David Tegan Davies

David Tegfan Davies (27 February 1883 – 10 August 1968) was a Welsh Congregational minister. He was raised by his grandparents, Dafydd and Hannah Dafis of Abergwili, Carmarthenshire. On completing his education at the local school, he entered employment as a farm labourer at a farm in Rhyd-y-Rhaw, Peniel. Whilst there he began to attend services at Peniel Congregational Church, and it was there, in 1903, that he began to preach. Following a period studying at the Old College School in Carmarthen, he moved, in 1905, to attend classes at Bala-Bangor College. He was ordained minister in September 1908 at Seion, Pontypridd, and from there moved to Addoldy, Glynneath, where he was inducted in January 1911. An unusually high proportion of young people from Ammanford went on to academic research careers, a fact that several of them later credited to Davies' influence.

His writings include, Cyn Dringo'r Mynydd Du, O Ganol Shir Gâr, and Rhamantwr y De and Cyffro'r Hen Goffrau, which telling of old Carmarthenshire beliefs and rural amusements, reveal his vivid imagination. He was credited with twelve life-saving rescues. Davies was also a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

He died in 1968, and was buried in Gellimanwydd cemetery.