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DANIEL, WILLIAM RAYMOND (1928 - 1997), association football player Ray Daniel was born 2 November 1928 at Plasmarl, Swansea, the youngest of William and Cissie Daniel's (née Norman) three children. The family lived in a part of the director's house at the British Mannesmann Tube Co., Ltd, steelworks where the father was a storeman. The Liberty Stadium, home of Swansea City FC, is located on the site of the works. Ray Daniel began his career as an amateur with
DAVID, PHILIP (1709 - 1787) Penmain, Independent minister Born in the Ebbw Fawr valley, Monmouthshire, 11 June 1709. His thoughts were turned to religion by the preaching of James Davies of Merthyr Tydfil (died 1760), c. 1720. He began preaching in 1732, and in 1739 was ordained co-pastor of Penmain to assist David Williams (who had been there since 1710, and remained there till his death in 1759). Philip David was then pastor till he died 3 February
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman as deputy chair 1973-1991 and chair 1991-1996. He was also a director of the Cardiff World Trade Centre 1985-1997. He was a co-founder of the Welsh Portrait Sculpture Trust in 1980, and he and others successfully campaigned to save Dinefwr Park and Castle. Sir Alun Talfan Davies died on 11 November 2000 in a nursing home in Penarth. Some of his papers are in the National Library of Wales, which
DAVIES, DANIEL (1840 - 1916), cashier to the Ocean Collieries at Ton, Ystrad, Glamorganshire ), and wrote a biographical note at the beginning of Gwaith Barddonol Islwyn (O. M. Edwards), 1897. Sir Owen M. Edwards stated that Islwyn's works could never have been published in collected form but for the co-operation of Daniel Davies. The correspondence which he received from a large number of ministers and writers of his period is preserved at N.L.W.
DAVIES, DAVID (1753 - 1820), Methodist cleric subject of the present note was only 16 years of age in 1769. He became rector of Llanfyrnach and Penrieth, Pembrokeshire on the 9 December 1797, and co-operated with the Methodists until the secession in 1811. He was one of the trustees of the chapel at Newport, Pembrokeshire, which the Methodists lost in 1811, when he repudiated them. He died 18 October 1820. His tombstone is in Llanfyrnach churchyard.
DAVIES, DAVID (1818 - 1890) Llandinam, industrialist and Member of Parliament Davies took a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sank the Parc and Maendy pits. David Davies and Co. was formed as a private company under his chairmanship in 1867 to work these ' Ocean Merthyr ' pits, and new collieries were sunk - Dare (1868), Western and Eastern (1872), Garw (1884), and Lady Windsor (1885). In 1887 the output had so increased that it was deemed advisable to set up a
DAVIES, DAVID ARTHUR (1913 - 1990), meteorologist RAF where he became Senior Meteorological Officer for the British Expeditionary Force. He helped co-ordinate RAF flights across the North Atlantic and directed the meteorological services which enabled aircraft to reach the vital Yalta conference in 1945. In 1947 he returned to the Meteorological Service as Principal Scientific Officer. From 1949 to 1955 he worked in East Africa, gaining a wide
DAVIES, DAVID CAXTON (1873 - 1955), printer and company director Born at Lampeter, Cardiganshire, 8 August 1873, son of David and Margaret Davies (the oldest inhabitant of the town when she died 28 December 1937). Educated in his native town, he became manager of the Welsh Church Press at Lampeter, and (1909-19) of Grosvenor and Chater & Co., London; manager and director of William Lewis, Ltd., printers, Cardiff, and of Davies, Harvey and Murrell, Ltd., paper
DAVIES, DAVID JAMES (1893 - 1956), economist mines and, with others, established the Northwestern Coal and Coke Co., Steamboat Springs, Colorado. He travelled widely in America and visited China and Japan; he also found time for boxing and studying law at the Universities of Seattle and Pueblo. In 1918 he joined the U.S. Navy and trained as an engineer but returned to Wales in 1919 (being discharged from the Navy in 1920). He worked for a short
DAVIES, DAVID JOSHUA (1877 - 1945), dramatist Born in Troedyrhiw, Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, 26 December 1877, son of John Davies and Mary (née Evans) his wife. He was educated in Mydroilyn elementary school and the tutorial school in New Quay. He almost lost his sight there, but after recuperating he became an apprentice in an ironmonger's store in Swansea. He returned to manage the co-operative store at Llannarth. In 1910 he took a
DAVIES, DAVID VAUGHAN (1911 - 1969), anatomist . In 1960 the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council established an electron-microscopy unit at St Thomas's with Davies as the first Director. His chief interest throughout his research career was the anatomy and physiology of synovial joints, and in 1961 he was co-author of Synovial Joints, Their Structure and Mechanics. He also wrote extensively on arthrology and contributed to The Textbook of Rheumatic
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher , subsequently, acquired the business. He became its manager-editor and edited and published the newspaper, Brecon and Radnor County Times, for twelve years. He married Hannah Eleanor Blissett (died February 1929) and had seven sons and four daughters. In later years he used his wife's surname (Blissett) in the style of his business, Blissett Davies and Co. His most important and permanent contribution to the

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