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DAVIES, JOHN DAVID (1831 - 1911), cleric and antiquary Born at Oxwich parsonage, Gower, 14 January 1831; son of John Davies, rector of Reynoldston (1834-1873) and Louisa his wife. He entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a ' Rossall scholar,' 28 October 1850; graduated B.A. 20 February, taking the Divinity Testimonium, 24 March 1855, and M.A., 1859; was ordained deacon 23 September 1855, and licensed assistant curate of Nicholaston, and priest 21
DAVIES, JOHN ELIAS (Telynor y Gogledd; 1847 - 1883), harpist and accompanist
DAVIES, JOHN EVAN (Rhuddwawr; 1850 - 1929), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
DAVIES, JOHN GLYN (1870 - 1953), scholar, songwriter and poet Born 22 October 1870 at 55 Peel St., Sefton Park, Liverpool, son of John and Gwen Davies. His father was a tea merchant, and his mother was a daughter of John Jones, Tal-y-sarn; George Maitland Lloyd Davies, Stanley Davies and Captain Frank Davies were his brothers. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute. He worked with the sailing boat companies Rathbone Brothers (1887-92) and The Cambrian
DAVIES, JOHN GRIFFITH (1836 - 1861), poet and translator Second of the four children of John Davies (Siôn Gymro), Yetwen, Glandwr, Pembrokeshire (1804 - 1884), and his wife Phoebe, daughter of J. D. Griffiths and grand-daughter of John Griffiths, Glandwr (1731 - 1811). All four children died when comparatively young: Mary Ann in 1860 when she was 26, Elizabeth in 1859 at 19, David in 1848 aged 5, and John Griffith, who was lost overboard, near
DAVIES, JOHN GWYNORO (1855 - 1935), Calvinistic Methodist minister years he was chairman of the Barmouth urban council; and served on almost every Welsh public committee. He wrote several articles for Y Gwyddoniadur Cymreig, and was also the author of Flashes from the Welsh Pulpit, to which Thomas Charles Edwards contributed an introduction. He married (1) Mary, daughter of John Jones (Ivon, 1820 - 1898), and (2) Jeannie Mary, daughter of William Watkin, Muriau
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster His registered name was John Davies, but an aunt unaccountably and persistently referred to him as Haydn and it stuck: for the rest of his life he was known ubiquitously as John Haydn Davies. He was born in Hendrewen Road, Blaencwm, Rhondda Fawr, on 3 February 1905, the son of Daniel Davies (1881-1971) a stonemason and his wife Lucy (née Morgan) (c.1881-1961). The parents moved to the Rhondda
DAVIES, JOHN HUMPHREYS (1871 - 1926), bibliographer, man of letters, and educationist principalship, which he held till his death, With Sir John Williams and others he was one of the chief workers in the movement for a National Library of Wales, and one of its chief supporters after its foundation. His (Cwrtmawr) collection of books and manuscripts is now in that library. He was appointed a member of the Welsh Church Commission in 1908; in 1911 he was high sheriff of Cardiganshire and chairman
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

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