Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKINS, THOMAS ARWYN (1924 - 2003), Welsh scholar T. Arwyn Watkins was born 20 June 1924 in Llansamlet, a village on the outskirts of Swansea which was at that time largely Welsh-speaking, one of the two sons of David John Watkins, mine worker, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth. He was educated at Bishop Gore grammar school in Swansea, 1935-1941, and then at Swanseaa University College where he read English, French and Welsh. He took his degree in
UNGOED-THOMAS, (ARWYN) LYNN (1904 - 1972), Labour politician
JENKINS, DAVID ARWYN (1911 - 2012), barrister and historian of Welsh law
HARRIES, HYWEL (1921 - 1990), art teacher, artist, cartoonist he obtained his diploma in 1947. He was art master in a school in Ealing for a year in 1948 and he married Caroline Thomas of Pontypridd the same year: they had two children, David who died young, and Carol. He returned to Wales as art master at Machynlleth secondary school in 1950 and in 1954 he became head of the art department in Arwyn grammar school, Aberystwyth, and then, following local
JONES, ALAN TREVOR (1901 - 1979), health service administrator and Provost, Welsh National School of Medicine , hoping eventually to obtain a position on the consultant staff of a hospital in Wales, Trevor Jones took the position of medical superintendent of the Swansea General Hospital where he combined clinical and administrative duties. After little more than a year he moved to Carmarthen to join a busy general practice headed by Dr Arwyn Davies, whose wife was Trevor Jones's mother's older sister. This

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