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DAVIES, LEWIS (1777 - 1828), major-general
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster Born at The Tramway, Hirwaun, Aberdare, Glamorganshire, 18 May, 1863, the youngest son of Lewis and Amy Davies. His father was a refiner in the Crawshay Ironworks at Hirwaun. The son was educated at Penderyn elementary school, where he became a pupil teacher. He won a scholarship to Bangor Normal College, where he remained for 2 years (1881-82) and then returned to Hirwaun as headmaster of the
DAVIES, MARY (Mair Eifion; 1846 - 1882), poet Born 17 October 1846 at Portmadoc, where she lived all her life, the elder daughter of captain Lewis Davies and Jennet, his wife, of the Tregunter Arms, Portmadoc. She was educated at a private school at Portmadoc which was maintained by a daughter of William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog). At an early age she showed an aptitude for writing poetry and received instruction from Ioan Madog (John Williams
DAVIES, MORRIS (Moi Plas; 1891 - 1961), quarryman, local historian and researcher - NLW MS 17843-17932 (there is a selection of them on microfilm in the Merioneth Record Office). Morris Davies (or ' Moi Plas ' as he was known locally), was a cultured, likeable and humorous person. He was twice married: (1) in 1919 to Kate Lewis, Cwm Cynfal, Ffestiniog (died 1929), and four daughters were born to them; (2) in 1931 to Lizzie Jones, Tanygrisiau (died 1968). He died in Blaenau
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist . In practice, it was a joint appointment. Dai made this clear to Saunders Lewis, 'She could lecture on Economics and almost any other of my subjects, if necessary as we have largely studied them together'. She was co-researcher and co-author of many of 'his' works, starting with The Economics of Welsh Self-Government (1931). This seminal publication was derived from Noëlle's 1926 translation of the
DAVIES, RANDOLPH (bu farw 1695), cleric and controversialist We have no information about his birth, parentage, education, and ordination. He was appointed vicar of Meifod, Montgomeryshire, 13 April 1647, by the (Puritan) Commissioners of the Great Seal; he was, therefore, an Anglican cleric who had conformed with the Commonwealth regime. Despite the statements that he was displaced by a Stephen Lewis at Meifod in 1648, there can be no doubt that he
DAVIES, THOMAS (1812 - 1895), Baptist minister and principal of Haverfordwest Baptist College on ' Ministerial education in Wales ' was published. He was chairman of the Welsh Baptist Union in 1874, a vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and chairman of the Haverfordwest school board. He married (1) Jane (died 1857), daughter of Lewis Williams, Merthyr, and (2) Emma (died 1899), daughter of the Rev. W. Davies, Hailsham.
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic North Wales (London, 1813), and a similar work, in two volumes, on South Wales, 1815 (Vol. I, Vol. II), which owed much to Iolo Morganwg; he also edited the works of the poets Huw Morys, 1823, and Lewis Glyn Cothi, 1837 - the latter in collaboration with John Jones (Tegid, 1792 - 1852); and further published in 1827 an edition of the metrical translation of the Psalms into Welsh made by William
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist was awarded the degrees of M.Sc. (1925) and D.Sc. (1945) of the University of Wales and was awarded an honorary D.Sc. degree by the University of New Zealand in 1956. He was honoured with the C.B.E. in 1964, and was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, and honorary life president of the European Grassland Federation. He married in 1928 Alice Muriel Lewis and they had one
DAVIES, WILLIAM LEWIS (1896 - 1941), specialist in analytical dairy chemistry
teulu DAVIS, coalowners DAVIS, DAVID, sen. (1797 - 1866), son of William David Jeffrey and Margaret (Lewis), was born in 1797 at Llanddeusant, Carmarthenshire. After serving as apprentice to his maternal uncle, Lewis Lewis, a grocer and draper at Merthyr Tydfil, he opened a shop of his own at Hirwaun, and soon afterwards married Mary Lewis, who seems to have been a daughter of Thomas Lewis, another uncle of his. They
DAVIS, DAVID (Dafis Castellhywel; 1745 - 1827), Arian minister, poet, and schoolmaster when D. Lewis Jones was appointed (1814) tutor at Carmarthen, and for a time he and John James of Gelli-onnen (1779 - 1864) seriously considered starting a specifically Unitarian college at Neath, but the project came to nothing. He died 4 December 1846 and was buried in the cemetery of Lammas Street chapel, Carmarthen. TIMOTHY DAVIS (1779 - 1860), Unitarian minister and schoolmaster Religion

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