Edwin Davies (publisher)

Edwin Davies (March 1859 – February 1919) was a Welsh publisher and editor.

Born in Old Parr's Cottage, Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, his family later moved to Brecon, where he grew up.

On completing his elementary education, he began a seven-year apprenticeship to a printing and publishing business.

During this time he campaigned for the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales, which was achieved in 1914, and endorsed Liberal views.

[1] His publications include The Birds of Breconshire by E. C. Phillips (1899), A General History of the County of Radnor (from the manuscript notes of Jonathan Williams and other sources) (1905), and reissues of, 'The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan' by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1907), and A Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire by Richard Fenton (1903).