DAVID Davies met two prime ministers during a long life of crime.
The man who would become known as the Dartmoor Shepherd was born in Llanfihangel in 1849 and moved to within sight of Llanfyllin Workhouse.
Davies soon became a petty criminal and spent more than 50 years in prison for burglaries and robbery from church poor boxes.
He was sentenced to 13 years at Dartmoor Prison for stealing two shillings from a church poor box.
It was during his time of incarceration in Dartmoor he was visited by two esteemed guests.
In 1910 Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George paid him a visit and were so impressed by Davies that he was released to work on a farm near Ruthin.