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DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist Republican Movement, Noëlle remained true to the leadership of Gwynfor Evans and became a more active branch speaker and election campaigner. Chastened by the horrors of World War Two and the advent of atomic weapons, she developed a comprehensive international policy for a Free Wales. Building on Plaid Cymru principles, she published and spoke on the value of small nations to the United Nations, and
DAVIES, OWEN (1719 - 1792), Independent minister Titus Evans was minister, but the congregation diminished and it was closed in the nineties.
DAVIES, OWEN (1840 - 1929), Baptist minister , Conway; they had a son and three daughters. He died 30 May 1929, and was buried in the new cemetery, Caernarvon; his widow died 22 November 1939. Owen Davies was in the foremost rank of Welsh preachers of his period and a leader of influence in his denomination. He was the author of several books, amongst them being Welsh biographies of John Pritchard, 1880, Christmas Evans, 1898, Robert Jones
DAVIES, REUBEN (Reuben Brydydd y Coed; 1808 - 1833), poet and schoolmaster schoolmaster at Cribin and, during the later years of his life, at Cilmaenllwyd, Carmarthenshire; he translated into Welsh the works of many Greek and Latin authors, particularly those of Ovid. An original manuscript of his works was in the possession of Rees Jenkin Jones of Aberdare, and the Rev. D. Evans of Cribin had a copy. He wrote over fifty hymns, and Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu, 1792 - 1846) thought
DAVIES, RICHARD OWEN (1894 - 1962), scientist and professor of agricultural chemistry the University of Wales in 1959. He served as external examiner in agricultural chemistry for the Institute of Chemistry from 1944 to 1954. He died 25 February 1962 and was buried in the public cemetery, Aberystwyth. He married in June 1929 Dinah Myfanwy, daughter of James Evans, Mydroilyn, Llannarth. She died 15 March, within a few weeks of her 100th birthday on 10 April 1987.
DAVIES, ROBERT HUMPHREY (Gomerian; 1856 - 1947), correspondent of Welsh and English newspapers life. He married, 2 February 1887, Annie Evans of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 'Gomerian' was connected with many Welsh and English newspapers published in the U.S.A., and developed into a fluent writer in both languages. He wrote much to Y Drych; when The Druid began publication at Scranton, Pennsylvania, he soon became one of its chief correspondents. He was very active in Welsh circles in Pittsburgh
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, 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, 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
DAVIES, THOMAS RHYS (1790 - 1859), Baptist minister visited North Wales, where he preached at the Amlwch assembly. In 1812, at the earnest request of Christmas Evans, he came to Llansantffraid Glan Conway and Rowen, but it was in his mother church at Cilfowyr, Pembrokeshire, that he was ordained in 1814. At that time there were only two churches in his circuit in North Wales. The total membership was thirty-five, scattered over twelve parishes, 'but,' he
DAVIES, Sir WILLIAM (LLEWELYN) (1887 - 1952), librarian Born at Plas Gwyn Schoolhouse, near Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, 11 October 1887, the third child and younger son of William Davies and his wife Jane (Evans), both natives of Llanafan, Cardiganshire. His father, formerly the Earl of Lisburne's gamekeeper, was then similarly employed at Broom Hall, near Pwllheli. When he was five his father entered the service of Sir Osmond Williams, Castell
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar the beginning of his career, and that it was in in a theological college in England, and not in his own country, that his first academic opportunity came. He was invited back to deliver the W.M. Llewelyn Memorial Lecture in Brecon Memorial College in 1954, the Sir D. Owen Evans Memorial Lecture in Aberystwyth in 1964, and the Pantyfedwen Lecture in Swansea in 1968. He was president of the Welsh

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