Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer be out of step with the radicalism of his sons and the determination of his wife, Beth, played by Sian Phillips, Baker sparkled. His version of Gwilym Morgan has never been bettered. How Green Was My Valley was broadcast on BBC Two between 29 December 1975 and 2 February 1976, concluding a few weeks before Baker's forty eighth birthday and eleven days before he was diagnosed with lung cancer. His
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet Siân were born. This area, on the border with England, was his home until his last few years, when he moved to Ystradowen in the Vale of Glamorgan to be closer to his family. In the Wrexham area, over the years, he enjoyed the company of cultured local Welsh speakers such as the poet Euros Bowen, and his neighbour in Ruabon, the former coal-mine manager and politician Tom Ellis. He was also one of
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor , and Rottcodd in Gormenghast. In 1988, he joined an all-star Welsh cast to record Under Milk Wood. The cast was led by Sir Anthony Hopkins, and included Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Sian Phillips, Sir Harry Secombe and Philip Madoc. Davies played 1st drowned, PC Atilla Rees and the Fisherman. Davies is remembered for his distinctive round-toned purring Welsh voice, which he never hid, and used to great
EMMANUEL, IVOR LEWIS (1927 - 2007), singer and actor marriage (Siân and Simon), none from the second and one (Emily) from the third. By the time of his third marriage he had retired to a hill-top house near the town of Malaga in Spain. His tranquillity was disturbed in 1991 when the Bank of Credit and Commerce collapsed and he was revealed as one of the Bank's highest profile clients: almost his entire life savings were invested in a single deposit
EVANS, CLIFFORD GEORGE (1912 - 1985), actor ; Siân Phillips, Dame Sybil Thorndike and Dame Flora Robson; Emlyn Williams, Alun Owen and Christopher Fry. Meetings with Cardiff City Council progressed and locations were discussed. The plan was for a nine hundred seat theatre, art gallery and restaurant, rehearsal rooms, a two hundred seat student theatre and a large outdoor auditorium in Sophia Gardens, adjacent to Cardiff Castle. This centre was
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
HUGHES, SIÂN (1811 - 1878) - see HUGHES, JANE
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Jean Bell, and also received instruction in music from Professor D. E. Parry-Williams in Bangor. Having retired from competing, she concentrated on teaching, and counted among her pupils the folk singer Siân James and Ieuan Jones, Professor of Harp at the Royal College of Music, London. She also taught in schools, particularly in the area around her home in Llanfair Caereinion, and established a harp
JONES, REES CRIBIN (1841 - 1927), Unitarian minister and teacher Born at Talgarreg Mill, Cardiganshire, 9 September 1841, one of four children. David Jones, his father, was from Rhandir, Talgarreg, and his mother was from Caer-foel, Ystrad. At one time a shepherd, he was educated at Dewi Hefin's school, Cribyn, John Davies's school at the Three Horse Shoes, Cribyn, Pont-siân school (1860-63), and the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen (1863-67). He conducted
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer traditional bardic community that existed in South Cardiganshire at that time. The Urdd also had its social benefits. It was there that Dic met Sylvia Jean (Sian) Jones (1938-) from near-by Parc-llyn. Over time their friendship blossomed into a life-long marriage which was blessed with six children, Delyth Wyn (1960-), Rhian Medi (1961-), Dafydd Dyfed (1963-), Brychan Llyr (1970-) and the twins, Trystan
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer painted his well-known portrait of Siân Owen. Following Hugh Davies Jones's death in 1924 when Rhiannon was two years old the family moved to live with her grandmother on her mother's side at Penbont, Llanbedr, and Rhiannon attended primary school in Llanbedr for a short time, then in Llanfair near Harlech, where her mother was a teacher. At Barmouth Grammar School she was introduced to the history of
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author channel's first costume drama, an opportunity she turned down. The 1970s saw a turn to Welsh matters, with high-profile television adaptations of Possessions (1974) starring Anthony Hopkins; How Green Was My Valley (1975-6) starring (amongst others) Stanley Baker and Sian Phillips; and Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978). Her masterpiece The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, with its compelling

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