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Alun Davies (priest)

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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

  1. ^ Oxford Index
  2. ^ Telegraph obituary
  3. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 p311: London, OUP, 1967
  4. ^ ‘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
  5. ^ National Library of Wales
  6. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid) p302
  7. ^ Llanmon
  8. ^ The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, June 10, 2003; pg. 35; Issue 67785
Church of England titles
Preceded by Archdeacon of Llandaff
1971–1977
Succeeded by
Dean of Llandaff
1977–1993
Succeeded by