Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian came under the influence of the Principal, Dr. Pennar Davies, and he began to learn Welsh. He gained the degree of BD in 1958; then with the help of a grant from the World Council of Churches he went as a research student to the University of Princeton, U.S.A. where he was awarded the degree of MTh. in 1959 for his thesis on the Church of South India. Whilst in the USA he visited the offices of the
DAVIES, DEWI ALED EIRUG (1922 - 1997), Congregationalist minister and professor of theology the relocation of the College to Aberystwyth, he succeeded W. T. Pennar Davies as Principal. He retired in 1988 and moved to Cardiff. He was the Chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1990. He was a prolific author (as is revealed in the Bibliography compiled by his brother, Alun, for the volume Cofio Dewi Eirug), publishing and editing a number of substantial volumes. He was also the editor
DAVIES, NOËLLE (1899 - 1983), littérateur, educationist, and political activist published in small magazines and newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, pre- and post-War. Her selected poems, Middle Country (1936) was published in Wales and she edited Pencader Poems (1952) for Plaid Cymru. She was part of the poetic and literary circle promoted by Pennar Davies during the post-War burgeoning of Anglo-Welsh literature. Describing herself as 'minor poet', her known poems amount to
DAVIES, WILLIAM DAVID (1911 - 2001), Biblical scholar New Testament, in the Memorial College, Brecon. Among his contemporaries in Cardiff were the classicist J. Gwyn Griffiths and his friend Pennar Davies, and there, and in Brecon, one who also became a renowned New Testament scholar, Isaac Thomas. With his mind set on becoming an Independent minister, W. D. Davies continued his training at Cheshunt College, Cambridge, gaining a B.A. degree in part ii
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Pennar Davies was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 12 November 1911, only son of Joseph and Annie (née Moss) Davies. He had three sisters. His father was a miner from the Rhondda Valley and his mother from the Anglicized part of Pembrokeshire, English was the language of the home. The family were poor, partly due to Joseph's mining injuries as well as to the depressed state of the industrial
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
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author the Christian faith and its Nonconformist expression. He persuaded authors like Tecwyn Lloyd, R. E. Jones, R. Tudur Jones, Pennar Davies, Gwynfor Evans, Cassie Davies and others, to publish through Ty John Penri books which were greatly appreciated by Welsh readers. He died July 13 1979, in Swansea, and was cremated in Morriston Crematorium. His ashes were interred in the cemetery nearby. On his
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary . Jenkins, and he afterwards attended St. Helen's Road Board School, Swansea. He worked for a while as weigher at his father's mine before being apprenticed as a chemist. He began preaching under the ministry of G. Pennar Griffiths. He was a student in Watcyn Wyn's Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, and then went to Plymouth college (which later transferred to Bristol). He was accepted by the London Missionary
GRIFFITHS, DAVID ROBERT (1915 - 1990), Baptist minister and Biblical scholar writers in the Rhondda. In 1953, they published a volume of poetry entitled Cerddi Cadwgan. D. R. Griffiths contributed nineteen pieces to the volume which also contained the work of his brother, J. Gwyn Griffiths together with the work of Pennar Davies, Gareth Alban Davies and Rhydwen Williams. Most of D. R. Griffiths's poems in Cerddi Cadwgan were parodies or satires, while the later Defosiwn a
GRIFFITHS, GRIFFITH PENNAR (1860 - 1918), Congregational minister
GRIFFITHS, JOHN GWYNEDD (1911 - 2004), scholar, poet and Welsh nationalist . Gwyn Griffiths was appointed Latin master at his old school in Porth. In this period his and Käthe's home, in Pentre, became the focus for 'Cylch Cadwgan' ('The Cadwgan Circle'), a group of like-minded young writers, including Pennar Davies and Rhydwen Williams. They were radical in their Christian, pacifist and nationalist convictions; they also longed to see Welsh literature, freed from old

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