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| first_name = Thomas Witton

| name = Davies

| honorific_suffix = BA (Lond.) PhD (Leipzig) Th.D DD (Geneva)

| image = File:Davies,_Thomas_Witton.jpg

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DAVIES , THOMAS WITTON ( 1851 - 1923 ), Baptist minister, and Semitic scholar ; <br />b. 28 Feb. 1851 at Nant-y-glo, Mon. , of illiterate but pious parents. The family moved to Witton Park , co. Durham (whence he took his middle name); his elementary schooling there was the only education afforded him before he was over 21. In 1872 he entered the Baptist College at Pontypool ; there, in addition to pursuing the prescribed courses, he diligently read Coleridge and Carlyle , whose influence upon him throughout his life was very deep. From Pontypool he went in 1879 to Regent's Park and University Colleges in London , graduating in 1876 — James Martineau deeply influenced him in these years. <br />From 1879 to Dec. 1880 he was pastor of High Street church at Merthyr Tydfil , and from 1881 till 1891 classical and Hebrew tutor at Haverfordwest Baptist College . He was principal of the Baptist College at Nottingham from 1891 till 1898 , acting also as lecturer in Arabic and Syriac in University College , Nottingham ; several terms during these years were spent at German universities — a whole year at Leipzig under Buhl , Socin , and Dalman , and a term under Noldeke at Strasbourg ; he also studied Assyrian under Sayce . He moved to Bangor in 1898 , first as Hebrew tutor at Bangor Baptist College ( 1898-1905 ) and afterwards ( 1905-21 ) as professor of Hebrew at the University College of North Wales . His students at Bangor held him in very high regard, in no way diminished by his many eccentricities.<br />He was a doctor of Leipzig and Jena universities, and an honorary doctor of Geneva and Durham . <br />He was twice m.: (1) 1880 , to Mary Anne Moore , who d. in 1910 , leaving one daughter, and (2) 1911 , to Hilda Mabel Everett , by whom he had a son and a daughter. He d. 12 May 1923 . <br /><br />Born Nantyglo, Monmouthshire; died Bangor. Held academic posts at Haverfordwest, Nottingham and Bangor, being Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature at the University College of North Wales. Numerous publications on theological topics. Honorary degrees from Geneva and Durham. (His parents were illiterate and he received a primary education but then no further education until he was 21).<br />