Mary Davies (poet)

Mary Davies was born 17 October 1846, in Portmadoc (so spelt at the time), North Wales, where she resided for the whole of her life.

She was the eldest daughter of Captain Lewis Davies and his wife Jennet, who ran the Tregunter Arms, a public house in Portmadoc.

She was educated at a private school there, maintained by a daughter of the writer William Rees, better known by his bardic name Gwilym Hiraethog.

[1] After she had begun to win prizes locally for her poems and essays, Davies was admitted to the Gorsedd circle at the 1875 National Eisteddfod in Pwllheli.

[2] Mary Davies died unmarried in Porthmadog on 8 October 1882 and was buried at Soar, near Talsarnau.