D. Griffith Davies manuscripts

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  • Reference
    • GB 210 MSDGRDAV
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls004554011
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1887-1894
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English Welsh English, Welsh.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 volumes.

Scope and Content

Manuscripts of D. Griffith Davies, 1887-1894, comprising archaeological notes and heraldic notes and sketches.

Administrative / Biographical History

D. Griffith Davies (1845-1899), BA, of Bangor, Caernarvonshire, was an antiquarian and draper. He was educated at Friars School and Liverpool Institute and was awarded a BA at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1878. He took over his father's drapery business in Bangor in about 1881, retiring due to ill health in 1897. He was a local secretary in Caernarvonshire for the Cambrian Archaeological Association and contributed articles and illustrations to Archaeologia Cambrensis on Welsh antiquarian matters. He died in London on 9 April 1899.

Arrangement

Arranged according to NLW MSS reference numbers: NLW MSS 10428-10429.

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Acquisition Information

John A. A. Williams; Caernarvon; Donation (with NLW MS 14030D); August 1941.

Note

D. Griffith Davies (1845-1899), BA, of Bangor, Caernarvonshire, was an antiquarian and draper. He was educated at Friars School and Liverpool Institute and was awarded a BA at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1878. He took over his father's drapery business in Bangor in about 1881, retiring due to ill health in 1897. He was a local secretary in Caernarvonshire for the Cambrian Archaeological Association and contributed articles and illustrations to Archaeologia Cambrensis on Welsh antiquarian matters. He died in London on 9 April 1899.

The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Archaeologia Cambrensis, 5th series, 9 (1892); Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1897 List of Members (1897); Ancestry Library website (www.ancestrylibrary.com), viewed 8 September 2008; 'Local and District News', North Wales Chronicle, 15 April 1899, p. 5.

Title based on contents.

Archivist's Note

September 2008.

Compiled by Rhys Morgan Jones.

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