[2] Her younger sister Dilys Lloyd Davies was a leading advocate for the education of women in Wales.

[4] Before attending the Royal Academy of Music she studied singing with Henry Brinley Richards, Megan Watts Hughes and Sarah Edith Wynne.

She joined the London Welsh Choral Union, then under the direction of the composer John Thomas, which in 1873 awarded her a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where she was a pupil of Alberto Randegger.

In 1880 she sang in the first complete performance in England of Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the Hallé Concerts, Manchester.

[5] In 1888 she married William Cadwaladr Davies, a journalist and the first registrar of the University College of North Wales, Bangor.