Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer traditional bardic community that existed in South Cardiganshire at that time. The Urdd also had its social benefits. It was there that Dic met Sylvia Jean (Sian) Jones (1938-) from near-by Parc-llyn. Over time their friendship blossomed into a life-long marriage which was blessed with six children, Delyth Wyn (1960-), Rhian Medi (1961-), Dafydd Dyfed (1963-), Brychan Llyr (1970-) and the twins, Trystan
JOHN, GEORGE (1918 - 1994), minister (Bapt) and college principal were born to them: Delyth Margaret and Carys Elisabeth. In 1971 he was appointed professor of New Testament Studies in the Baptist College in Bangor, succeeding D. Eirwyn Morgan as head of the College in 1980. He was elected President of the Baptist Association in Caernarfonshire in 1982. In 1984, he retired to live in Llandysul, but continued to lecture for a time in the University College of Wales
EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Flight Lieutenant in Iceland and Northern Ireland. He met his wife, Mary Ellen Williams (1919-1993), an RAF nurse from Tŷ Croes, Ammanford, in London. They married in 1944, and had three children, Eryl Cydwel (b. 1946), Erfyl Dilwyn (b. 1950), and Wyneira Delyth (b. 1955). Islwyn returned to Sheffield University in 1946 and completed a first class honours in applied science followed by a doctoral
DAVIES, JOHN (1938 - 2015), historian the Year' award for Cymru: Y 100 lle i'w gweld cyn marw ('Wales: A 100 places to see before you die', 2009), with photographs by Marian Delyth, a splendid guidebook to the land he loved. In 2013 he was the subject of the raw biographical documentary Gwirionedd y Galon ('The Heart's Truth') which won a Welsh BAFTA. And in the following year, a short while before his death, he published his
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
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress Howell 'Hywel' John Thomas (1901-1964), a farmer's son from Crai in Breconshire, who trained as a teacher and was the first headmaster of Whitchurch School, Cardiff. They settled in Tyle Coch, Y Goedwig, Rhiwbina, in 1933 and had one daughter, Delyth Mariel (1937-2006). Rachel Thomas was a faithful member, and deacon for a time, of Minny Street Independent Chapel in Cardiff, and it was there that she

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