Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Arthur ap Gwynn, born 4 November 1902, was the second of the three children of Thomas Gwynn Jones, the distinguished poet, and Margaret Jane Jones; Eluned was the eldest and Llywelyn the youngest. Arthur ap Gwynn was born in Caernarfon when his father was working on the papers, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Papur Pawb and the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald. The family moved to Denbigh in 1906, Mold in 1907 and
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician scene or the expression of some important principle which he wished to impress upon the reader's mind. Bebb translated two works from French : Geiriau credadun (1923), Lamennais's Paroles d'un croyant, and Mudandod y môr (1944), Le Silence de la mer, by ' Vercors ', a story of occupied France during World War II. He married Eluned Pierce Roberts of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, in 1931, and they had
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor sense of fun, which never left him. Returning from National Service, Davies enrolled at Bangor Teacher Training College, qualifying as a teacher. He taught Maths and English at Mountside School in Leek, Staffordshire, and subsequently at a school in Elephant and Castle in London. He became involved with amateur dramatics in his spare time throughout the 1950s. He married Eluned (Lyn) Evans in 1957
EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer estimated that 20% of the population listened to it. This made 'Merêd' a household name in Wales while he was still a relatively young man. It was here, at Bryn Meirion, Bangor, in March 1947, that he met Phyllis Kinney, an opera singer from Pontiac, Michigan. They were married the following spring on 10 April 1948 and had one daughter, Eluned (b. 1949). This was a long and happy marriage on the whole and
HUGHES, ARTHUR (1878 - 1965), writer students, viz. Cywyddau Cymru, 1908 and Gemau'r Gogynfeirdd, 1910. His translation of one of Drummond's works, Y ddinas heb ynddi deml, appeared in 1904; the second volume of Drummond's works was edited by Gwyneth Vaughan. His mother died in 1910, and the following year he emigrated to the Welsh colony in Patagonia under the patronage of Eluned Morgan, mainly because of a nervous complaint. He was given
JONES, DAFYDD RHYS (1877 - 1946), schoolmaster and musician ' School in Aberdare, before taking charge of Cwmystwyth school in December 1902. At the end of March 1906 he returned to Patagonia to be first headmaster of the secondary school there. A few weeks earlier Eluned Morgan had visited Cwmystwyth school and addressed the pupils. Apparently there was a connection between this visit and his appointment as headmaster in Gaiman where he spent 8 influential and
JONES, FRANCIS WYNN (1898 - 1970), statistician and writer , as well as official publications relating to his statistical work. At a troubled time in the story of the Welsh language he fought quietly for its equal status and voluntarily translated a number of forms and documents before there was a general call for them. He married in 1926 Eluned, daughter of T. Gwynn Jones and his wife and they had a son and daughter. He died in Aberystwyth 21 December 1970.
JONES, LEWIS (1837 - 1904), pioneer in Patagonia, and writer and started two newspapers - Ein Breiniad, 1878, and Y Dravod, 1891; the latter is still being published. A lecture given before the Cymmrodorion in 1885, when he was visiting Wales, was subsequently published, and his book Y Wladfa Gymreig was published in 1898. He had two daughters - Eluned Morgan and another who married Llwyd ap Iwan, son of Michael D. Jones. Lewis Jones was a gallant leader in
JONES, THOMAS LLEWELYN (1915 - 2009), poet and prolific writer T. Llew Jones, who published about 100 books for children and adults, was born at 1 Bwlch Melyn, Pentre-Cwrt, Carmarthenshire, 11 October 1915, the eldest son of James and Hannah Mary Jones and brother to Edwin Sieffre and Megan Eluned. His father was a weaver at the Derw Mill in Pentre-cwrt. T. Llew married Margaret Enidwen Jones, descended from the Cilie family and they had two children, Emyr
JONES, WILLIAM GARMON (1884 - 1937), professor of history and librarian of Liverpool University Miscellany); ' Bosworth Field, an episode of Welsh history ' (Trans. Liverpool Welsh National Society), 1912; York and Lancaster (Bell's 'Source Books of English History'); ' Welsh Nationalism and Henry Tudor ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1917-18). In 1923 he married Eluned, only daughter of (Sir) John Edward Lloyd of Bangor. He died 28 May 1937 and was buried in the family
LLOYD GEORGE family . MAIR ELUNED LLOYD GEORGE (1890 - 1907) It is said that Mair Eluned was her father's most cherished child; he almost broke his heart when she died, 29 November 1907, following an operation for appendicitis. She was a beautiful and talented girl, especially so in music; she used to entertain her parents by playing the piano and her father could not be reconciled to the fact that ' the white hand was
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman - 1968), Mair Eluned (1890 - 1907), Olwen Elizabeth (1892 - 1990) (who married Sir Thomas John Carey Evans), Gwilym (1894 - 1967), and Megan (1902 - 1966), (2) 23 October 1943, Frances Louise, daughter of John Stevenson of Wallington, Surrey, his long-serving personal assistant and companion.

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