Antony David Davies

Antony David Davies FRSA FRAS AFRHistS is an independent social historian and biographer specialising in Welsh rural and community history, genealogy, biography, country-house society and Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

He has undertaken historical, genealogical and archival research since the late 1990s, drawing on census records, newspapers, parish and chapel records, family papers, photographs and oral testimony.

Raised partly at Stokesay Court in South Shropshire, Davies later spent formative years in mid Wales and regards Llandrindod Wells as his adopted hometown. After more than two decades in third-sector management and community organisations, he stepped back from management to concentrate increasingly on historical research and writing.

His books include Voices from the Uplands, Murder in the Marches, The House of Allcroft, William Jones of Glandwr Hall and Arthur Owen Jones. His writing has appeared in The Guardian and The Times.