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DAVIES, JOHN IDRIS (Ioan Idris; 1821 - 1889), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Meironnydd, son of John Davies, bookbinder and stationer, he attended school at Dolgelley and was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle, Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill, 1780 - 1861), carpenter, who, together with John Jones (Idris Fychan, 1825 - 1887), taught him the Welsh bardic rules. At the age of 21 he emigrated to Utica, N.Y., where he became an elder in the Welsh Calvinistic
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), translator, chaplain, and one of the most successful of the early climbers of the Alps Son of John Davies, cleric and philosopher. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Hulsean Lecturer, Cambridge, Lady Margaret Preacher at Oxford, chaplain to Queen Victoria, an advocate of higher education of women, and an associate of Frederick Denison Maurice. He was joint author (with D. J. Vaughan) of a well-known translation of The Republic of Plato He was one of the 31 founding
DAVIES, JOHN LLEWELYN (1826 - 1916), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge - gweler DAVIES, JOHN
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 OSSIAN (1851 - 1916), Congregational minister and author
DAVIES, JOHN PARK (1879 - 1937), Unitarian minister
DAVIES, JOHN PHILIP (1786 - 1832), Baptist minister, commentator, and divine
DAVIES, JOHN SALMON (1940 - 2016), scientist John Davies was born on 7 June 1940 at St. Dogmael's, Cardiganshire, the son of Theophilus Salmon Davies and his wife Megan (née Davies). He was born at his mother's home, but was raised in Trelech, Carmarthenshire, where his father was a blacksmith before turning to farming. John attended Trelech Primary School and then Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Carmarthen where he first became
DAVIES, LEWIS (1777 - 1828), major-general son of John Davies of Crugiau, Llanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth, joined the army in 1791, fought on the Continent (1794, 1799), in the West Indies (1796), and in the Peninsular War, distinguishing himself particularly at Salamanca (1812). He married Jane, daughter of Matthew Davies, of Cwm Cynfelyn, retired to Tan-y-bwlch, Aberystwyth, and died there 10 May 1828, aged 51. Jane Davies's sister, Anne
DAVIES, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet Born 17 October 1846 at Portmadoc, where she lived all her life, the elder daughter of captain Lewis Davies and Jennet, his wife, of the Tregunter Arms, Portmadoc. She was educated at a private school at Portmadoc which was maintained by a daughter of William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog). At an early age she showed an aptitude for writing poetry and received instruction from Ioan Madog (John Williams
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 was the eldest son of Edward Davies of Chiches Grove (or Chisgrove), Wiltshire, and of the same family as Sir John Davies (1569 - 1626), poet and lawyer (see D.N.B.). Probably a client of the earls of Pembroke, he was returned, under the 3rd earl's patronage, for Cardiff in James I's first Parliament (5 March 1604), making a strong stand for the interests of the borough against the proposal to

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