Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JOHN EDWARD (1905 - 1970), secretary and organiser of Plaid Cymru there with J.E. again as secretary. As a result of his extraordinary organising talent the branch flourished and became the largest in the Party. He returned to Wales in 1930 as secretary and organiser of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru. In Glan-rhyd (Presb.) chapel on 27 July 1940 he married Olwen Roberts, the sister of John Iorwerth Roberts, and they had a son and daughter. He possessed a tough character
LLOYD GEORGE family under a crust of earth '. A beautiful marble statue of her by W. Goscombe John was placed over her grave in Cricieth cemetery. OLWEN ELIZABETH LLOYD GEORGE (Lady Olwen Carey Evans; 1892 - 1990) GWILYM LLOYD GEORGE (1894 - 1894), 1st Viscount Tenby, created 1957 privy councillor, 1941, J.P. Public and Social Service, Civil Administration Law Born 4 December 1894; educated at Eastbourne College and
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman - 1968), Mair Eluned (1890 - 1907), Olwen Elizabeth (1892 - 1990) (who married Sir Thomas John Carey Evans), Gwilym (1894 - 1967), and Megan (1902 - 1966), (2) 23 October 1943, Frances Louise, daughter of John Stevenson of Wallington, Surrey, his long-serving personal assistant and companion.
LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1951), headmaster served with the R.N.A.S. and R.A.F. He was headmaster of the County School, Port Talbot, 1919-20, and Newport Secondary School, 1921-35. He moved to Wrexham in 1935 to be headmaster of Grove Park School, where he remained until his retirement in 1946 when he moved to Menai Bridge, Anglesey. He married Olwen Beynon in 1914, and died 2 November 1951. They had 4 sons and a daughter. During his headship at
REES, LEIGHTON THOMAS (1940 - 2003), world champion darts player Leighton Rees was born 17 January 1940 in Mountain Ash hospital, Glamorganshire, the only son of Thomas Rees, a lorry driver and his wife Olwen Rees (née Holt). He was educated at Trerobert Primary School in Ynys-y-bŵl where his parents lived and where he spent most of his life. From this primary school he entered Mill Street Secondary Modern school and he began to play darts as a schoolboy. His
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron Rhydderch commissioned the scribes of Strata Florida, most likely, to compile the manuscript of prose tales and other texts which was known by the late sixteenth century, and probably earlier, as Llyfr Gwyn Rhydderch, 'The White Book of Rhydderch'. This important collection includes the earliest complete texts of The Mabinogi, How Culhwch Got Olwen, and five other tales of Welsh mythological, legendary
RHŶS, ELIZABETH (1841 - 1911), teacher, hostess and campaigner for women's rights and Rhŷs were married at Llanberis Parish Church. They settled in Rhyl, where Rhŷs was based as Her Majesty's Inspector for Flintshire and Denbighshire schools. Their first child, Gwladus, was born in May 1873, but died at Llanberis on 10 June 1874, before the birth of the second child, Myvanwy, on 1 August 1874, and a third daughter, Olwen, on 4 March 1876. When Rhŷs was appointed the first
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author David's). Their two daughters, Mair and Olwen, were born there in 1901 and 1903. In 1908 a permanent women's refuge was established for the Forward Movement in Cardiff. 'Mainly through the efforts of some of the women of our Movement, led by Mrs J. M. Saunders', says the Monthly Treasury, 'we decided to purchase more commodious premises at Kingswood, Canton, where we might carry on Rescue as well as
THOMAS, EVAN (Bardd Horeb; 1795 - 1867), poet and tailor Evan Thomas was the eldest son of Benjamin Thomas of Llandysul, who was the 8th son of Thomas Francis of Melin Pant Olwen on the banks of the river Cerdin and his wife (the daughter of the poet Ifan Tomos Rhys of Llanarth). He married Margaret Charles, daughter of H. Charles of Cwrt Manarorion, Llangeler, and grand-daughter of Jenkin Jones of Llwyn-rhyd-Owen. Although he lived for a time at
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1891 - 1958), under-secretary, Ministry of Housing and Local Government of the editors of Bro, 1954. In 1925 he married Mary Olwen Davies, Ynyshir, Rhondda and moved from Cymer in 1938 to 27 Maesycoed Road, The Heath, Cardiff. He died 20 April 1958.
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor be acknowledged that Morgan Watkins's thorough knowledge of the Anglo-Norman background sometimes enticed him to go to extremes and to overstate the French influences on native Welsh texts such as Culhwch ac Olwen. The French origin of a Welsh word must also be rejected (however plausible the phonetics) if its Celtic cognates reveal its native origin. But, nevertheless, it is probably true that the
WILLIAMS, LLYWELYN (1911 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and politician social freedom. Olwen Williams, former headmistress of the Welsh school at Llanelli, was Llywelyn's sister. The children were heavily influenced by the society at Capel Als (Congl.) and undoubtedly the fine preaching of the minister, Daniel John Davies, led two of them into the ministry. Llywelyn was educated at Stebonheath primary school and the boys' grammar school Llanelli. He went to the University

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