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Richard Davies (died 1708)
Richard Davies may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (1833–1877), poet in the Welsh language * Richard Davies (American actor) (1915–1994), American film actor * Richard Davies (Australian actor) * Richard Davies (Welsh actor) (1926–2015), Welsh actor * Richard Davies (writer) (born 1950), English writer and actor * Richard Davies (Tru Calling), fictional TV character * Richard Davies (musician) (born 1964), Australian singer-songwriter * Richard Michael Davies, better known as Dik Mik, synthesizer player for Hawkwind * Rick Davies (musician), multi-instrumentalist and member of Amoeba * Rick Davies (Richard Davies, born 1944), British musician, vocalist for Supertramp * Ritchie Davies (born 1971), Welsh professional darts player Sports * Richard Davies (cricketer) (born 1954), former English cricketer * Richard Davies (footballer) (born 1990), footballer playing for Barrow AFC * Rick Davies (footballer) (born 1952), Australian rules footbal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (Mynyddog)
Richard Davies (Mynyddog) (10 January 1833 – 14 July 1877) was a popular Welsh language, Welsh-language poet, singer, and Eisteddfod conductor. The original source of the name Mynyddog is from Newydd Fynyddog, a hill near his home. Another submission is the name comes from Mynyddog Mwynfawr, a character in Gododdin, an early Welsh poem. Use of an adopted Welsh-language pseudonym or bardic name (''ffug enw'') is common among Welsh poets. Birth and upbringing He was born at Dôl Lydan, Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, in a farmhouse called "Y Fron". His father, Daniel Davies, was deacon and precentor in Hen Gapel, while his mother, Jane, belonged to a bookish family. He was christened by John Roberts (1767–1834). When he was two years old, his parents moved to Fron in the same parish. He spent his early days as a farmer and shepherd, and was educated at the chapel school kept by the younger John Roberts (1804–1884). His open-air life in rural Wales among rural folk remained a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Davies
Richard Allan Davies (January 21, 1936 – February 25, 2012) was an American basketball player. He played for the gold medal-winning United States men's national basketball team at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He is also the youngest brother of Bob Davies, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1970. Davies was born and raised in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and attended John Harris High School. He then attended Gettysburg College and played freshman basketball for his brother, who was the coach at the time, before transferring to LSU Tigers men's basketball, Louisiana State University (LSU) where he lettered for two seasons. Standing at and weighing 176 pounds (80 kg), Davies played the guard (basketball), guard position. He was captain (sports), captain of LSU for one season, and in 1960 was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the 11th round of the 1960 NBA draft, NBA draft. Despite his late-round selection, Davies opted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard T
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Frankish language, Old Frankish and is a Compound (linguistics), compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick (nickname), Dick", "Dickon", "Dickie (name), Dickie", "Rich (given name), Rich", "Rick (given name), Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", "Ricky (given name), Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Davies (priest)
Richard Paul Davies (born 15 March 1973) is the current Archdeacon of Surrey and former Archdeacon of Bangor. Davies was educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter, the University of Oxford and Ripon College, Cuddesdon. He was ordained in 1997 in St Davids Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, where he served his title as a minor canon before incumbencies at Solva in Pembrokeshire and Burry Port in Carmarthenshire. He was appointed on 23 September 2011 and collated and installed as Archdeacon of Bangor and Anglesey in Bangor Cathedral on 19 February 2012. At the time of his installation (aged 38), Davies was the youngest archdeacon in Wales and England. Davies was collated Archdeacon of Surrey, in the English Diocese of Guildford __NOTOC__ The Diocese of Guildford is a Church of England diocese covering eight and half of the eleven districts in Surrey, much of north-east Hampshire and a parish in Greater London. The cathedral is Guildford Cathedral and the bishop is th ..., on 10 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hutton Davies
Major General Richard Hutton Davies, (14 August 1861 – 9 May 1918) was an officer of the New Zealand Military Forces during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the first New Zealander to command an independent force overseas and one of the most senior New Zealand officers during the First World War. Born in London, he emigrated to New Zealand after leaving school, where he worked as a surveyor. He joined a volunteer militia unit in 1893, and went to South Africa as an officer with the first New Zealand contingent sent to the Boer War in 1899. He later commanded the third, fourth and eighth contingents, becoming the first New Zealand officer to command an independent unit on active service overseas. Following his return to New Zealand, he became inspector-general of the New Zealand Military Forces, and in 1909 was attached to a British Army brigade to gain staff experience. This led to him being offered command of 6th Brigade, a regular infantry brigade of Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gareth Davies
