Alun Davies (priest) explained

Alun Radcliffe Davies (6 May 1923 – 8 June 2003[1]) was a Welsh Anglican priest in the last third of the twentieth century.[2]

Davies was born on 6 May 1923 into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Revd Canon Rhys Hughes Davies.[3] He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School, University College, Cardiff, Keble College, Oxford and St. Michael's College, Llandaff.[1] After a curacy in Roath he was a Lecturer at St. Michael's College, Llandaff then Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales.[4] He was a Chaplain in the RNR until 1960 when he became Vicar of Ystrad Mynach.[5] He was Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral from 1969 to 1971; Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1971 to 1977; a Residentiary Canon of Llandaff Cathedral from 1975 to 1977; Dean of Llandaff[6] from 1977 to 1993; and Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1994 until his death on 8 June 2003.[7]

He had two sons and a daughter with his wife Winifred who died in 1999.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Davies, Very Rev. Alun Radcliffe. Who's Who. December 2007. 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12955. 978-0-1995-4089-1. Oxford University Press/A & C Black/Bloomsbury Publishing.
  2. News: The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Daily Telegraph. 19 June 2003. 23 December 2018.
  3. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  4. The National Library of Wales. The Journal of Welsh Religious History. 4. 2004. 63.
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid) p.302.
  6. Web site: The Bells. 30 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20151001075254/http://llandaff.llanmon.org.uk/modules/smartsection/print.php?itemid=7. 1 October 2015. dead. dmy-all.
  7. The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Times (London, England), 10 June 2003; pg. 35; Issue 67785.