Tag: Welsh Public Life

• David Davies, 1st Baron Davies of Llandinam (1880–1944)

  

  The Inheritance of Duty and the Pursuit of Peace Few figures in modern Welsh public life better illustrate the moral tension between inherited wealth and public obligation than David Davies, 1st Baron Davies of Llandinam. Born into one of the most powerful industrial families in Wales, he belonged to a generation that inherited the material…

  Antony David Davies

  Politics

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• Trevor Owen Davies (1895–1966)

  

  A Farm Boy at Christ Church, Oxford, A Welsh Scholar in Public Life In 1920s Oxford, the halls of Christ Church were filled with the sons of the English landed elite. Among them sat an unlikely figure: a farm labourer from the Dyfi Valley who had traded his plough for Augustine. Trevor Owen Davies was…

  Antony David Davies

  Religion

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