David Christopher Davies (missionary)

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "David Christopher Davies" missionary – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

David Christopher Davies, known as Christy Davies (1878–1958) was a Welsh missionary, and representative of the

. He attended a local Calfaria Baptist Church where his father was the church treasurer, and a deacon. The church pastor was T. Valentine Evans (father of Sir (David) Emrys Evans).

Christopher began his career helping in his family's grocery store. He then worked for a while as a tailor's apprentice in Ystalyfera, and was also baptised in a local Church. Completing his apprenticeship, he moved to work in

), a developing urban area, where concentrated on the new (Lingala speaking) arrivals of the Bangala tribe.

Returning to Wales in 1933 (on account of ill health) he continued to work, arranging summer schools. He later was stationed at the Aberystwyth Theological College, and then in the Cilgwyn area, Newcastle Emlyn.

In 1943 he retired, and he lived until his death at Mumbles.^[1]

References