Idris Davies

Idris Davies was a Welsh poet. He was born in Rhymney, in the historic county of Monmouthshire in South East Wales to Welsh-speaking parents, Evan Davies and his wife Elizabeth Ann. He and his young sister Dorothy (Doris) learnt English in the local school. He left school at the age of forteen and for the next seven years worked underground as a coal miner in a nearby pit. In 1925, he began to attend local evening classes. In the following year the 1926 United Kingdom general strike occurred, after which he became unemployed for four years. Davies returned to education in 1929 when he became a pupil-teacher. In the following year he enrolled in a teacher training course at Loughborough College in Leicestershire, England. From 1932 to 1947 he worked as a teacher in London. Later in 1947, he returned to the Rhymney Valley to teach at a junior school in New Tredegar. He taught there until 1951, when his abdominal cancer prevented him continuing. He died in 1953.

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