About E. Tegla Davies
Lived 1880 – 1967 (aged 86–87). E. Tegla Davies was a British writer, christian minister and priest.
Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) was a Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales.
His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes surreal humour, 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. shows that he declined an OBE in the New Year Honours in 1963.
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Who was E. Tegla Davies?
Welsh writer (1880–1967)
When was E. Tegla Davies born?
E. Tegla Davies was born in 1880 in Llandegla.
When did E. Tegla Davies die?
E. Tegla Davies died on 9 October 1967.
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E. Tegla Davies was a writer, christian minister and priest.
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E. Tegla Davies was British.
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