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DAVIES, ROLAND (fl. c. 1730), poet a native of Llangynyw, Montgomeryshire. Nothing is known of his life, but at least two of his poems, in free metre, remain in manuscripts. They are a love poem and an elegy upon a John Evans, also of Llangynyw.
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1788 - 1854), Wesleyan Methodist minister known as ' Samuel Davies, 1st '. Born 9 June 1788 at Maes-y-groes, Cilcain, Flintshire. Converted to religion at the age of 13, he joined the Wesleyan Methodists at Maeshafn, near Mold. In January 1807 he was sent by Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) as an itinerant preacher to Cardiganshire, and for the next thirty-nine years he 'travelled' on various circuits in Wales as well as in Liverpool and
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1818 - 1891), Wesleyan minister Born at Denbigh, 1818, son of David and Anne Davies. He was admitted to the ministry in 1843. He edited Y Winllan, 1854-5, and was editor of Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd for two periods, 1859-65 and 1875-86. He was secretary of the province of North Wales, 1858-65, and chairman of the same province, 1866-86. He published a memoir of Samuel Davies ' the 1st ' under the title Samuel Davies a'i Amserau
DAVIES, SAMUEL (1734? - 1820), physician - gweler DAVIES, HENRY
DAVIES, SAMUEL (bu farw 1781) Merthyr - gweler DAVIES, JAMES
DAVIES, SOROBABEL (1806 - 1877), schoolmaster and Baptist minister pupils. In 1852 he migrated to Australia, and became schoolmaster under the State; he kept on preaching, and it is open to debate whether it was he or W. M. Evans, the Methodist, who preached the first Welsh sermon in Australia. He became a newspaper proprietor and editor of the Pleasant Creek News (that was the name of the district he settled in, 150 miles from Melbourne). He invested money in the
DAVIES, STEPHEN (bu farw 1794), revived the defunct 17th century Baptist church at Carmarthen town, and came to live there - in Lammas Street; and in 1768 (Joshua Thomas, Hist. Bapt. Assoc., 62) Ffynnonhenry and Priory Street were incorporated as a single church. In 1775 some members wished to have Stephen Davies ordained co-pastor, but there was so much opposition that a schism arose. Davies's opponents removed to the old Priory - this was the congregation which afterwards became the Dark
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician He was born at 39 John Street, Abercwmboi, Aberdare, probably (or officially) on 8 or 9 November 1886. Some sources place his birth in 1883 or even earlier. According to the 1891 census, he was nine years of age at that time. He was the fourth of the six children of Thomas Davies, farm labourer, coalminer and trades union officer (died 1909), who had been excommunicated from Soar chapel, Mountain
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College
DAVIES, THOMAS (Trithyd; 1810? - 1873?), musician and composer
DAVIES, THOMAS (1820 - 1873), Independent minister
DAVIES, THOMAS (1823 - 1898), Independent minister

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