Dictionary of Welsh Biography

GRUFFYDD, ROBERT GERAINT (1928 - 2015), Welsh scholar with people or his research. He would have said that it enriched his life and work. He married Luned (Roberts) in 1953. They had been students together in Bangor and she shared in his religious experience. They had three children, Siân, Rhun and Pyrs. Geraint Gruffydd served on many academic and public bodies, including the Welsh Books Council, the University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, the
JONES, OWEN VAUGHAN (1907 - 1986), obstetrician and gynaecologist Vaughan (1944-2014) and a daughter, Luned Vaughan (b. 1949). He continued to research in his specialist field, lecturing widely in Britain and the USA and publishing in medical journals throughout his career, and was an active member of several professional societies, serving as chair of the north-west Wales branch of the BMA in 1955 and president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological
JONES, TOM ELLIS (1900 - 1975), Baptist minister and college Principal entry into the Baptist College in Bangor and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He graduated in the Arts in 1923 and in Theology in 1926. That year he accepted a call to pastor the Welsh Baptist church in Ebenezer, Mold, and he was ordained to serve there and in its mission in Maes-y-dre. In April 1928 he married Edith Gwendoline Jones from Penuel, Bangor. They had one daughter, Luned. Tom
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Bangor, the young couple united after the war brought up their two daughters, Eryl born on 13 November 1940 in Old Colwyn where his parents lived by then (the poem 'Y Wers ar y Piano' ['The Piano Lesson'] in Pont y Caniedydd is about her) and Luned born in Cardiff on 7 September 1942. In Bangor the family lived in three houses in turn: Menai Fron, Upper Bangor (1946-49); Pen y Lan, Belmont Road (1949
MORRIS, JOHN RICHARD (1879 - 1970), bookseller, writer comedy, Luned (1928), and after retiring he wrote his autobiography, Atgofion llyfrwerthwr (1963) and a romantic novel, Allwedd Serch, which is among his papers at N.L.W. He married (spring 1905 ?) and he and his wife Elizabeth had two children who died young. His wife died 21 September 1950; he died 26 April 1970 and was buried in Llanrug churchyard.
WATKIN-JONES, ELIZABETH (1887 - 1966), author of children's books in 1947, she published seven novels or historical stories for children - Plant y Mynachdy (1939) - (her own favourite), Luned Bengoch (1946), Y Cwlwm Cêl (1947), Y Dryslwyn (1947), Esyllt (1951), Lois (1955), and ' Lowri ' in Storïau Ias a Chyffro (1951). Every one of these, with the exception of Y Dryslwyn, is set in Nefyn, and together they ensure for their author a place in the front rank of

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