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 Church, Oxford (where he took an honours degree in theology). He was awarded a B.Litt. degree for his thesis on ' The Augustinian doctrine of grace and free will '. He began preaching in his home chapel before graduating, was ordained in 1925, and served the ministry in Bethel, Cilfynydd, Glamorganshire (1925-26). He was appointed assistant lecturer in Trefeca College in 1926, and when the principal W.P. Jones died he served as principal of the college till he retired in 1964. He married in 1933 Olwen Jane, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Phillips, Merthyr Cynog, and they had one son.

T.O. Davies was a prominent man in his denomination and in the public life of Brecknockshire. He was chairman of the United Colleges Board of his Connexion and was elected Moderator of the Association in the East in 1964. He was a member of the standing joint committee and of the education committee of Breck., and was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1950. For some years he gave extramural lectures under the auspices of the University Colleges of Cardiff and Aberystwyth, and the University of Birmingham. He died, 10 April 1966, and was buried in Siloa cemetery, Merthyr Cynog.

Author

• Reverend Gomer Morgan Roberts, (1904 - 1993)

Sources

• Blwyddiadur y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 1967, 259-60
• information from his widow
• personal knowledge

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20751832

Published date: 2001

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