Edward Tegla Davies

Edward Tegla Davies (1880 - 1967) was a (Wesleyan) Methodist minister and a popular Welsh language writer, born at Llandegla-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, north Wales.

Tegla's works include a number of children's books which display his rich imagination and sometimes surreal humour, the novel Gŵr Pen y Bryn (1923), short stories and a series of essays. Among the latter is the collection Gyda'r Hwyr (1957) [1], including Y Bedd Hwnnw ("That Grave") recording a visit to the grave of the Blessed John Henry Newman at Rubery (Longbridge) near Birmingham, and Y Wraig o'r Wyddgrug ("The Woman from Mold"), in which he meets, in Manchester, someone who knew the Welsh novelist, Daniel Owen, in her youth [2].

References

  1. ^ Davies, E. Tegla, Gyda'r Hwyr. Lerpwl, Gwasg y Brython. 1957.
  2. ^ op. cit. page 123.