John Cadvan Davies

John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet, who served as Archdruid. He is better known in Wales by his bardic name, Cadfan (sometimes Cadvan).

Life and career Cadvan was born on a small farm, Yr Allt, in the village of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), on 1 October 1846, as the son of David and Jane Davies.

Cadvan's publications were Caneuon Cadvan, i (1878), Caneuon Cadvan, ii (1883), Caneuon Cadvan, iii (1893), Dydd Coroniad (1894), Caneuon Cadvan, iv with Dydd Coroniad as a supplement (1897), and Atgof a Phrofiad, an autobiography, which appeared in the Eurgrawn in 1917.

Family Cadvan married twice, first to Maggie Jones, daughter of Hugh Jones, Ty'n y pwll, and Dinas Mawddwy, on 23 August 1876, in the Independent Chapel. His second wife was Mary Ada Evans, daughter of Meschach Evans, Manchester House, Leeswood, whom he married on 15 August 1882 in the Wesleyan Chapel of Mold.

John Cadvan Davies died at Oswestry on 12 October 1923.