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DAVIES, HAYDN GEORGE (1912 - 1993), cricketer
DAVIES, Sir HENRY WALFORD (1869 - 1941), musician Professor of Music at Gresham College, London. In 1919 he accepted the dual posts of Director of Music to the University of Wales, and Professor of Music at Aberystwyth university college, the latter post he relinquished in 1926. He was knighted in 1922, and on the death of Edward Elgar in 1934, King George V appointed him Master of the King's Musick. He was made a C.V.O. in 1932 and K.C.V.O. in 1937. His
DAVIES, HUMPHREY (bu farw 1635), vicar of Darowen, and transcriber of Welsh manuscripts of Edward Stanley, constable of Harlech castle in 1551. Eulogistic poems were addressed to him by Griffith, John, and Richard Phylip, Ieuan Tew Brydydd the second of Arwystli, and Evan Lloyd of Gwaun Einion. Both John and Richard Phylip state that in his younger days he translated books from other languages into Welsh, but it is not known what books they were.
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies of Nerquis; 1799? - 1879), Calvinistic Methodist minister renowned in his day for his wit and originality. There is a 'biography' of him, by George Jones (Wrexham, 1907), very deficient in dates and other particulars. It would seem that he was brought up at Mold, though his family hailed from Nerquis, Flintshire; he was received into Mold Methodist society in 1815 'when 16 years of age' (G. Owen, Methodistiaeth Sir Fflint, 323), and according to his
DAVIES, JOHN (1860 - 1939), Welsh bibliographer and genealogist Mrs. Lucy E. Lloyd Theakston he compiled and edited Some Pedigrees of the Lloyds of Allt yr Odyn, Castell Hywel, Ffos y Bleiddiaid, Gilfach Wen, Llan Llyr, and Waun Ifor (Oxford, 1912). He also arranged for publication the contents of Rhestr Eisteddfodau hyd y Flwyddyn 1901 gyda nodiadau ar amryw ohonynt (Llandyssul, 1914), material which D. M. Richards of Aberdare had accumulated over many years
DAVIES, JOHN (c. 1567 - 1644), one of the greatest of Welsh scholars Born in the parish of Llanferres, Denbighshire, the son of David ap John ap Rees, who is said to have been a weaver, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis ap David Lloyd; he had three sisters, Jane, Catherine, and Gwen. Very little is known with certainty about him before he went to Mallwyd. He is said to have spent four years at Jesus College, Oxford, and to have graduated on 16 March 1593/4
DAVIES, JOHN (1652 - post 1716) Rhiwlas,, genealogist and died in 1695; a son, Edward, born 9 November 1683, had died 14 February 1684, and another daughter, Jane, was born 11 January 1688 - Peniarth MS 144, 269); Margaret, the wife, was buried 21 April 1719 - Mr. Watkins (from St Asaph MS. 41) gives her father as Thomas Lloyd of Llanwddyn. His son's death in infancy explains why Davies's manuscripts passed to the nephew, for whom see Archæologia
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 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
DAVIES, Sir LEONARD TWISTON (1894 - 1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies Commission for British Museums and Art Galleries. In 1937 he was awarded an O.B.E. and knighted (K.B.E.) in 1939. He served as Deputy Lieutenant of Monmouthshire, was a F.S.A. and received an honorary LL.D. of the University of Wales in 1947. Among his publications are Men of Monmouthshire (1933); (with Averil Edwards) Women of Wales (1935); Welsh life in the eighteenth century (1939); (with Herbert Lloyd
DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662 - 1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer Son of George and Elizabeth Davies, of Tre'r Abbot, in the parish of Whitford, Flintshire. He was educated at the English Jesuit College in Rome, where he was ordained priest 17 April 1688. On 15 October of the same year he left college and returned home to work with the Jesuit missioners in Wales and the border counties. But before long he was converted to Protestantism, and wrote an 'apologia
DAVIES, RACHEL (Rahel o Fôn; 1846 - 1915), lecturer and preacher (Blackwell says 'the Independents'). She preached often in various places in the state of Ohio c. 1871. She returned to Wales for a period and lived at Dwyran, Anglesey; at this time she gave some assistance to David Lloyd George in his electoral campaign. She married, in the U.S.A., Edward Davies, a native of Cardiganshire; and died 29 November 1915.

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