Edward Tegla Davies (1880 - 1967) was a (Wesleyan) Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales.
Tegla's works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes surreal humour, the novel Gŵr Pen y Bryn (1923), short stories and a series of essays. Among the latter is the collection Gyda'r Hwyr (1957) [1], including Y Bedd Hwnnw ("That Grave") recording a visit to the grave of the Blessed John Henry Newman 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, Daniel Owen, in her youth [2].
A Cabinet Office release in 2012[3] shows that he declined an OBE in the New Year Honours in 1963.
[edit] References
- ^ Davies, E. Tegla, Gyda'r Hwyr. Lerpwl, Gwasg y Brython. 1957.
- ^ op. cit. page 123.
- ^ http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/resources/document2012-01-24-075439.pdf
