C Meudwy Davies (Meudwy) was a pupil of Joseph Parry at Aberystwyth.
He was choirmaster and organist and the Tabernacl Congregational Church. He conducted the Llanelli Harmonic Society, the Llanelli Temperance Choir and the Llanelli and District Band of Hope Union Choir. In 1903 he became the first Welshman to condust the National Temperance Choral Union of 5,000 voices at the Crsytal Palace, when his own composition 'The Fall of Bacchus' was performed.
In 1910 he returned from his duties as the musical adjudicator at the Grand National Eisteddfod of Australia.
He wrote the tune: Mae'r Iesu'n derbyn plant
(Caniedydd yr Ysgol Sul 1899)
Source:
Secret Sins: Sex, Violence & Society in Carmarthenshire 1870-1920
Russell Davies, UWP, 1996.