Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABLETT, NOAH (1883 - 1935), miner and Trade Union leader Miners' Agent at Merthyr Tydfil, a post he held until his death. Ablett's importance in the history of Trade Unionism in South Wales is twofold: he was one of the leaders of the opposition to the older miners' leaders like William Abraham (Mabon), and he became a propagandist for Syndicalist and Marxist ideas among the miners. Others had opposed Mabon before Ablett, and as a result had organised one
ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation miners' representative from South Wales; he represented Rhondda West, 1918-22. He was associated with the radical wing of the Liberal Party until 1906 when the Labour Party became a separate political organization, although the Miners' Federation did not become affiliated until 1909. Mabon, however, did not take an active part in political life; his main importance lies in the history of trade unionism
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. local branch of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. At that time one of the major controversies in the south Wales coalfield was the sliding scale arrangement for paying miners. At the head of those who favoured the sliding scale principle was William Abraham (Mabon). Brace became the leader of the opposition movement, and the activities of the two men brought them into official and personal
JONES, ANEURIN (Aneurin Fardd; 1822 - 1904), man of letters adjudicated frequently at the eisteddfodau; and it was he who, at the Aberdare national eisteddfod (1861), awarded the prize to Ceiriog for his pastoral 'Alun Mabon.' In 1861 he started a printing-press for the purpose of printing a periodical, Y Bedyddiwr, and continued at this work for two and a half years. Then his circumstances became involved and he emigrated (1864) to America, first to Scranton, then
JONES, JOHN WILLIAM (1883 - 1954), author, collector of letters and papers, publisher, antiquary and folk poet reading. He was generally known as 'Joni Bardd' in his neighbourhood and he fulfilled the function of folk poet conscientiously. He had a burning interest in Welsh and English poetry, and particularly in collecting and publishing the work of some of the poets of his own and neighbouring areas. He edited some of the works of Ap Alun Mabon, Gwrid y Machlud (Blaenau Ffestiniog, 1941); Ioan Brothen, Llinell
LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician vocal programmes on sound radio, including ' Melys Lais '; and ' Cenwch im yr hen ganiadau '. Although he was not a prolific composer, he arranged a number of works for male voice choirs, and some of the songs from his setting of ' Alun Mabon ' (Ceiriog), which was first broadcast in 1935, remain popular on eisteddfod and concert platforms. He was the author of a useful volume Cerddoriaeth yng Nghymru
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic nurse from Porth, Rhondda, represented an ideal of mutual trust and strength which formed a counterpoint to the destructive powers threatening the future of the world at the time: in his words years later, 'Fulfillment of the relationship between two people is for me the beginning of all goodness, and the only practical basis for complete reform of society and civilisation' (Mabon, 1971). The
MABON - see ABRAHAM, WILLIAM
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist died). In 1909 there was published An Allen Raine Birthday Book. She contributed a number of short stories to various periodicals, and in Wales, 1897, vol. iv, there appears an English translation by her of Ceiriog's poem 'Alun Mabon.'
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author came in May 1956, when the BBC broadcast his short story 'Knight Mabon' on the Light Programme. A second short story, 'Ferb', aired in March 1957. This was followed by success in the short story competitions run by the Phoenix Literary Club in Cardiff. 'Thy People: A Fable' was then published in the literary magazine, Wales, in October 1958. Richards quickly established himself as a near-permanent
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes to say that under his influence Swansea became 'the metallurgical centre of the world.' Vivian became the first chairman of the Glamorgan county council (1889). After the South Wales coal strike in 1889 he introduced the celebrated 'sliding scale' in regard to wages (see also under William Abraham (Mabon) and William Thomas Lewis). He helped to extend the harbour facilities of Swansea and was one

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