John Daniel Davies (12 January 1874 – 9 April 1948) was a Welsh editor and author. He was from the Ponciau area of

Denbighshire Denbighshire ( ; cy, Sir Ddinbych; ) is a county in the north-east of Wales. Its borders differ from the historic county of the same name. This part of Wales contains the country's oldest known evidence of habitation – Pontnewydd (Bontnewy ...

. He began his career as an apprentice of David Jones, printer, of Rhosymedre. He then worked for a while with Richard Mills who printed the ''Rhos Herald''. Sometime around 1900 he married, and moved to live in the

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area, where in 1906 he started the periodical ''Y Rhedegydd''. For many years he edited ''Yr Ymwelydd'', the Scottish Baptist periodical. He died in April 1948, and was buried in Bethesda cemetery,

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1874 births 1948 deaths People from Denbighshire Welsh writers Welsh newspaper editors {{wales-writer-stub