Richard Gareth Davies (born 20 June 1920) is a British entomologist and one-time professor of entomology at Imperial College, at that time a constituent college of the federal University of London. Publications In 1925, Augustus Daniel Imms Augustus Daniel Imms FRS (24 August 1880, in Moseley, Worcestershire – 3 April 1949 in Tipton St. John near Sidmouth, Devon) was an English educator, research administrator and entomologist. An influential textbook of entomology that he firs ... published the first edition of ''A General Textbook of Entomology''. Its seventh edition appeared in 1948, the year before his death. By then it had become one of the standard entomological textbooks of its day; in 1958 it was described as having been "the standard reference work for over 30 years". In 1942, Imms published a shorter, simpler version, ''Outlines of Entomology''. Further editions of both books were published up to the time of Imms' death in 1949, the main textbook reaching the 7 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Bell Davies
Vice Admiral Richard Bell Davies (19 May 1886 – 26 February 1966), also known as Richard Bell-Davies, was a senior Royal Navy commander, naval aviator, and a First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early life and career Born in Kensington, London, Davies was orphaned by the age of five and was brought up by an uncle, a doctor. He attended Bradfield College in Berkshire between September 1899 and April 1901. Davies enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1901 joining , and on 15 September 1902 was posted as a naval cadet to the protected cruiser HMS ''Diana'', serving with the Mediterranean Fleet. In 1910 he took private flying lessons, and in 1913 he was accepted into the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and was appointed a squadron commander. First World War Distinguished Service Order In the early days of the war, Davies and Richard Peirse carried out a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (trade Unionist)
W. Richard Davies (1862 – February 1938) was a Welsh trade unionist and political activist. The president of one union, and general secretary of another, he also served as a city councillor and contested numerous Parliamentary elections. Biography Born in South Wales, Davies worked as a shop assistant in Cardiff for a couple of years, then became a journalist, focusing on reporting the labour movement. By 1897, he was an organiser for the Navvies, Bricklayers' Labourers and General Labourers' Union based at Barry. He was imprisoned for six weeks after being convicted of intimidating a strikebreaker. He retained the backing of the union, and after his release, was elected as its president. In 1898, Davies moved to Leicester, to become the Midland Counties organiser of the Navvies' Union. However, the union's general secretary, John Ward, refused to allow him to see the union's books. Davies took Ward to court, but Ward did not attend, and the union's executive committee expelle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (physician)
Richard Davies M.D. (died 1761) was an English physician. Life Davies was a native of Shropshire. On 19 August 1726 he entered Queens' College, Cambridge as a pensioner, where his relation, John Davies was president. There he became a fellow, proceeding B.A. in 1730, M.A. in 1734, and M.D. in 1748. Davies practised as a physician at Shrewsbury, and then at Bath, Somerset, where he died at the beginning of 1762. Elected a fellow of the Royal Society on 8 June 1738, he withdrew two years later. His will, bearing date 11 December 1743, was proved on 6 March 1762 by his widow, Jane. Works Davies was the author of: * ''The General State of Education in the Universities: with a particular view to the philosophic and medical education: set forth in an epistle to … Doctor Hales, …, being introductory to essays on the blood'', Bath, 1759. Anonymous ''Observations'' in reply appeared the same year. * ''To promote the experimental Analysis of the Human Blood. Essay the first'' (no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (MP)
Richard Davies (29 November 1818 – 27 October 1896) was a Welsh businessman and ship-owner and nonconformist Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1886. Davies was born at Llangefni, Anglesey, the son of Richard Davies, a merchant of Llangefni, and his wife Anne Jones of Coed Hywel. He was educated at Llangefni national school. When his father set up subsidiary businesses under the management of his three sons, Richard Davies was assigned to the old ferry-terminal of Porthaethwy, which was reconstituted as Menai Bridge. This timber importing business developed so successfully that all the family became involved and the business developed into large-scale ship-owning which generated considerable wealth, based to a large extent on guano. His brother, Robert, was renowned as a philanthropist. Davies became a notable figure in politics as a Welsh radical nonconformist. He stood as Liberal candidate for Caernarvon at the 1852 general election but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (doctor)
Richard Andrew Davies (born 1959) is a British-born New Zealand doctor. He is the viceregal consort of New Zealand as the husband of Dame Cindy Kiro, who has been the governor-general since 21 October 2021. Davies previously served as a member of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council from 2005 to 2007, and represented the Falkland Islands at the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonization meetings in 2006 and 2007. Early life and family Davies was born in Cannock, Staffordshire, England, in 1959, the son of Peter Richard Davies and Margaret "Tiggy" Davies (née Allen). His father was ordained at Lichfield Cathedral in 1958, and served as curate at St Chad's, Cannock, for three years. The family moved to Kenya where Peter Davies taught and was chaplain at the Prince of Wales (later Nairobi) School for 13 years. Richard Davies was educated at Marlborough College as a boarder in C3 House from 1972 to 1977, and the family returned permanently to Britain in 1974 when Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Davies (courtier)
Sir Richard Harries Davies (28 June 1916 – 29 January 1995) was a member of the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh of the United Kingdom."Davies, Sir Richard Harries" ''Who Was Who'' (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2007). Retrieved 15 June 2019. Education Davies was educated at Porth County School, and Cardiff Technical School. He graduated with a , and was a |
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