Saunders Lewis was a Welsh political activist, poet, dramatist, historian and literary critic. He was a prominent Welsh nationalist and one of the founders of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru, later known as Plaid Cymru. Lewis is usually acknowledged as one of the most prominent figures of 20th century Welsh-language literature. In 1970, Lewis was nominated for a Nobel Prize in Literature. Lewis was voted the tenth greatest Welsh hero in the '100 Welsh Heroes' poll, released on St. David's Day 2004.
James (Jeremiah) Griffiths was a Welsh Labour Party politician, trade union leader and the first Secretary of State for Wales.
The River Aeron is a small river in Ceredigion, Wales, that flows into Cardigan Bay at Aberaeron. It is also referred to on some older maps as the River Ayron.
Benjamin Davies or Ben Davies may refer to:
Professor Thomas Gwynn Jones C.B.E., more widely known as T. Gwynn Jones, was a leading Welsh poet, scholar, literary critic, novelist, translator, and journalist who did important work in Welsh literature, Welsh education, and the study of Welsh folk tales in the first half of the twentieth century. He was also an accomplished translator into Welsh of works from English, German, Greek, and Irish.
Thomas Evan Nicholas, who used the bardic name "Niclas y Glais", was a Welsh language poet, preacher, radical, and champion of the disadvantaged of society.
Griffith Wynne Griffith was a Welsh Presbyterian minister, who became one of the leaders of the denomination. He was also editor of two journals, a member of the committee for a new translation of the Bible into Welsh and a member of the Council and Court of Governors of University College, Bangor. He also wrote and translated many hymns.
John Ellis Meredith (1904–1981) was a Welsh Presbyterian minister and writer. He was the first Welshman to become president of the National Union of Students.
David James Davies (1893–1956), known as D. J. Davies, was a Welsh economist, industrialist, prize winning essayist, author, political activist, pilot, and an internationalist. Davies was a world traveller before returning home to Wales.
Huw Robert Jones, known as H. R. Jones, was a Welsh nationalist politician.
Charles Davies was a Welsh Baptist minister. His parents were Daniel and Margaret Davies of Llwynhendy. After completing his education at the Graig Academy grammar school in Swansea, he moved to study at the Baptist College, Llangollen. Following his ordination in 1870 he took charge of Penuel, Bangor. In 1877 he moved to Everton Village, Liverpool, before returning to Wales in 1888 to follow Nathaniel Thomas as minister of Tabernacle Chapel, Cardiff.
The Reverend John Davies was a Welsh Congregational Minister, writer, linguist and poet. One source has Davies' date of death listed as the 10th of December, 1884, separately noting that it was his funeral service that was conducted on the 16th of December, 1884.
David Joshua Davies (1877–1945) was a Welsh dramatist. His parents were John and Mary Davies. He began his career as an apprentice in an ironmonger's store in Swansea, but went on to earn his living as a shopkeeper, managing the Co-operative store in Llanarth for a while, and later a shop and the post office in Pont-rhyd-y-groes.
David Stephen Davies was a Welsh writer, preacher, and emigrant. He was born in the Plas-Marl area of Swansea. His father was minister John Davies, of Mynydd-bach, Llangyfelach. Following the death of his father in 1854, he ended his schooling, and moved to Aberdare to work as an engine-driver. During a strike in 1857 he decided to emigrate to the United States, where he began preaching in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He attended theological training courses at Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, and the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny. In 1862 he was ordained minister of Emmet and Ixonia.
Edward Davies was an American minister, author, and publisher of the Welsh Congregational magazine, the Cenhadwr. He was a pastor of Congregational, Peniel, and Bethel churches in the state of New York.
John Davies was a Welsh farmer and poet. He was born in the Cerrigydrudion area of Denbighshire. He was educated at the school in Pentre-llyn-cymer, and then at Cerrigydrudion, where he was taught by his cousin Huw Huws. Completing his education, he returned to farm his parents' farm, Creigiau'r Bleiddiau. He remained there until his mother's death, when he moved, and for a period worked as a bailiff for C. S. Mainwaring of Llaethwryd, Cerrigydrudion. On marrying, he then moved to Shotton Farm, Flintshire, but following the death of his wife and their son there, he married again and moved to a small farm near Denbigh. Unfortunately, when his daughter Alwen died in 1891, age 17, he was much affected, and his own health rapidly deteriorated.
Lewis Davies was a Welsh writer and schoolmaster. He was from the Hirwaun area of Aberdare, Glamorgan, where his father worked as a refiner at Crawshay Ironworks. He attended Penderyn Elementary School and, when old enough, became a pupil teacher before winning a scholarship to Bangor Normal College, which he attended from 1881 to 1882. When he returned to Hirwaun, he took up the position of headmaster of the local school, and he then became headmaster of Cymmer School in the Afan Valley, remaining there until he retired in 1926.
Moses Davies was a Welsh musician and composer.
Rhisiart Morgan Davies was a Welsh physicist. He was born in Corris, Gwynedd, and attended schools in Machynlleth and Dolgellau before, in 1921, winning a scholarship to study physics at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. After graduating first-class honours in physics in 1924, he was appointed to the research staff team in H.M. Signals School in Portsmouth, but did not remain in the position for long, instead returning to Aberystwyth to work, initially, as an assistant lecturer in the physics department, before being appointed a lecturer in 1928. Whilst there he worked on a D.Sc. (Wales) degree for important work on the measurement of dielectric and elastic constants under dynamic conditions, which he completed in 1937.
Ithel Davies was a Welsh political activist and barrister.
