Myriel Davies

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Myriel Davies
OBE
Born
Myriel Irfona Morgan

(1920-03-05)5 March 1920
Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales
Died20 December 2000(2000-12-20) (aged 80)
OccupationPeace activist
EmployerUnited Nations Association – UK
Spouse
Max Davies
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(m. 1952)​

Myriel Irfona Davies

OBE (5 March 1920 – 20 December 2000) was a Welsh peace activist. After an early career as a telephone operator, she joined the United Nations Association – UK during the 1956 Suez Crisis
, later serving as their deputy director and London regional secretary until 1988.

Biography

Myriel Irfona Davies was born on 5 March 1920 in

Congregational minister David Morgan, and educated at Whitland Grammar School (now Ysgol Dyffryn Taf School).[1] During her early career, she was a telephone operator, working for the General Post Office in Carmarthen and Shrewsbury, the latter where she worked as chief telephonist until her marriage to journalist and socialist Max Davies in 1952, and later at the London location of the Selfridges department store.[1]

Davies became part of the United Nations Association – UK in 1956 while the Suez Crisis was taking place.[1] Subsequently, she became their London chapter's campaigns officer and regional secretary, and the nationwide association's deputy director, holding the latter two positions until 1988.[1][2] Davies, who was known to be "a Christian of conviction", became a deacon in 1968, served as secretary of Radnor Walk Independent Church, Chelsea, London, in 1982 until her death, and served as president of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1994.[1]

Davies believed in

poverty in Greece.[1]

Davies was made a

Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000.[1]

From 1978, Davies lived in St Clears.[5] She was fluent in Welsh.[2] Her elder brother Herbert Myrddin Morgan was a chemist based in St Clears.[5][1]

Davies died on 20 December 2000.[1] She was cremated and interred in Gibeon Chapel Cemetery, Bancyfelin.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Jones, T. Hefin. "DAVIES, MYRIEL IRFONA (1920 - 2000), campaigner for the United Nations". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Myriel Davies OBE" (PDF). New World. United Nations Association – UK. January 2006. p. 7. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  3. JSTOR 45353055
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  4. ^ "No. 47418". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1977. p. 14.
  5. ^ a b "M.B.E." Carmarthen Journal. 6 January 1978. p. 1. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
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