R. Rice Davies

R. Rice Davies was a Welsh author who died in 1882. He is best known for The Cambrian Sketch-Book: Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales, a collection of stories and sketches centered on Welsh history, customs, scenery, and legend.

Available records connected with his books also identify him as Robert Rice Davies, and contemporary title pages link him with other works including A Handy Book of the Land, Assessed, and Income Tax Laws and an essay on recreation grounds for Swansea. Those titles suggest a writer whose interests ranged beyond folklore into practical civic and public subjects.

In The Cambrian Sketch-Book, he writes with clear affection for Wales, blending storytelling with a sense of national memory and local character. The result is a book that offers not just legends and anecdotes, but a warm picture of Welsh identity in the late 19th century.