Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLEDLYN - see DAVIES, DAVID REES
DAVIES, DAVID REES (Cledlyn; 1875 - 1964), schoolmaster, poet, writer, local historian
EVANS, DAVID CLEDLYN (1858 - 1940), schoolmaster, geologist, antiquary
EVANS, JOHN JAMES (1894 - 1965), teacher and writer Rees Davies, ' Cledlyn ', came as headmaster in 1902. Davies was of the same stock and he had a great influence on his pupil. The father was an engineer in a coal mine in the Aberdare area and he came home to see his family every month. Evans went in 1912 from Llandysul County School to the University College at Bangor where he obtained second-class honours in Welsh in 1915 and took his degree in the
EVANS, TIMOTHY EDGAR (1912 - 2007), opera singer Edgar Evans was born at Cwrt Farm near Cwrtnewydd, Ceredigion, on 9 June 1912, the youngest of 13 children of William Evans (d. 1927) and his wife Margaret (d. 1947). He received elementary education at the local school where the headmaster was the poet and local historian David Rees Davies, 'Cledlyn'. In 1921 he heard the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso on the radio, and was sufficiently enchanted

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