Myriel Irfona Davies

Myriel Irfona Davies (5 March 1920 – 20 December 2000) was a Welsh peace activist. After an early career as a telephone operator, she joined the United Nations Association – UK during the 1956 Suez Crisis, later serving as their deputy director and London regional secretary until 1988.

Biography Myriel Irfona Davies was born on 5 March 1920 in Swansea to Sarah Jane (née Jones) and Congregational minister David Morgan, and educated at Whitland Grammar School (now Ysgol Dyffryn Taf School). During her early career, she was a telephone operator, working for the General Post Office in Carmarthen and Shrewsbury, the latter where she worked as chief telephonist until her marriage to journalist and socialist Max Davies in 1952, and later at the London location of the Selfridges department store. Davies, who was known to be "a Christian of conviction", became a deacon in 1968, served as secretary of Radnor Walk Independent Church, Chelsea, London, in 1982 until her death, and served as president of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1994. Among her travels were a visit to South Africa months after the end of apartheid and personal observations of malnutrition in Bangladesh and poverty in Greece. She was made an honorary member of Gorsedd Cymru in 1983.

Davies died on 20 December 2000. She was cremated and interred in Gibeon Chapel Cemetery, Bancyfelin.