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Welsh Anglican priest

Alun Radcliffe Davies (6 May 1923 – 8 June 2003) was a Welsh Anglican priest in the last third of the twentieth century.

Davies was born on 6 May 1923 into an ecclesiastical family: his father was the Revd Canon Rhys Hughes Davies. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School, University College, Cardiff, Keble College, Oxford and St. Michael's College, Llandaff. After a curacy in Roath he was a Lecturer at St. Michael's College, Llandaff then Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Wales. He was a Chaplain in the RNR until 1960 when he became Vicar of Ystrad Mynach. He was Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral from 1969 to 1971; Archdeacon of Llandaff from 1971 to 1977; a Residentiary Canon of Llandaff Cathedral from 1975 to 1977; Dean of Llandaff from 1977 to 1993; and Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan from 1994 until his death on 8 June 2003.

He had two sons and a daughter with his wife Winifred who died in 1999.

References

^ Davies, Very Rev. Alun Radcliffe. Oxford University Press/A & C Black/Bloomsbury Publishing. December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12955. ISBN 978-0-1995-4089-1. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
^ "The Very Rev Alun Davies". The Daily Telegraph. 19 June 2003. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967-68 p311: London, OUP, 1967.
"The National Library of Wales". The Journal of Welsh Religious History. 4: 63. 2004.
Crockford's Clerical Directory (ibid) p.302.
"The Bells". Archived from the original on 1 October 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
The Very Rev Alun Davies. The Times (London, England), 10 June 2003; pg. 35; Issue 67785.

Church of England titles
Preceded byJohn Williams	Archdeacon of Llandaff 1971–1977	Succeeded byLewis Clarke
Preceded byJohn Williams	Dean of Llandaff 1977–1993	Succeeded byJohn Rogers

v t e Archdeacons of Llandaff
Urban Ralph William Maurice Ralph of Newcastle Thomas Nicholas Simon of Radnor Robert de Briouze Henry de Cranborne Wager Robert Alexander de Monmouth Richard de Halton Thomas de Burgherssh John de Coventry Henry Despenser Robert de Walsham Thomas Banastre of Eltisley Thomas de Southam Richard Boule Thomas de Alston John de Sulthorn Robert de la More Thomas Orewelle Robert Cole John Stradling Lewis Byford John Quarre John Smith Giles Langley Cadwalader Hughes John Clegge Robert Robotham Francis Davies Edward Gamage Thomas Gamage George Bull John Evans John Fulham William Adams John Porter John Probyn Thomas Williams James Colquhoun Campbell Henry Lynch Blosse John Griffiths Frederic Edmondes James Buckley David Davies John James Richard Jones Gwynno James Thomas Hughes John Williams Alun Davies Lewis Clarke Albert Lewis David Lee Bill Thomas Peggy Jackson Rhod Green

v t e Deans of Llandaff
John Probyn William Bruce Knight William Conybeare Thomas Williams Henry Lynch Blosse Charles Vaughan William Davey Charles Griffith Frederick Worsley Garfield Williams David Jones Glyn Simon Eryl Thomas Gordon Phillips John Williams Alun Davies John Rogers John Lewis Janet Henderson Gerwyn Capon

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