Alun Davies (priest)

Alun Radcliffe Davies (6 May 1923 – 8 June 2003[1]) was a Welsh Anglican priest in the last third of the twentieth century.[2]

Davies was born on 6 May 1923 into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Revd Canon Rhys Hughes Davies.[3] He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School, University College, Cardiff, Keble College, Oxford and St. Michael's College, Llandaff.[1] After a curacy in Roath he was a Lecturer at St. Michael's College, Llandaff then Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales.[4] He was a Chaplain in the RNR until 1960 when he became Vicar of Ystrad Mynach.[5] He was Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral from 1969 to 1971; Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1971 to 1977; a Residentiary Canon of Llandaff Cathedral from 1975 to 1977; Dean of Llandaff[6] from 1977 to 1993; and Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1994 until his death on 8 June 2003.[7]

He had a son and a daughter with his wife Winifred who died in 1999.[2]

References

1. Davies, Very Rev. Alun Radcliffe. Who's Who. Oxford University Press/A & C Black/Bloomsbury Publishing. December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12955. ISBN 978-0-1995-4089-1.
2. "The Very Rev Alun Davies". The Daily Telegraph. 19 June 2003. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 p311: London, OUP, 1967.
4. "The National Library of Wales". The Journal of Welsh Religious History. 4: 63. 2004.
5. Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid) p.302.
6. "The Bells". Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
7. The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Times (London, England), 10 June 2003; pg. 35; Issue 67785.