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  • DAVID, JOHN (1701? - 1756), Independent minister he lived at Cilast near Manordivy, Pembrokeshire, and was a well-to-do farmer. He seems to have begun preaching c. 1736, and in 1745 succeeded Lewis Thomas (of Bwlch-sais) as pastor of the churches of Rhydyceisiaid, Carmarthenshire, and Glandŵr, Pembrokeshire. He itinerated over a wide area, reaching as far north as S. Dogmaels; in 1747-8 he had the assistance of Evan Williams (1719 - 1748), of
  • DAVID, REES (fl. 1746), early Arminian Baptist schoolmaster. In 1720 or 1721 he published a Welsh translation of the Baptist Association's Confession of Faith. This has been wrongly attributed to Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhyd-owen (1700? - 1742), an attribution not only improbable in itself but contradicted by the 'R.D.' appended to the book and to its preface. On the other hand, Joshua Thomas, oddly enough, credits David with Llun Agrippa, 1723 (a version
  • DAVID, THOMAS - gweler DAFYDD, THOMAS
  • DAVID, THOMAS ESSILE - gweler DAVIES, THOMAS ESSILE
  • DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM (1816 - 1884), Independent minister and ecclesiastical historian Born 11 June 1816 in Gower, where his father, a Ffald-y-brenin man and a kinsman of David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan, was minister. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his uncle, Thomas Thomas of Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire. It was intended that he should be a doctor but he insisted on following in his father's footsteps and was therefore sent to Homerton College
  • DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM RHYS (1843 - 1922), professor of comparative religion - gweler DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM
  • teulu DAVIES, smiths HUW DAVIES, smith, was living at Groes-foel, Esclusham, in the 17th century. He was buried in the churchyard at Wrexham, 2 September 1702. A handrail of exquisite design in the choir of Wrexham church and a small gate in Malpas churchyard (Cheshire) are attributed to him. He and his wife, Eleanor, had four sons, ROBERT (died 1748/9), JOHN (died 1755), Huw, and Thomas, and six daughters (Anne
  • DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman Lyn Talfan Davies (who married the rugby international Barry John), Christopher Humphrey Talfan Davies, and Kathryn Elizabeth Talfan Davies. Alun Talfan Davies was made QC in 1961 and knighted in 1976. He was appointed Recorder of Merthyr Tydfil in 1963; of Swansea in 1969; and later that year of Cardiff; was Honorary Cardiff Recorder and a Crown Court Recorder 1972-1983; Deputy Chair of Cardigan
  • DAVIES, Sir ALFRED THOMAS (1861 - 1949), the first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education
  • DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian military interpreter, he was sent to learn Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Among his colleagues there were John Silkin (1928-1987), the novelist Richard Mason (1919-1997), Peter Parker who was later the head of British Rail, and John Watkins who was to become a French lecturer at Bangor. He was quickly promoted in the 14th Army in Burma as an intelligence officer
  • DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council Alun Herbert Davies was born on 31 May 1927 in Llansamlet, Glamorgan (he adopted the name Creunant later), the only son of the Reverend Thomas Herbert (Creunant) Davies and Hannah Davies (née Thomas). The family moved to Pumsaint in Carmarthenshire in 1936 and Alun received his secondary education in Llandovery. Following the untimely death of his father, he continued his education at Trinity
  • DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher broadcasting, and at the end of the war he joined the staff of the BBC in Cardiff. He produced several radio talks by Dylan Thomas, providing the poet with some much-needed income. Some of those talks are included in Quite Early One Morning (1944). He was a personal friend of Dylan Thomas, and in his book Dylan: Druid of the Broken Body (1964), he maintained that Dylan was essentially a religious poet