Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister responsible for all the work of the Society on the island. He died at his home at Briarleigh, Longacre Road on 31 December 1953, after a long illness which followed an accident at Borth the previous September. He was buried at Carmarthen public cemetery on 4 January 1954. He was married on 14 June 1922 at Zion English Presbyterian church, Carmarthen to Enid Mari Wheldon (born 14 March 1892), a native of
LEWIS, IDRIS (1889 - 1952), musician (1945) which was translated into Welsh by Enid Parry. His brother was D.H. Lewis, Llanelli, author of Cofiant J.T. Rees, and also of a number of articles on Welsh musicians which were published in Y Genhinen and other periodicals.
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic Margaret Ann Price (1875-1948) from Rhyl. Enid Wyn Jones was his sister. His background was different to that of most other Welsh-language writers of the time in that he had a middle-class professional upbringing in Cardiff. Although English was the main language of the home, that did not mean that the family was Anglicized: he says that he had 'a faint memory of playing by myself in Welsh as a young boy
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Walden by Henry David Thoreau. With the help of his mother he secured ten acres of land seven or so miles away close to St Mellons, in Monmouthshire at the time, and with his eldest sister Enid established a smallholding. It began with poultry, but a naturalist's paradise was planned complete with an island in a flooded hollow. An attempt to visit Steepholm failed but he and an older neighbouring
MORRIS, JAN (1926 - 2020), writer Jan Morris was born on 2 October 1926 in Clevedon, Somerset, as James Humphry Morris, the youngest of three boys. Her father Walter Henry Morris (1896-1938) had been gassed in World War I, and made ends meet by driving taxis and hearses. Her mother Enid (née Payne; 1886-1981) was an organist and music teacher. Her two older brothers were Gareth Charles Walter (1920-2007), an internationally
OWAIN, OWAIN LLEWELYN (1877 - 1956), litterateur, musician and journalist 'Gweithiau ac athrylith Llew Llwyfo' awarded at Colwyn Bay in 1910. R. Williams Parry won the chair for his ode 'Yr Haf' in the same eisteddfod. A procession was organised, lead by the Nantlle band, to welcome both home from that eisteddfod. He married (1) Claudia Roberts, 12 June 1916; one daughter was born to them. His wife died 29 November 1918. He married (2) in 1921 Enid May Jones from Port Dinorwic
OWEN, WILLIAM HUGH (1886 - 1957), civil servant of Shipping. He played hockey for Wales against Ireland in 1910. He married 8 October 1919, Enid Strathearn, daughter of Sir John Hendrie, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Ontario, and they had three daughters. He made his home at Montreal and died 21 February 1957.
PARRY, EDGAR WILLIAMS (1919 - 2011), surgeon attended Waunfawr Primary School and then Caernarfon County Grammar School. He chose to follow a medical career and studied at Liverpool University School of Medicine, graduating MB ChB in 1943. At Liverpool he met Enid Rees, also a doctor, and they were married in 1949. In the same year he became a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He continued his surgical training first at the
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet Rhys”. There also he met Enid, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs Picton Davies, whom he married 20 May, 1936. In 1929, on the death of Sir John Morris-Jones, Thomas Parry was appointed lecturer in his old Department at Bangor, now headed by [Sir] Ifor Williams. There, the vigorous and versatile young scholar flourished. His early publications include numerous articles on Siôn Dafydd Rhys and his
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator . Two daughters, Muriel and Enid, born in Cardiff, were followed by two Aberystwyth-born sons, (Richard) Geraint, the Cambridge-educated lawyer, and two-and-a-half years later (Morgan) Goronwy Rees. 'Gony' within the family, 'Rees' to his own wife and children, the future author and journalist owed his first name to his uncle Morgan (R. J.'s younger brother), a medical doctor killed in the Somme
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician on programmes such as Camau Cyntaf and Croeso Christine. TWW, however, lost its license to Harlech (HTV) in 1968, and Roberts's distaste for the switch led him to pursue an alternative career in politics. He married Enid Grace Williams in 1956, and they had three sons, Geraint, Rhys (d. 2004) and Huw. In 1970 Roberts was elected MP for the seat of Conwy under the Conservative Party, a choice which
TREVOR, Sir CHARLES GERALD (1882 - 1959), inspector of forests was prominent in the National Farmers' Union and all agricultural activities. For 17 years he served as a magistrate, and was High Sheriff of his county in 1941. In 1912 he married Enid Carroll Beadon and had three daughters. He died 20 May 1959.

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