Talk:Walford Davies

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I'm not sure we can call him Welsh - he was born in England (just) and the Grove dictionary calls him English. I'm going to play it safe, though (he did spend a lot of time in Wales after all, and did a lot for music there), and change it to British rather than English. --Camembert

He certainly wasn't Welsh by birth — Oswestry is in England and there's no mention of any Welsh parentage in the DNB or Grove. Wilus

[edit] Surname

A goodgle search on

"Walford Davies" OR "Henry Davies"

seems to indicate his surname is "Walford Davies" , tho the article calls him Davies. In the absence of evidence for Davies as surname, the references to him as "Davies" should be changed to "Walford Davies".
--Jerzy•t 23:51, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Grove lists him under D for Davies. It's clear from the article that Walford was never part of his surname, as it was his grandmother's maiden name. His full legal name was Henry Walford Davies, but he preferred to be known as plain Walford Davies. JackofOz 02:58, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Not just sacred music

I think he also wrote a suite of 8 nursery rhymes (including Miller's daughter, four and twenty tailors, and a prayer "Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, bless the bed that I lie on..." which, with the exception of the prayer, are not religious - but are a great sing.