Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) was a Welsh Wesleyan

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minister and a popular

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writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north

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. His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes

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, the novel ''Gŵr Pen y Bryn'' (1923), short stories and a series of essays. Among the latter is the collection ''Gyda'r Hwyr'' (1957), including ''Y Bedd Hwnnw'' ("That Grave") recording a visit to the grave of the Blessed John Henry Newman at Rubery (Longbridge) near Birmingham, and ''Y Wraig o'r Wyddgrug'' ("The Woman from Mold"), in which he meets, in Manchester, someone who knew the Welsh novelist, Daniel Owen, in her youth. A

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release in 2012Award list
cabinetoffice.gov.uk shows that he declined an OBE in the New Year Honours in 1963.

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1880 births 1967 deaths Welsh children's writers Welsh-language writers 20th-century Welsh writers 20th-century Welsh Methodist ministers {{UK-Christian-clergy-stub