Fonds GB 0210 PADIES - Padarn Davies Papers,

John Davies (John Padarn, or Paternus, Gildas Davies, fl. 1849-1874) was a Roman Catholic priest and teacher. He was ordained in Rome in 1852 for the diocese of Newport and Menevia (St Davids), returning to Britain in 1853, staying until 1855 at the Catholic St Peters College, Prior Park, Bath, where he had previous connections. By 1857, he was parish priest of St Michaels, Brecon. Relations with his bishop appear to have been strained, and a dispute seems to have run to litigation c.1864. Between 1863 and 1874, he returned to the Aberystwyth district, where he had been in the 1840s. David Bernard Davies (1833-c.1903), his brother, was also a priest, studying at Douai, Louvain and Trinity College Dublin; from 1862 he was a clergyman in the Church of England, as curate in Llantarnam and Newport, Monmouthshire, 1873-1875, and Braunton and Heanton-Punchardon, Devon, 1877-1884, as rector of Fisherton-Delamere, Wiltshire, 1884-1892, and chaplain of Gordon Boys' Home, Woking, 1899. The Rev. John Morgan (fl. 1894-1918) was a nephew of the Rev. D. B. Davies; his father was Edward Morgan of Meolcerni, Llanfihangel Genau'r-glyn, Cardiganshire (fl. 1868-1898).