Born 14 September 1879, the fourth child and third son of Peter Davies, farmer, and Elizabeth, his wife. He was educated at Llangeitho and Tregaron County School, Cardiganshire and took his medical training at the London Hospital, where he won scholarships in anatomy and physiology 1906 and in patho

Served his apprenticeship to Dr Redwood, of Rhymney, and finished his professional training at Guy's Hospital. He settled in Aberdare in 1845, when the population of the town only numbered some 7000 persons, but had increased sevenfold at the time of his death. In 1863 he was appointed Medical Offi