Agnes Davies (née Morris, 30 September 1920 – 13 February 2011) was a Welsh snooker and billiards player. She was known for having a competitive playing career spanning 64 years, during which she won the Women's Professional Snooker Championship in 1949, and was runner-up in 1940, 1948, 1950, and 1980.
Biography Davies learned how to play billiards in her father's billiard hall in Saron, which he had set up using his compensation payment for pneumoconiosis caused by working as a coal miner. She first won the Welsh women's amateur championship in 1939, and won the following two years as well.
Davies, then still known as Agnes Morris, was runner up in the 1940 Women's Professional Snooker championship and the winner in 1949. She was married to Dick Davies (who died in 1996) in 1940, and took a break of some 30 years from competitive snooker. Returning to competition in the late 1970s, she won three tournaments before reaching another world championship final in 1980. In 1985 Davies was Voted Life President of the World Ladies' Billiards and Snooker Association (WLBSA).
In 1998 she qualified for the Ladies Welsh Open at Newport, Wales at the age of 77 – sixty years after winning as a 17-year-old and was ranked 46 in the Embassy Ladies World Rankings for 1997/98.
Until 1999, Davies played in the home international series for Wales. She also played in the Amman Valley league until 2001.
Davies died in 2011.
Legacy In 2012, Women's World Snooker held the Agnes Davies Memorial tournament, which was won by Jaique Ip.
In June 2025 a Purple Plaque in Davies' memory was unveiled at Saron's Hall in Saron. The plaque, organised by Purple Plaques, was intended to highlight remarkable women in Wales.
Titles and achievements
Outcome No. Year Championship Opponent Score Ref. Winner 1 1937 Welsh Ladies' Snooker Champion Winner 2 1938 Welsh Ladies' Snooker Champion Winner 3 1939 Welsh Ladies' Snooker Champion Winner 4 1939 Welsh Ladies' Billiards Champion Winner 5 1939 Women's Amateur Snooker Championship Runner-up 6 1940 Women's Professional Snooker Championship Ruth Harrison 2–11 Runner-up 7 1948 Women's Professional Snooker Championship Ruth Harrison 14–16 Winner 8 1949 Women's Professional Snooker Championship Thelma Carpenter 16–15 Runner-up 9 1950 Women's Professional Snooker Championship Thelma Carpenter 10–20 Winner 10 1977 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion Sue Foster 3–1 Winner 11 1978 Women's Amateur Snooker Championship Runner-up 12 1979 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion Maureen Baynton 0–3 Runner-up 13 1980 Guinness World Women's Snooker Championship Lesley McIlrath 2–4 Winner 14 1982 Pontins Ladies' Bowl Champion Sue Foster 3–0 Runner-up 15 1999 Ladies Regal Scottish Masters seniors' (over 40s) final Mary Hawkes 0–2 Runner-up 16 2003 Ladies Regal Welsh Championship seniors' (over 40s) final Maureen Twomey 1–2
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