Edward Tegla Davies (1880–1967) was a Welsh

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minister and a popular

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writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl,

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, north

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. His works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes

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, 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

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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,

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, in her youth. A

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release in 2012http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20120404175744/http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/document2012%2D01%2D24%2D075439.pdf shows that he declined an OBE in the

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in 1963.

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1880 births 1967 deaths Welsh children's writers Welsh-language writers 20th-century Welsh writers Welsh Methodist ministers 20th-century Methodist ministers 20th-century Welsh clergy {{Christian-bio-stub