Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig

DAVIES, Sir ALFRED THOMAS (1861 - 1949), the first Permanent Secretary (1907-25) of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education of the Denbighshire County Council and its Education Committee. After his retirement from the Board, though he lived in England, he continued to interest himself in Welsh matters, founding the Ceiriog Memorial Institute at Glyn Ceiriog, and publishing (in addition to numerous pamphlets) two biographical volumes: O.M. (a memoir of Sir Owen M. Edwards; 1946) and The Lloyd George I knew (1948). He was
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the
DAVIES, CERIDWEN LLOYD (1900 - 1983), musician and lecturer to take that degree in the University of Wales (the first was the composer Morfydd Llwyn Owen). Following a period of study at the Royal Academy of Music in London, at the age of 24 she was appointed Director of Music Studies at the Normal College, Bangor, a post she retained until 1930; by 1932 she had become a lecturer at St Mary's College, another teacher training college in Bangor. On 9 July
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, DANIEL JOHN (1885 - 1970), Independent minister and poet he was influenced by O.R. Owen, the minister of Glandŵr Independent chapel. He started to preach there at Whitsun, 1906. After a period at Old College School at Carmarthen he took an honours course in Hebrew at University College, Cardiff and graduated in 1913, followed by a theological course at the Memorial College, Brecon. The authorities at Brecon had prevented him from taking Welsh as his main
DAVIES, DAVID (1880 - 1944) Llandinam, first BARON DAVIES (created 1932) . From 1919 David Davies was equally tireless in the pursuit of international peace, carrying on the tradition of the Welsh pioneers Richard Price, Robert Owen, and Henry Richard. A founder of the League of Nations Union, he later gained prominence as the foremost advocate of strengthening the League of Nations by the creation of an International Police Force. In 1932 he established the New
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author campaign for disestablishment, but his personal relations with bishop John Owen (1854 - 1926) became most friendly. At 62, he became a frequent competitor at the national eisteddfod, and won several essay prizes (one of the essays submitted by him was The Influence of the French Revolution on Welsh Life and Literature, published in 1926). An effect of this competing was to make him a caustic critic of
DAVIES, DAVID JOSHUA (1877 - 1945), dramatist popular play Maes y Meillion. His play Owen Glyndŵr remains unpublished. He married Annie Davies, New Quay, 6 April 1904, in St. Paul's, Aberystwyth, and they had four children. He died 8 January 1945, and was buried in New Quay.
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian daughters and a son. He married (2), 1914, Zabeth Susanah Owen, headmistress of Blaenau school, Gors-goch. He died 29 December 1964, five days after his wife.
DAVIES, THOMAS (1512? - 1573), bishop of St Asaph Catherine (wife of William Holland of Abergele - see Holland families, 10), her children (Piers, William, and Edward), and his brothers Hugh, Griffith, and Owen. He died immediately after completing his will, on 16 October 1573, and was buried at Abergele.
DAVIES, EDWARD OWEN (1864 - 1936), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author
DAVIES, GRACE GWYNEDDON (1878 - 1944), singer and folk-song collector : Alawon Gwerin Môn (Folk-songs of Anglesey, 1914), Ail Gasgliad o Alawon Gwerin Môn (Second Collection of Folk-songs of Anglesey, 1923), and Chwech o Alawon Gwerin Cymreig (Six Welsh Folk-songs, 1933). For the two volumes of Anglesey folk-songs she relied heavily on the singing of Owen Parry of Dwyran, whose voice she recorded on the phonograph. Although she composed her own accompaniments to the songs

Canlyniadau chwilio

49 - 60 of 893 for "Morfydd owen"