Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GWYNN, EIRWEN MEIRIONA (1916 - 2007), scientist, educator and author Eirwen Meiriona St. John Williams was born at 99 Shiel Road, Newsham Park, Liverpool, on 1 December 1916. (A family story tells that 12 December was recorded by her father, in order to avoid a fine for late registration of the birth.) Eirwen was the eldest of the two children of William (St.) John Williams (1886-1957) and his wife Annie (née Williams, 1885-1969). Her brother, Gwilym Gareth (Gari
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster wife. Eirwen Meiriona St John Williams (1916-2007) had been born in Liverpool and raised in Llangefni. They became friends through shared activities with Plaid Cymru, while Eirwen was completing a PhD in Physics. The vast correspondence between them that has survived in his papers shows how the relationship between them soon blossomed into an intellectual love affair, even though Eirwen's father
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author nationalist stance on Wales's neutrality. Teleri, the Jarmans' elder daughter, was born in 1944, whilst they were living at Llandegfan, Anglesey. By the time their second daughter, Nia Eirwen, was born in 1949, the family had moved to Cardiff, following Jarman's appointment as a lecturer in the Welsh Department of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in 1946. Moving to the capital was a
PARRY, IDRIS FREDERICK (1916 - 2008), scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster Folk-tale (OUP 1972), Hand to Mouth and Other Essays (Carcanet Press 1981), Speak Silence (Carcanet Press 1989), The Trial (translation, Penguin 1994). During his time at Bangor he had met Eirwen Lloyd Jones from Penmaenmawr, Caernarfonshire (died 1992), and they married in 1941. They had two daughters. Idris Parry died in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, on 25 January, 2008 and was cremated at Weeley (Essex).
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Brazil. On 16 October 1939, he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Following completion of his basic training in Bodmin, he was sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit. On 17 May 1941, newly commissioned a second lieutenant into the Welch Regiment, he married (Margaret) Eirwen Evans, the elder daughter of John Rees Evans, a driver, and Kate Dilys (née Davies). They had a daughter, Mair
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer teacher in a secondary school in Wales), and he would number among his pupils two prominent musicians of a younger generation, Robert Smith and Mervyn Burtch. He taught at the Cardiff (Welsh) College of Music and Drama from 1960 to 1970, and then at the University College until 1980. He married Eirwen Evans in 1933, and he and his wife were always welcoming of other musicians at their home in Maesycymer

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