Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WALDO GORONWY (1904 - 1971), poet and pacifist Waldo Williams was born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire on 30 September 1904, the third of five children of John Edwal Williams (1863-1934) and Angharad Williams (née Jones, 1875-1932). His father was headmaster of Prendergast School in Haverfordwest and English was the language spoken within the family. Following periods of nervous illness which left a lasting impression on his young son, in
JAMES, EDWARD (1839 - 1904), Congregational minister Born at Llanfachraeth, Anglesey, 12 June 1839, the eldest child of John and Margaret James, and brother of O. Waldo James. He became a member at Bodedern in 1853, and started to preach at Tabernacle, Holyhead, in 1858, under the ministry of William Griffith. In 1859, at the request of his intimate friend William Ambrose (Emrys), Portmadoc, he moved to Gorseddau, near Penmorfa, to conduct
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer Born 12 December 1906 at y Lan, near Efail-wen, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Brynconyn primary school, Llandysilio (where John Idwal Williams, father of his lifelong friend Waldo Williams, was headmaster) and at the county school in Narberth where he later began his career as an apprentice to a chemist. He was baptized in 1923 at Rhydwilym, and the traditions of that ancient church and the
JAMES, OWEN WALDO (1845 - 1910), Baptist minister , but his health broke down and he moved to Pen-coed, near Bridgend, where he died 18 July 1910. He was a frequent competitor at eisteddfodau, and his name ' Waldo ' is said to have originated as a pseudonym. He was responsible for a South Wales edition of Yr Herald Gymraeg, and published Adnodau Dyrys y Testament Newydd, 1887; Blinder Diweddaraf yr Eglwysi … Anerchiad …, 1883; and Esboniad y Bobl: Yr
LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister living, in the hope of establishing a new life there, but he was taken ill on the voyage and he died shortly after arriving at Danville, Pa. on 27 May 1887. Benjamin Waldo Lewis was baptised at Salem, Mass. within a week of his eleventh birthday, but less than three years later the family had moved back closer to the extended family in south Wales. They moved to Tylorstown and, in July 1891, enrolled
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet cultivated proudly the dialect of Dowlais which he believed to be the purest extant form of Welsh. His view of Wales was geographically confined to the southern valleys, Swansea and Gower. He was anti-English but disliked people from north Wales too and wrote a verse, 'Please Keep your Gog on a Lead'. He thought Robert Williams Parry was Wales' finest poet and felt something akin to hero-worship for Waldo
PAGE, LESLIE ALUN (1920 - 1990), Minister (Cong.) Presbyterian Church at Banc-y-felin. Alun Page read widely and meditated in both English and Welsh literature. He was impressed by T. S. Eliot, Waldo and Gwenallt and often quoted from them. He spoke of the greatness of R. T. Jenkins as a writer, and praised D. J. Williams and his 'square mile.' Karl Barth was another influence and he was not unfamiliar with the thoughts of Freud and Marx. He was indebted to
WILLIAMS, DAVID JOHN (1885 - 1970), writer to his two autobiographical volumes, Hen dy ffarm (1953) and Yn chwech ar hugain oed (1959). Hen dy ffarm [transl. Waldo Williams, The old farmhouse (1961)] is his masterpiece, the story of cultivating the land of Pen-rhiw, creating a garden and orchard and then leaving because the hard work of winning the land brought ill-health and tensions within the family, preventing its continuation. Like
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist ('Poems from Latin', 1962) and Cerddi Groeg Clasurol ('Classical Greek Poems', 1989), and also published a Welsh translation of Aristotle's Poetics (1978; new printing, 2001). He was a friend of Waldo Williams and D. J. Williams: a collection which he made of Waldo's poems provided a basis for the publication of Dail Pren ('Tree Leaves', 1956); he was editor of a volume in D. J.'s honour (1965), of a
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author Stalingrad rally in Pontypridd, where she met Morien Waldo Parry Morgan (1916-1997), a schoolmaster at Pontypridd Boys' Grammar School who had fought with the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. The two fell in love and were married at Capel Rhondda, Hopkinstown, on 11 April 1945. They began married life in Burnley, Lancashire, where they lived until 1950. In this period, Morien Morgan
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator in the Writers of Wales series (1972), which helped introduce his work to a new audience; an important and pioneering study of T. H. Parry Williams's early works, Rhyw Hanner Ieuenctid (1971); and a particularly well-informed lecture on the major themes in the poetry of Waldo Williams, which penetrates under the surface of his poems to the Christian and humanitarian beliefs which lie at their heart

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