David James Davies, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David James Davies

Welsh economist, industrialist, writer, activist and pilot

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1893

Place of Birth: Carmel, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 11-Oct-1956

Profession: writer, economist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

David James Davies (1893–1956), known as D.
J.
Davies, was a Welsh economist, industrialist, prize winning essayist, author, political activist, pilot, and an internationalist.
Davies was a world traveller before returning home to Wales. Initially a founding member of the Welsh Labour Party in the Ammanford district, in 1925 he left Labour becoming a founding member of Plaid Cymru, the nationalist party of Wales.According to the historian John Davies, it was D.
J.
Davies' ideas which were more influential in shaping long-term Plaid Cymru ideology following the Second World War, and Davies was as "equally [a] significant figure" as Saunders Lewis in Welsh nationalism history, but it was Lewis' "brilliance and charismatic appeal" which was firmly associated with Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru of the 1930s.