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DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Born 16 May 1894, son of William L.T. and M.L. (née Brown) Davies of Chester. He was a great-grandson of Samuel Davies ' the first ', a Methodist minister and his wife Mary (née Twiston). Out of respect for his great-grandfather, he wrote The Rev. Samuel Davies (the first) and his times (1932), which is an English version of the Welsh biography (1866). He was educated at Charterhouse and
DAVIES, MARY (1855 - 1930), singer Born in London, 27 February 1855, daughter of William Davies (Mynorydd, 1826 - 1901). Her singing at the Welsh concerts in the capital brought her into prominence while she was still young; her first teachers were Henry Brinley Richards and Megan Watts Hughes. She joined the Welsh Choral Union which was then under the conductorship of John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia, 1826 - 1913), and, in 1873 won a
DAVIES, MATTHEW (fl. 1620), politician electoral malpractices of Sir Thomas Parry as chancellor of the duchy. In later Parliaments he sat for English constituencies, at first within the Pembroke sphere of influence in Wiltshire, but he ceased to take any notable part in debates. Having 'deserted' his seat in the Long Parliament, he was 'disabled,' for refusing to attend on summons (15 March 1643). His home was at this time at Shaftesbury, a
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 (Meurig Ebrill; 1780 - 1861), poet Born at Dolgelley, he was apprenticed to a carpenter and eventually worked at his trade in some of the larger houses of the neighbourhood, e.g. Nannau, Hengwrt, Dolserau, and Caerynwch. When he was about 13 years of age he came to know Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant, 1739 - 1810), who was then at Bala. He wrote numerous poems on a variety of subjects, many of them dealing with local occurrences
DAVIES, MORRIS (1796 - 1876), author, hymnologist, and musician (Gwilym Glan Hafren, 1788 - 1838) at Welshpool. After six months there, he kept school, at Pont Robert, Llanfyllin, Syston, Leicestershire, Llanfair Caereinion, and Llanfyllin again, till 1836. The parson of Syston was Edward Morgan (1784 - 1869), who was at the time engaged on his Life of Thomas Charles, and it was Davies who copied for him the 150 letters by Charles used in that book. In 1836 he
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer example, the 2nd edition of Clerus Britanus, included in vol. v of Athenae Britannicae, is dated 1716. Also there is extant a short Latin ode of greeting to Thomas Parker, lord Macclesfield, who was raised to the peerage in 1716 (see Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society, vi, 309).
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist Noëlle Davies was born at Bushy Park, Mount Talbot, Co. Roscommon on 25 December 1899, the eldest daughter of Thomas Cornwall Ffrench (died 1941), farmer, and his artistic wife Georgina (née Kennedy, died 1941); she had a younger sister, Rosamund (died 1966). Privately-tutored to the age of thirteen, the Church of Ireland congregant attended the French School, Bray, County Wicklow (1914-1918
DAVIES, OWEN (1752 - 1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born at Wrexham, a twin son of Owen Davies, tailor. In his youth, he went to London and thence to Brentford, where he became a Wesleyan Methodist and married a Mrs. Hemans, a widow whose son Thomas entered the Methodist ministry. In due course, he returned to London and began to visit the workhouses of the city and to preach. At the request of John Wesley, conveyed to him by Thomas Olivers, he
DAVIES, OWEN (1719 - 1792), Independent minister Titus Evans was minister, but the congregation diminished and it was closed in the nineties.
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister , Conway; they had a son and three daughters. He died 30 May 1929, and was buried in the new cemetery, Caernarvon; his widow died 22 November 1939. Owen Davies was in the foremost rank of Welsh preachers of his period and a leader of influence in his denomination. He was the author of several books, amongst them being Welsh biographies of John Pritchard, 1880, Christmas Evans, 1898, Robert Jones
DAVIES, REES (1694? - 1767), Independent minister 'Cromindee,' but by 1724 Rees Davies was minister of the congregation at Goitre which in 1744 removed to a new chapel in Llanover parish, patriotically called 'Hanover.' [The 'Cromindee' ('Comb du') Congregation and the later (1744) 'Hanover' Congregation were one and the same (Isaac Thomas in Y Cofiadur, 1958, 12-13).] Davies is said to have been well-to-do (he certainly married well) and well educated

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