Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Tabernacl chapel in Llandudno in January 1921. He married Margaret Jones of Llandudno on 1 October 1925, and they had a son, Hedd, in 1926 and a daughter, Gweirrul, in 1932. In November 1923 Valentine established a monthly paper for the Llandudno Welsh Baptists, Y Deyrnas ('The Kingdom', the same title as that of the pacifist journal edited by Thomas Rees during the war), and he was its editor until the
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar books such as Y Gwyddoniadur, Hanes y Brytaniaid a'r Cymru; Cannwyll y Cymry, Difyr-Gampau Twm Shon Cati and volumes that had been bound from issues of Cennad Hedd and Diwygiwr. His old teacher S.M. Powell maintained that the seed of the scholar that emerged later was planted during that year, when he was free of the burden of formal education. In 1911 he went to the University College of Wales
WILLIAMS, JOHN JAMES (1869 - 1954), minister (Congl.) and poet newydd yr Ysgol Sul (1930); he also assisted in preparing the Caniedydd (1960). It was he who edited the memorial volume to Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans), Cerddi'r Bugail (1918), and he was editor of ' Congl y Beirdd ' in Y Tyst, 1924-37, and Y Dysgedydd, 1933-36. He received an honorary M.A. degree from the University of Wales in 1930. He married (1), 1899, Claudia Bevan of Mountain Ash. She died

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