Mary Davies

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Mary Davies (February 27, 1855 - June 22, 1930) was a Welsh singer and the first President of the Welsh Folk Song Society.

In 1873, she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, and in the same year she made her professional debut. The wife of journalist William Cadwaladr Davies, she was principal soprano vocalist at the London Ballad Concerts, and at the National Eisteddfod of 1906, she co-founded the Welsh Folk Song Society.

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