Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet Born 4 June 1915, son of Sir Harold Idris Bell 1879 - 1967) and Mabel Winifred (née Ayling). He received his education at a private school at Crouch End, London, and Merchant Taylors' School, where he was taught the classics and was given some instruction in art. He spent four years at the Royal College of Art, and gained the diploma. He joined the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to the
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator
BIANCHI, ANTHONY (Tony) (1952 - 2017), writer research for a collection of Idris Davies's poetry which was eventually edited by Dafydd Johnston as The Complete Poems of Idris Davies (1994). Bianchi supported left-wing causes all his life, although there is little overtly political in his work. He was active in the Wales Anti-Apartheid Movement and supported the campaign for nuclear disarmament. He was also an accomplished pianist. Tony Bianchi died
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar by translating and publishing a selection of his papers in The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (1972). She prepared with D. Simon Evans both English and Welsh editions of the major medieval tale of Culhwch and Olwen (1988 and 1997), based on the study which had been pioneered by her friend Sir Idris Foster. Conscious of her own duty towards scholarship she organised with Professor Foster Cylch yr
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer favourite mountains, Cadair Idris. Most years he would visit this mountain in early spring to see his much-loved purple saxifrage in flower.
COX, ARTHUR HUBERT (1884 - 1961), geologist as a lecturer in geology at U.C.W., Aberystwyth in 1909 but went to King's College London the following year. He was a member of H.M. Geological Survey in 1917 but was appointed to the Chair of Geology at U.C.S.W., Cardiff in 1918 where he remained until his retirement in 1949. He worked on the geology of the Pembrokeshire coast and on Cader Idris, extending our knowledge of the volcanoes of the
DAVIES, IDRIS (1905 - 1953), miner, schoolmaster and poet Cemetery. During his lifetime four volumes of his poetry were published: Gwalia Deserta (1938), written at Rhymney; The Angry Summer: a poem of 1926 (1943), which he wrote in three months at Meesden; Tonypandy and other poems (1945), which he wrote during the short stay at Treherbert; and Selected Poems (1953), chosen by T. S. Eliot, who thought that the poems of Idris Davies had a claim to permanence as
DAVIES, JOHN IDRIS (Ioan Idris; 1821 - 1889), Welsh-American poet Born at Bala, Meironnydd, son of John Davies, bookbinder and stationer, he attended school at Dolgelley and was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle, Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill, 1780 - 1861), carpenter, who, together with John Jones (Idris Fychan, 1825 - 1887), taught him the Welsh bardic rules. At the age of 21 he emigrated to Utica, N.Y., where he became an elder in the Welsh Calvinistic
DERFEL, ROBERT JONES (1824 - 1905), poet and socialist traveller, his territory covering Staffordshire, part of the Midlands, and North Wales as far south as Aberystwyth. He was a lay preacher among the Baptists and was a contributor to their periodicals, Y Tyst Apostolaidd and Y Greal. In Manchester a literary society consisting of four persons - Creuddynfab (William Williams, 1814 - 1869, Ceiriog, Idris Fychan (John Jones, 1825 - 1887), and Robert Jones
EVANS, DANIEL SIMON (1921 - 1998), Welsh scholar of Celtic Studies. He was a student at the United Theological College Aberystwyth in 1945 and graduated BD in 1947. He was particularly attracted to Greek and Hebrew and was more interested in church history and biblical textual studies than in philosophy and theology as such. During 1947-48 he was at Jesus College Oxford, one of the first students of Professor Idris Foster who had been appointed
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician nonconformist Christianity. His grandfather, Ben Evans (1854-1918), was an Independent minister, whose removal from Llanelli to Barry led to Gwynfor's being born in that commercial, cosmopolitan town. Ben was in turn the nephew of a minister and the brother of two others, and Idris, Dan's brother, also entered the ministry. Gwynfor was steeped, through the religious and social activities of his grandfather's
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar time he found High Church Anglicanism to be a more congenial spiritual home. Astudiaethau ar yr hengerdd contains a photograph of Idris Ll. Foster.

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