Dictionary of Welsh Biography

STEPHENS, MICHAEL (1938 - 2018), writer and literature administrator learning Welsh, and was taught by Islwyn Ffowc Elis while undertaking teacher training at Bangor University. He taught at Ebbw Vale 1962-66. One night at the Old Arcade pub in Cardiff he met Harri Webb; Stephens's jacket caught fire from a cigarette lighter and Webb doused him with a pint of Guinness. The two had much in common - poetry, European literature, nationalism, a Valleys sensibility - and
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor the principles of literary criticism adopted by the editor. Two lectures were published in pamphlet form - Ceiriog (1939) and Islwyn (1942). Gruffydd was better known to his fellow-countrymen as a poet than as a scholar. He competed unsuccessfully for the crown at the national eisteddfod at Bangor in 1902 with a poem on the subject ' Trystan ac Esyllt ', but was awarded the prize at the London
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist wandered into many directions and attention was regularly given to Current Affairs in this period leading up to and during the early years of World War Two. Tecwyn Lloyd encouraged his students to compose their own work and and during these years their work was published in a magazine entitled Llafar Gwlad. His co-tutor was Islwyn Pritchard and together they organised a number of walking tours in the
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress home in Cardiff, thanks to the strength of the BBC in television drama there. She appeared over the years in series such as Z Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, Owen M.D., Dad's Army, and made a major contribution to the popular success of director John Hefin's bold venture, the first Welsh-language soap opera, Pobol y Cwm (BBC Cymru Wales, 1974-). Together with Harriet Lewis, Charles Williams, Islwyn Morris
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator variety of programmes which he produced on science, literature, agriculture and nature. He had a particularly rich and melodious voice which suited the radio perfectly - in the opinion of his friend Islwyn Ffowc Elis 'the most melodious Welsh voice I ever heard' – and he made an important contribution to broadcasting through helping to develop the vocabulary used and the range of subjects covered on the
ISLWYN - see THOMAS, WILLIAM
ISLWYN, Baron - see HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN

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