John Cadvan Davies

John Cadvan Davies (1846–1923) was a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and a Welsh poet, who served as Archdruid.

[1] Cadvan was born on a small farm, Yr Allt, in the village of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire (now Powys), on 1 October 1846, as the son of David and Jane Davies.

[1] He joined the Wesleyan ministry in 1871 and worked in most of the North Wales circuits and in Liverpool.

Others can be found in the publication Llyfr Emynau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleaidd of 1927.

"Heroic" verses of his earned him prizes – at a national eisteddfod in Liverpool in 1884, in Caernarvon in 1886, and in London in 1887.