Alun Davies (priest)
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.[4] After a curacy in Roath he was a Lecturer at St. Michael's College, Llandaff then Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales.[5] He was a Chaplain in the RNR until 1960 when he became Vicar of Ystrad Mynach.[6] 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[7] from 1977 to 1993; and Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1994 until his death on 8 June 2003.[8]
References
- ^ Oxford Index
- ^ Telegraph obituary
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 p311: London, OUP, 1967
- ^ ‘DAVIES, Very Rev. Alun Radcliffe’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 30 Sept 2015
- ^ National Library of Wales
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid) p302
- ^ Llanmon
- ^ The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 10, 2003; pg. 35; Issue 67785
- 1923 births
- People from Cowbridge
- People educated at Cowbridge Grammar School
- People educated at St. Michael's College, Llandaff
- Alumni of Cardiff University
- Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of Wales
- Archdeacons of Llandaff
- Deans of Llandaff
- 2003 deaths
- Welsh people stubs
- British Christian clergy stubs