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DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar , Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1950, pp. 37-51; The Approach to the Old Testament. An Inaugural Lecture delivered on May 15, 1953, to the Durham Colleges in the University of Durham: London, The Carey Kingsgate Press, 1953; 'Select Bibliography of the Writings of Harold Henry Rowley', in Wisdom in Israel and the Ancient Near East, H. H. Rowley Festschrft, eds., M. Noth and D. W. Thomas; Supplements to Vetus
DAVIES, HENRY (1696? - 1766), Independent minister diary of William Thomas (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1949, 46) it was 28 July - Thomas adds the rather wild statement that he was then 84 years old], at the age of 70; his widow died in 1772, aged 77. A booklet of extracts from a pocket-book of his was published (Llangollen, 1840) by J. Rufus Williams, under the title Hen Lyfr H.D., with a preface, containing useful
DAVIES, HENRY (1753 - 1825), Baptist minister 1788) baptized John Richard Jones 'of Ramoth '. The French landing near Fishguard (1797) brought him trouble. Despite the fact that the invaders raided his farm and menaced his person, he was charged with 'collaboration,' and though the charge was dropped, his effigy was burnt at Fishguard fair on 2 February 1798. He died 9 May 1825, and was buried in Hermon burial ground, Fishguard. His son, HENRY
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DAVIES, HOWEL (c. 1716 - 1770), Methodist cleric It is thought that he was born in Monmouthshire, but he is known to have had an uncle living at Llanspyddid, near Brecon. In 1737 he was a schoolmaster at Talgarth, where he was converted by Howel Harris. Acting on the latter's advice he went to Llanddowror to study under Griffith Jones. He was ordained deacon in 1739 and priest in 1740. He served as curate under Griffith Jones at Llandilo
DAVIES, HUGH (1739 - 1821), cleric and author of Welsh Botanology ). He explains in his preface that 'a constitutional nervous sensibility' having rendered him unequal to the duties of his profession, he retired to Beaumaris and devoted himself to the production of this book. (For the bishop of Bangor's licence, 1810, to absent himself from his rectory at Aber for two years, see NLW MS 6666D.) He had assisted Thomas Pennant with his Indian Zoology, published in 1790
DAVIES, HUGH THOMAS (1881 - 1969), musician, writer, and one of the pioneers of Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant Cymru Born 5 April 1881 at Y Felin Uchaf, Glanconwy, Denbighshire, son of Richard Davies and his wife Eunice (née Williams). He married, 4 September 1909, Margaret, daughter of Griffith R. Jones, minister (B) of Ffordd Las, Glanconwy, and they had five children, all of whom became interested in Welsh traditional cultural activities. As the surveyor for Conwy, H.T. Davies lived for some time in
DAVIES, HUMPHREY (bu farw 1635), vicar of Darowen, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts Son of David ap Griffith, a cleric hailing from the Harlech district, and Jonet, daughter of David ap Thomas of Maes-y-neuadd. He is said to have been rector of Llanfyllin for a few months in 1571 and to have left to study at Cambridge. His career at Cambridge appears to have been confused in the reference books with that of a native of Leamington Hastings who bore the same name. Judging by the
DAVIES, HYWEL (1919 - 1965), broadcaster as an interviewer in television programmes. In 1959 he and the producer, David J. Thomas, won an award for their programme ' Out of this world ' in an international competition in Monte Carlo. Again, in 1962, he was the interviewer in the programme ' It happened to me ', which was successful in the same competition. He was praised for his television broadcasts from the International Eisteddfod at
DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician his living as an accountant with I. Rowland Jones Ltd., 1931-39, as a personnel officer with ICI, 1942-47, the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labour, 1947-48, and later with the Aluminium Wire & Cable Co., 1948-59. He was also an official at the Statistics Department of the Ministry of Labour, 1947-49. Davies was chosen secretary of Gowerton Welsh Congregational church in 1948. Ifor Davies
DAVIES, JAMES (Iago ap Dewi; 1800 - 1869), printer and poet Thomas (Gwilym Mai, 1807 - 1872), and together they developed their knowledge of cynghanedd and of the free metres. About 1840 Davies left Carmarthen to join Josiah Thomas Jones's printing office at Cowbridge, and for the rest of his life remained a faithful and trustworthy printer with J. T. Jones, removing with him to Carmarthen in 1842, and to Aberdare in 1854. He was a constant competitor in
DAVIES, JAMES (bu farw 1760), Independent minister Williams (1709 - 1784), the minister of Watford and Cardiff. SAMUEL DAVIES (died 1781) Religion He was at Carmarthen with Thomas Morgan (1720 - 1799), who speaks most highly of him and attended his ordination in 1746 to a pastorate in Wiltshire. His defection to Arminianism (or Arianism) provoked unfriendly comment in the diaries of Philip David and of Edmund Jones, but it is clear that he was held in

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