Dictionary of Welsh Biography

LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic the neologisms of the time, and thus he made a practical contribution to the modernisation of the language. During his time at the BBC he worked with some of the pioneers of Welsh broadcasting such as Sam Jones, Geraint Dyfnallt Owen, Dafydd Gruffydd (the son of his former Welsh lecturer, W. J. Gruffydd), Elwyn Evans (who wrote the volume about him in the 'Writers of Wales' series in 1991), and
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Lloyd, but died s.p. For Morgan's use of Tremellius's Old Testament and his methods as a translator see Isaac Thomas, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1988) and Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1976). For Morgan's status as a scholar see also R. Geraint Gruffydd, ' The Translating of the Bible into the Welsh Tongue,' 1988.
MORGAN, WILLIAM GERAINT OLIVER (1920 - 1995), Conservative politician
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, opera singer Geraint Evans, comedian Harry Secombe, and broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. HTV delivered coverage of Prince Charles's investiture at Caernarfon in 1969. He was also involved in a number of cross-party organisations, like the charity, Shelter, he chaired the European Movement (1969-75), a National Committee for Electoral Reform, and was deputy chair of
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet the appointment of her husband by Merioneth County Council. Gerallt's elder brother Geraint (born 1941) won the National Eisteddfod Crown in 2011 and was invested as Archdruid in 2016. Gerallt was educated in the village school referred to by Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) as 'Hen Goleg Bach y Sarnau' (the little college of Sarnau), then at Bala Grammar School for Boys (Ysgol Tŷ Tan Domen) and Bangor
PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar Meirion Pennar, the eldest of the five children of W. T. Pennar Davies and his wife Rosmarie (née Wolff), was born in Cardiff 24 December 1944. Geraint, Hywel and Owain were his brothers, Rhiannon was his sister. His mother was born in Detmold, Germany but because of her Jewish ancestry, she was forced to flee from the family home in Berlin, where her father was a family doctor, before World War
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
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador Germany. His orders were to remain in Venezuela for the duration of the war. After the war, in 1919, he married Elizabeth Phillips of Trefaes Uchaf, Llangwyrfon, Ceredigion, and between 1920 and 1930 they had four children - Morfudd, Ceredig, Nest and Geraint. Despite travelling a great deal, his Welshness remained very important to Ifor Rees and he ensured his children were taught Welsh wherever the
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron him to Solomon, but also to numerous characters from traditional tales and triads: Arthur, Cai, Caw, Garwy Hir, Meirion, Bedwyr, Llŷr, Geraint, and Rholant (the French hero Roland). Such a list surely reflects Rhydderch's interest in and familiarity with the Welsh narrative tradition, especially as preserved in the famous manuscript that bears his name. Around the middle of the fourteenth century
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
THOMAS, EDWARD (1925 - 1997), champion boxer and an outstanding boxing trainer and a public figure in the life of Merthyr Tydfil for his home town. He was married twice; a son Edward and daughter Lynne were born from the first marriage to Mwynwen Penry, and from his second marriage, Rhysian, Geraint and Delyth brought joy to the home. Eddie Thomas died at his home in Merthyr from cancer on 2 June 1997. The sculptor Peter Nicholas made a life-size statue, of bronze and stone, of him, in 1998 which was placed in Bethesda

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