Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author Rev. Euros Bowen and William Thomas (Pennar) Davies, co-founded the journal Y Fflam (The Flame), the couple moved to Swansea, where Gwyn had been appointed Lecturer in Classics and Egyptology in 1946. It was here that they raised their two sons, authors and publishers Robat Gruffudd (born 1943) and Heini Gruffudd (born 1946), while Kate was working as Honorary Curator of Archaeology at Swansea
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor Born 20 July 1874, son of Thomas and Dinah Bowen of Treorchy, Glamorganshire, elder brother of Ben Bowen and Thomas (Orchwy) Bowen (father of the archdruid Geraint Bowen and the poet Euros Bowen), and of the mother of Sir Ben Bowen Thomas. Both parents had moved from Carmarthenshire to the coal industry in the Rhondda. The family's Welsh culture was safeguarded and fostered by the chapel life in
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Siân were born. This area, on the border with England, was his home until his last few years, when he moved to Ystradowen in the Vale of Glamorgan to be closer to his family. In the Wrexham area, over the years, he enjoyed the company of cultured local Welsh speakers such as the poet Euros Bowen, and his neighbour in Ruabon, the former coal-mine manager and politician Tom Ellis. He was also one of
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist his son Heini Gruffudd.) In 1943 he moved from the Rhondda Valley to become Latin master at Bala Grammar School: in this period he assisted Euros Bowen in establishing Y Fflam ('The Flame'), a journal which (until 1952) provided a platform for a new generation of Welsh-language writers. In 1946 J. Gwyn Griffiths was appointed assistant lecturer, then in 1947 lecturer, in Classics at University
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic -79) which was their main family home; and on his retirement, Cwm Bychan, 11 Ffordd Ffriddoedd (1979-88). Pont y Caniedydd came out in 1956, an annus mirabilis for modern Welsh poetry considering that Waldo Williams's Dail Pren and Euros Bowen's Cerddi were published in the same year. With his rhythmic control and careful attention to craftsmanship, Alun Llywelyn-Williams is considered one of the
POWELL, WILLIAM EIFION (1934 - 2009), minister (Cong.) and college principal in the foundations that he set for that work. Eifion was appointed Principal of the College in 1992. The respect and admiration of his students towards him was great, and his colleague, Euros Wyn Jones, testified that all who knew him, knew 'of the strength of his personality, the wisdom of his advice, and the diligence of his pastoral care' for his students. Soon after Eifion became Principal, his

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