 was connected, and he followed the firm when it moved to Portmadoc and then to Pwllheli. He was schoolmaster at Portmadoc, 1844-9, but in 1849 removed to Bangor to become a clerk, and died there 10 September 1876. Remembering his scrappy education and his constant shiftings for half a century, one cannot but be astonished
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer Son of George and Elizabeth Davies, of Tre'r Abbot, in the parish of Whitford, Flintshire. He was educated at the English Jesuit College in Rome, where he was ordained priest 17 April 1688. On 15 October of the same year he left college and returned home to work with the Jesuit missioners in Wales and the border counties. But before long he was converted to Protestantism, and wrote an 'apologia
DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations Myriel Davies was born in Swansea on 5 March 1920, the daughter and second child of a Congregationalist (Independent) minister, David Morgan (1883-1959), and his wife Sarah Jane (née Jones, 1885-1953). Her brother, Herbert Myrddin Morgan (1918-1999), had been born two years previously. She spent her early years at Glyn Neath, Caerau, Maesteg and Whitland before moving, aged 12, to Bancyfelin
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist , where she met David James (Dai) Davies (1893-1956). They rapidly developed a deep and loving relationship and symbiotic intellectual partnership. In Dublin from August 1924, with Margaret Cunningham, warden of Trinity Hall, she organised an influential campaign to establish an Irish Folk High-School, intending to marry Dai and both teach there. Frustrated by State support for denominational education
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister Born at Cae Plan, a farm near Pwllheli, 8 October 1840?. His father, Owen Davies, was cousin to David Owen Dewi Wyn o Eifion, (1784 - 1841). Educated at Llanystumdwy and Yokehouse, Pwllheli, he was afterwards apprenticed to a draper in Pwllheli, and at the age of 18 became an assistant in a draper's shop in S. Asaph. While at S. Asaph he began to preach. In 1862 he entered the Baptist College at
DAVIES, OWEN HUMPHREY (Eos Llechid; 1828 - 1898), quarryman, musician, and cleric Born September 1828 at Caerffynnon, Llanllechid, Caernarfonshire, son of David Humphreys and Sarah Davies. While still very young he began to study books on music, learned to read it, and had acquired a sufficient knowledge of harmony to compose an anthem at the age of 17. In 1845 he went to work at the Penrhyn quarries, where he remained for seventeen years. In 1848 he was appointed precentor of
DAVIES, OWEN PICTON (1882 - 1970), journalist Journalists. In the early years of radio, he wrote many technical articles on the subject to the press. Later he wrote about 50 feature programmes in Welsh, on topics relating to Welsh history and literature, which were broadcast from Cardiff. In 1962 he published his reminiscences in Atgofion Dyn Papur Newydd. In 1909 he married Jane Jones, eldest daughter of Captain and Mrs. David Jones, Caernarfon, and
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.

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