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DAVIES, RANDOLPH (bu farw 1695), cleric and controversialist opinions he is said to have interceded with bishop William Lloyd (1627 - 1717) of St Asaph on behalf of a body of Independents living in his own parish: his great desire seems to have been to live at peace with all men, especially with his own ecclesiastical superiors and his neighbours. He was buried 24 February 1695.
DAVIES, RICHARD (1635 - 1708), Quaker , Charles Lloyd, Dolobran, and his brother Thomas Lloyd and other leading Friends accompanied him in journeys to Merioneth and the counties of South Wales. His marriage took place in 1657 at Horsleydown, Southwark. He died 22 January 1708 and was interred in the Friends' burial ground at Cloddiau Cochion.
DAVIES, ROBERT (Bardd Nantglyn; 1769 - 1835), poet and grammarian warmly supported by him. It was he who won the prize at Caerwys in 1798 for an awdl on 'Cariad i'n Gwlad,' and in the provincial eisteddfod of Dyfed held at Carmarthen in 1819 he was co-adjudicator with Iolo Morganwg. His successes included the prize at Wrexham in 1820 for an awdl on the death of George III, and several prizes at Beaumaris in 1832. But his eisteddfod activities brought him also a good
DAVIES, ROBERT HUMPHREY (Gomerian; 1856 - 1947), correspondent of Welsh and English newspapers ; for fourteen years he was secretary of the St. David's Day Society and he was twice elected its president. He arranged several eisteddfodau and visited Wales to invite David Lloyd-George to attend the international eisteddfod to be held in the U.S.A. At the suggestion of Lloyd George he formed the American Gorsedd of Bards of which he became the recorder; he served, e.g. as recorder, of the Gorsedd
DAVIES, (FLORENCE) ROSE (1882 - 1958), Labour activist and local alderman movements throughout Wales. She played a major role in the preparation of the impressive peace memorial from the women of Wales to the women of the United States. Davies was a warm admirer of the work of George M. Ll. Davies. In the momentous general election of 30 May 1929, Rose Davies stood as the first ever Labour candidate for the Honiton division of Devon, singularly unpromising territory for the
DAVIES, STEPHEN OWEN (1886? - 1972), miners' leader and Labour politician Tal Lloyd, the official Labour candidate. He was then expelled from the Labour Party. The outcome was eloquent testimony to the esteem in which he was held locally. In Parliament he maintained thereafter discreet links with the Parliamentary Labour Party and was sent a copy of the Labour whip, though he was nominally an independent. Shortly afterwards, he refused to accept the freedom of the borough
DAVIES, THOMAS ESSILE (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt; 1820 - 1891), poet and editor 'Thomas Essile David.' The middle name 'Essile' (corresponding to the 'Essyllt' in his bardic name) was probably added by him in order to add lustre to his somewhat plebeian name. He hit upon ' Essyllt' under the mistaken impression that 'Essyllwg' was the ancient name for Glamorgan (see Lloyd, A History of Wales, 282). Watcyn Wyn (loc. cit.) says that he was married when he was about 21 years of age
DAVIES, TREVOR OWEN (1895 - 1966), minister (Presb.) and principal of Trefeca College Born 20 November 1895 at Cae Adda, Llanwrin, Denbighshire, son of Owen Gruffydd Owen and Mary Winifred Davies of Cae Adda. His father was a brother of Richard Owen, Mynydd Ednyfed (father of Dame Margaret Lloyd George, see Lloyd George family below). He was educated at the village school, Machynlleth county school, University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated in the classics), and Christ
DAVIES, WALTER (Gwallter Mechain; 1761 - 1849), cleric, poet, antiquary, and literary critic there; one of his curates, Morgan Lloyd, published in 1830 a volume of sermons which was translated into English by Thomas Jones of Creaton (1752 - 1845). He received the living of Llanwyddelan in 1803 and of Manafon in 1807 (both in Montgomeryshire); at Manafon he became friendly with John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri, 1770 - 1829) and the Vaughans of Penmaen Dyfi. In 1837 he was preferred to the living of
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1899 - 1968), botanist and grassland specialist department of grassland agronomy at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. He did not con- fine himself to experimental work, but made a survey of the grassland and waste lands of Wales which was published in A survey of the agricultural and waste lands of Wales in 1937, under the editorship of R.G. Stapledon and with the financial help of David Lloyd George. Between November 1936 and March 1938 he made a
DAVIES, WILLIAM (1756 - 1823), compiler of an unpublished history of Glamorgan among the Cringell MSS. He translated a few Welsh poems into English and Latin, and was a contributor to The Gentleman's Magazine and The Cambrian, the newspaper published in Swansea. [ See also under Isaac, David Lloyd.]
DAVIES, WILLIAM ANTHONY (1886 - 1962), journalist eisteddfod supporter and was made an hon. white-robed member of the Gorsedd of Bards in Pwllheli in 1955. He followed the missionary campaigns of Stephen and George Jeffreys in Wales and London. He was baptised in Llanelli and while he lived in London he worshipped at Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and did social work with the Salvation Army. He married (1) Margaret, daughter of William Trefor Davies, minister of

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