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7 unusual facts about David Davies


David Davies, 1st Baron Davies

From 1906 to 1929, he was the Liberal Member of Parliament for the Montgomeryshire constituency, and an active supporter of the League of Nations.

David Davies, 3rd Baron Davies

David Davies, 3rd Baron Davies DL (b. 2 October 1940), is a British peer and engineer.

James Stuart MacDonald

Returning to Australia, MacDonald took up art study, publishing works on Frederick McCubbin, Penleigh Boyd, David Davies and George Lambert.

Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History

1986 David Davies, "Pepys and the Admiralty Commission of 1679-84," in Historical Research, vol.

Llandinam

Llandinam was the family home of David Davies who was responsible for much of the development of the South Wales Valleys and the export of coal in the 19th century.

At the east end of the bridge there is a statue of David Davies.

Tregynon

The nearby country house is Gregynog Hall, which dates from 1840; in the 19th century it was the seat of the Blayney (Blaenau, originally) Hanbury-Tracy families and became the centre of Welsh cultural life in the 20th century under Miss Margaret and Miss Gwendoline Davies, who had inherited the fortune of their grandfather David Davies of Llandinam.


1933 in Wales

June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.

Amanda Davies

Davies was born on 24 March 1980 in Manchester and she is the daughter of sports journalist and sports administrator David Davies, Amanda was educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Faria Alam

After doing some part-time modelling work, Alam took a job at The Football Association in July 2003 as personal assistant to executive director David Davies, based at the organisation’s headquarters in Soho Square, London.

Idris Davies

In February 2010 Davies' work was mentioned, by Conservative MP David Davies and Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams, in a Parliamentary debate concerning heath-care in Wales.


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Bank y Llong

On 1 June 1806 an agreement was entered into whereby John Jones, a London-Welsh surgeon and apothecary, of Gracechurch Street, London and Derry Ormond, Ceredigion, Thomas Morgan, an Aberystwyth solicitor and David Davies, of Machynlleth later of Aberystwyth, then of Castle Green House, Cardigan, entered into partnership to carry on for 14 years a banking business under the name Jones, Morgan & Davies.

Gwendoline Davies

Gwendoline Davies was born at Llandinam, her father Edward being the only son of David Davies, an industrialist and philanthropist.

Johnny Lovewisdom

Dr. David Davies of University College London, and Dr. Alexander Leaf of Harvard University, both gerontologists, visited Lovewisdom due to his many articles on the longevity of the Vilcabamban people.