Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLOYD GEORGE, MAIR ELUNED - see LLOYD GEORGE
MARQUAND, HILARY ADAIR (1901 - 1972), economist and Labour politician member of the Assemblies of the Council of Europe and the WEU, 1957-59. He was also a member of the National Union of Teachers and of the National Union of Blastfurnacemen. Hilary Marquand married on 20 August 1929 Rachel Eluned Rees BA (born in 1903 or 1904), a schoolteacher and the daughter of David James Rees of Ystalyfera, well-known as the owner of Llais Llafur. They enjoyed a notably happy family
MORGAN, ELUNED (1870 - 1938), writer and Patagonian colonist
OWEN, OWEN JOHN (1867 - 1960) y Fenni, printer and publisher, choir conductor and eisteddfod compère their father's biography (1907) and the works of Eluned Morgan : Dringo'r Andes (1904), Gwymon y môr (1909), Ar dir a môr (1913). On 9 October 1909 John Owen married Mabel Annie Dawson, and by that time he was well-known as a choir conductor, an elocutionist, witty public speaker and compère at eisteddfodau. He refused an offer to be a compère at the national eisteddfod in Abergavenny in 1913, but he
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights ) and the philologist Paul Meyer (1840-1917); the Assyriologist Archibald Henry Sayce (1845-1933); the theologian Edwin Hatch (1835-1889); and progressive women such as Welsh doctor Frances Hoggan (1843-1927); the Patagonian author Eluned Morgan (1870-1938); and Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845-1936), principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, from 1892. Throughout her busy life as the wife of a figure
ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist in particular Vitamin D3, a vital food supplement. He met his wife, Winifred Mary Gambold (1924-1987), a nurse from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire at the London Welsh Club, and they married in February 1950, and went on to have four children, Gareth (b. 1952), Aled (b. 1953), Megan (b. 1955), and Eluned (b. 1960). In 1958 he became Chief Chemist at Peboc, and, in 1965, Director and General Manager
SAUNDERS, WILLIAM (1871 - 1950), minister (B) and educationalist education committee. For his services to education the University of Wales conferred on him an hon. LL.D. degree in 1946. He and his wife Jane had a daughter, Eluned, who was a doctor in London. He died 2 May 1950 and was buried in Pontycymer cemetery.
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant ', Dollis Hill, there was an open door for a host of Welsh people, especially ministers of the Gospel. They had 3 daughters; Morfudd, who married J. Idris Jenkins, the first minister of the Welsh Congregational church at Harrow; Gwyneth; and Eluned Marian, who emigrated to Toronto, Canada, and who was President of the North American Welsh National Gymanfa Ganu Association 1976-78. He died 16 April 1965.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer schoolroom was built at Pantyffynnon in 1904, and another in Tir-y-dail in 1906 (a church was established there in 1911; see W.N. Williams, Y Deugain Mlynedd Hyn (Ammanford, 1921)). A beautiful new chapel was built at Bethany in 1930. Nantlais was elevated to the chair of the South Wales Association (1943), and he was Moderator of the General Assembly (1940). He corresponded for years with Eluned Morgan of

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