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DAVIES, RICHARD (1501? - 1581), bishop and biblical translator 1560. Because his see was poor (£187 11s. 6d.) he was allowed to hold 'in commendam' his Buckinghamshire livings and two benefices in S. Asaph. Early in 1560 he sent a certified list of his clergy to archbishop Parker. Elected bishop of S. Davids to succeed Thomas Young 21 March 1561, he took the oath 18 May, but the first notice in his register does not occur until September 1561. He took his place
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian the influence on the author of the grammars used by the bards of the 15th and 16th century, the works of William Owen Pughe, and the Egluryn Phraethineb of Henry Perri but there is also abundant evidence of Bardd Nantglyn's own study of the subject. At the end of the book the author printed the rules of Welsh prosody, which had been formulated by Dafydd Ddu Eryri (David Thomas, 1759 - 1822) and
DAVIES, ROBERT (1790 - 1841), Calvinistic Methodist elder devoted much of his time to the voluntary service of his connexion. He died 6 May 1892, and was buried at Llangeitho. Of his children, the eldest, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), married J. M. Saunders, and published a number of short sketches depicting Welsh religious and social life; DAVID CHARLES (1866 - 1928) became director of the Field Natural History Museum, Chicago; John Humphreys is separately
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 (1818 - 1891), Wesleyan minister ; he also published a memoir of Thomas Aubrey, 1887. In 1875 he was elected a member of the ' Legal Hundred.' He was a profoundly serious evangelical preacher and an admirable organizer both by temperament and training. In consequence of his strong common sense, his balanced judgment, his culture, and his unsparing industry, he became one of the outstanding Welsh Wesleyan leaders of his time. His
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 (1837 - 1892), mineralogist
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College Born 13 November 1812, son of John and Anne Davies, well-to-do farmers, Y Wern Fawr, S. Mellons (near Cardiff). He received a good education at a local school, and at the age of 16 moved to Dowlais, where he worked as a grocer's apprentice. He was baptized at Zion, Merthyr Tydfil, by David Saunders II, and with others helped to form the new church at Caersalem, Dowlais. Returning to S. Mellons in
DAVIES, THOMAS (Trithyd; 1810? - 1873?), musician and composer
DAVIES, THOMAS (1820 - 1873), Independent minister
DAVIES, THOMAS (TEGWYN; 1851 - 1924), tailor, book-collector and writer Born 11 November 1851, at Ty Gwyn, Abercywarch; his parents were Hugh and Elizabeth Davies. His wife, Elizabeth, was of the Breese family of Llanbryn-mair, and his son John Breese Davies was a specialist in cerdd dant. He was a tailor by trade, and among the houses at which (according to the old-time practice) he worked was the rectory of Llan-ym-Mawddwy in the days of D. Silvan Evans, who

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