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  • BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director Shakespearean expert was cemented by publications. You, My Brother (1973) was a long novel that told the story of William Shakespeare's younger brother Ned but his most accomplished work was The Sole Voice: Character Portraits from Shakespeare (1970). He also wrote Early Doors. My Life and the Theatre (1969), calling it 'the theatrical autobiography of a stage-struck man.' In 1964, returning from a lecture in
  • EVANS, MEREDYDD (1919 - 2015), campaigner, musician, philosopher and television producer became increasingly prominent as an activist breaking the law on several occasions, including turning off the Pencarreg mast in 1979 with Ned Thomas and Pennar Davies in the campaign for a Welsh-language television channel. He drew the wrath of the cultural and political establishment when he used his speech as one of the daily Presidents at the 1986 National Eisteddfod to attack the government of the
  • GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author Israel's oppressive policy towards the Palestinian territories following the war of 5-10 June 1967. When Maro was challenged on the question of the correspondence which she asserted existed between Wales and Israel in an interview with Ned Thomas for Planet in 1976, she defended Israel's actions in the 'tragedy' then evolving in the Middle East. At the same time, she again presented the concept of
  • JONES, EDWARD (fl. 1781-1840), member, from 1781 of the London Gwyneddigion
  • LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist Diroedd y Dwyrain, (translation of work by H. I. Bell) 1946; Ysgol Llawrybetws, 1908-1958 (ed.), 1958; Ned Sera Jôs, (private publication) R. Williams Parry (Pamffledi Llenyddol Cyfadran Addysg Aberystwyth), 1962; Tannau'r Cawn (ed.) (the poems of William Jones), 1965; Y Cythreuliaid (translation of The Devils by John Whiting) 1965; Safle'r Gerbydres ac Ysgrifau Eraill, 1970; Hyd Eithaf y Ddaear a
  • MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive who was a tenor. The choir were twice winners of the mixed choir prize at the National Eisteddfod, at Dolgellau in 1949 and Aberystwyth in 1951. At Tonyrefail Grammar, Morgan initially played football and cricket for his school, but not rugby until the relatively late age of 16, when he came under the tutelage of rugby coach Ned Gribble. Gribble played Morgan in a variety of positions - hooker, wing
  • MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer 2006, Ned Thomas wrote, 'Re-reading Pax Britannica now, I am struck by how just and balanced most of its judgements are, on both the colonizers and colonized.' Others are less enthusiastic. In a 2019 LRB essay, James Wood calls Pax Britannica 'glitteringly nostalgic', writing that 'Morris doesn't exactly hide the racism and genocidal violence of the imperial enterprise, but they're somehow swept up
  • NED MÔN - see JONES, EDWARD
  • PROGER family Charles II, whose intimate friend he became - Charles called him ' Ned Proger,' and H. T. Payne possessed many letters from Charles to Proger, and letters written to Proger by magnates like prince Rupert, who evidently thought that Proger had much influence over Charles. He was with Charles in Scotland in 1650, but the Scots banished him, as ' an evil instrument and bad counsellor ' of Charles and of
  • TURNER, EDWARD (1792 - 1826), prize-fighter
  • TURNER, NED - see TURNER, EDWARD