Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician twelve months as Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs were marred by the continuing crisis over Southern Rhodesia. He travelled to Southern Rhodesia three times in futile attempts to reach an agreement with Ian Smith over the future of the territory. He attended the talks on H.M.S. Tiger with Harold Wilson and Elwyn Jones, the Attorney General. During these negotiations, Wilson overshadowed
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman also holds a portrait of him by John Elwyn.
DAVIES, ALUN (1916 - 1980), historian Alun Davies was born in the manse of the Welsh Independents in the main street of Llandysul, Cardiganshire, 30 October 1916, one of four children of Rev. Ben Davies (1878-1958), minister of the Welsh Independents, and his wife Sarah (née Bowen). The eldest child was Nan (Arianwen), the second Elwyn Davies, Secretary of the University of Wales, the third was Alun, and the fourth the broadcaster
DAVIES, BEN (1878 - 1958), Independent minister , near Carmarthen who were in the lineage of Samuel Bowen, Macclesfield (1799 - 1877. They had one daughter, Arianwen, and three sons, Elwyn, Alun and Hywel. He began his ministry in the churches of Siloh, Pontardulais, and Hen Gapel, Llanelli. In 1907 he went to Hermon, Plas-marl, Swansea and remained there until 1914. He served in Seion, Llandysul from 1914 to 1924. He moved to Capel Newydd
ELWYN-EDWARDS, DILYS (1918 - 2012), composer at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied composition with Herbert Howells and piano with Kathleen McQuitty. She married Elwyn Edwards on 3 September 1947 and lived in Oxford while he was studying at Mansfield and she continued to teach in local schools. They returned to Wales when he accepted the pastorate of Castle Square Presbyterian Church in Caernarfon. From 1973 onwards Dilys
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English , daughter of John and Catherine Edwards, Eirianfa, Dolgellau, 28 December 1910, and they had four children: Elwyn, Mari, Nest, Brian. He died 16 July 1968. He shone as one of the most versatile of the poets and writers of Wales. He was a playwright, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, lecturer, and a lyrical poet in both Welsh and English; he was also a musician and an excellent artist. He won some of the
JANNER, BARNETT (BARON JANNER), (1892 - 1982), politician spoke with great feeling of his early years in Barry and Cardiff. In his later years, he lived at 45 Morpeth Mansions, Morpeth, London. He died at St. Stephen's Hospital, Fulham, London, on 4 May 1982. The funeral was held at Willesden Jewish cemetery on 6 May; Lord Hailsham and Lord Elwyn-Jones gave addresses at a memorial service held in St. John's Wood Synagogue on 20 June. Lady Janner, who was
JONES, DAVID LEWIS (1945 - 2010), Librarian of the House of Lords college's law librarian. Encouraged by Lord Elwyn-Jones, Lord Chancellor in the Labour Governments of the 1970s, Jones migrated to London, serving as Deputy Librarian of the House of Lords, 1977-91, and then as its Librarian from 1991 until his retirement in 2006. At the House of Lords, he was the first qualified librarian to be appointed to this role, dedicated to the sorely overdue task of re
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer Jones's post graduate research was developed, especially his doctoral thesis on Tregaron. That work led to several publications but the most significant was 'Tregaron: the Sociology of a Market Town in Central Cardiganshire' in Welsh Rural Communities, a volume edited by Elwyn Davies and Alwyn Rees (1960). Both the title and the context are worthy of note. It was unambiguously called 'the sociology of
JONES, WALTER IDRIS (1900 - 1971), Director General of Research Development for the National Coal Board (NCB) ). He played flanker for London-Welsh and Llanelli rugby clubs, and also for the Barbarians. He played for Wales against England, France, Ireland and Scotland (1924-25); he was captain on one occasion. He was a prominent active member of Welsh societies in London. Lord Elwyn-Jones was his brother. Idris Jones was unmarried and died 5 July 1971 at 9b The Cathedral Green, Llandaff, Cardiff.
JONES, WILLIAM ELWYN EDWARDS (1904 - 1989), Labour politician
LEWIS, JOHN HUW (1931 - 2008), printer and publisher member of the choir originally known as Gleisiaid Teifi, conducted by Catherine Watkin and then Elwyn Davies. He was a founder member of the local dining club and he served on more than one occasion as president of Cymrodorion Llandysul. He worked tirelessly to establish a Welsh-language nursery school in Llandysul and also the bilingual secondary school, Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi, on whose governing body he

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