Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, DANIEL JENKYN (1912 - 1993), composer friend of Dylan Thomas. The two remained close friends until Dylan's death in 1953; Jones edited a complete edition of Thomas's poems, and recorded his recollections of the poet in his volume My Friend Dylan Thomas (1977). The two of them belonged to a cultural circle in Swansea which included the artist Alfred Janes and the poet Vernon Watkins. Jones went to University College Swansea and graduated in
LEVY, MERVYN MONTAGUE (1914 - 1996), writer and broadcaster on the visual arts Mervyn Levy was born in Swansea on 11 February 1914 of Jewish heritage, one of the three children of Louis Levy and Have Levy (née Rubenstein). He grew up in comfortable circumstances among the talented Swansea generation that included Alfred Janes, Daniel Jones and Dylan Thomas. In the early 1930s, they would frequent the Kardomah Café, together with Vernon Watkins, Charles Fisher and others
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English master at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer Dylan Thomas was born at 5, Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, on 27 October 1914. He was the son of David John Thomas (1876-1952) and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams, 1882-1958), who came from rural Welsh-speaking families in north and south west Carmarthenshire respectively. The parents spoke Welsh to each other, but the father (a First Class Honours English graduate of the University College
SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts the home of his ancestors. He also spent some time at Llanina, Cardiganshire. Besides being a patron of dramatists (in Wales and London) and musicians, e.g. his association with Josef Holbrooke in the production of The Children of Don and Dylan, he was himself a writer, the Arthurian cycle giving him the subject of his first play, and, later, the folklore of Wales providing him with material for
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher broadcasting, and at the end of the war he joined the staff of the BBC in Cardiff. He produced several radio talks by Dylan Thomas, providing the poet with some much-needed income. Some of those talks are included in Quite Early One Morning (1944). He was a personal friend of Dylan Thomas, and in his book Dylan: Druid of the Broken Body (1964), he maintained that Dylan was essentially a religious poet
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Christian view developed, successively from his earlier Romantic pagansim), that all are immortal because all are 'justified' and that the present moment must be seen as the microcosm of all moments, past and future. Vernon Watkins went on to become one of the very few metaphysical poets of the twentieth century and probably the most distinguished. Overshadowed in his lifetime by his meteoric friend Dylan
JONES, THOMAS HENRY (1921 - 1965), lecturer and poet enemy in the heart (1957), Songs of a mad prince (1960) and The beast at the door (1963); a critical study of Dylan Thomas (1963); and was editor of an Australian journal of studies in American literature. He demonstrated a mastery of language and developed his particular talent in poems which were appreciated in Australia and beyond. Both his war-time experience of losing friends at sea and the hard
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer houses, and though he was most comfortable in Italian romantic opera, he sang some of the more challenging roles in twentieth-century repertoire with consummate ease. He worked well in several television genres, with roles such as Bosun in the 1966 television production of Britten's Billy Budd, Blind Captain Cat in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, and in Elaine Morgan's famous 1978 television adaptation
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author in the organisation of Burnley's celebration of International Women's Day. She also joined the Communist Party, a fact which, later in life, having rejoined the Labour Party, she kept carefully hidden for professional reasons. It was whilst living in Burnley that the first of Elaine Morgan's children, John Dylan (1946-2011) was born. A second child, Gareth, followed in 1949. But for the onset of

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