Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner the purchase of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co. from the International Mercantile Marine Co., an American firm, for seven million pounds in 1926-27. This was a very popular move because Kylsant was purchasing a British shipping line back from American control and he had little trouble in raising the money required. His new shipping line was renamed the White Star Line. In business, Kylsant was
PARRY, Sir DAVID HUGHES (1893 - 1973), lawyer, jurist, university administrator national life. Above all, Hughes Parry felt a particular obligation towards Wales, her language, culture and institutions. In a sense, he had taken upon himself the mantle of O. M. Edwards as one of Wales's guardians, showing an almost paternalistic responsibility for her welfare. A tall, lean and physically striking figure, his trademark mane of thick, backcombed white hair remained a distinctive
EVANS, EMYR ESTYN (1905 - 1989), geographer four sons David, Colin, Edwin, and Alun sharing their parents' enjoyment of weekend and holiday retreats to a white-washed cottage in the Mountains of Mourne. Like many of Fleure's students, Evans's academic interests focussed initially on relationships between prehistoric and proto-historic communities and their natural environment, and in 1931 he was awarded an MA (Wales) for a thesis entitled 'A
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress returned to How Green Was My Valley, not as the Welsh Mam this time, but rather as a surly, snobbish housekeeper (prod. Martin Lisemore, dir. Ronald Wilson for the BBC, 1975-6). For her enormous contribution to the arts she was awarded the OBE in 1968 and the white robes of the Gorsedd at the Cwm Rhymni National Eisteddfod in 1990, adopting the bardic name 'Rachel o'r Allt'. She received a BAFTA Cymru
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman maiden speech on 5 March, during the debate on the recent defence white paper. He spoke regularly in the House of Lords, particularly on youth services, sport and education; in a debate on 1 December 1965, he noted that universities gave more attention to the arts than the sciences: 'There still exists a kind of intellectual snobbery that pays greater respect to the man who misquotes Horace than the
HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor seen as controversial by many of his colleagues and his ability to cater to the needs of the Paiute people, whom he called 'his children', was regularly challenged. It was a difficult path, but his ability to reach the Paiutes in a way no other white man had to date was recognised by Bishop Lewis, Head of the Protestant Diocese of Nevada. He was greatly loved by the Paiutes he cared for. There was a
MORGAN, DYFNALLT (1917 - 1994), poet, literary critic and translator stand and refuse to bear arms. One of his earliest poems, Y Milwr Gwyn (The White Soldier), about the war memorial in Llanddewi Brefi, written when he was twenty one, bears eloquent witness to his opposition to militarism. He appeared in front of the South Wales Tribunal sitting in Aberystwyth in 1940 with some of his fellow students, such as Merfyn Turner, and his pacifist beliefs were recognised by
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar tradition of Welsh free-metre poetry, namely Carolau Richard White (1931), Llawysgrif Richard Morris o Gerddi… (1931), Canu Rhydd Cynnar (1932) and Hen Benillion (1940). Parry-Williams edited several further volumes of modern poetry and prose. His analysis of the craft of poetry, Elfennau Barddoniaeth (1935), does not always reflect his own subtler practice. He was a frequent adjudicator in the literary
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer a range of writers, including Dylan Thomas. Later publications included a further collection of short stories, Welsh Heirs (1977) and two books of translations of hen benillion, When the Rose-bush Brings Forth Apples (1980) and Honey on the Wormwood (1984). Glyn Jones was awarded the degree of D.Litt by the University of Wales in 1974, was awarded the White Robe of the Gorsedd in 1988, and in the
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director : White Collar. The BBC broadcast both plays. In 2017 Granton Street was revived on the south Wales stage by the Fluellen Theatre Company. The production included a performance at the Port Talbot school where Burton had taught. During the war Burton was a part-time Flight Lieutenant in the local Air Training Corps (ATC), for which he received an MBE (Mil). He also coached Richard Jenkins, spending long
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman have been aware that it was their well-connected editor who, for example, described dining with the Roosevelts at the White House. The paper provided a useful platform for her causes, most notably her Six Point Group, started in 1921. Its six-point charter aimed to make gender equality paramount. Its prescient programme provided a legal and social context for the Representation of the People Act
WYNN family Wynnstay, from that time until his dying day he continued to represent the county in Parliament, where he took an active part in the debates. There, too, Sir Watkin came to the fore as one of the chief supporters of the Stuart cause in 1745; while at home he was the leader of the ' Circle of the White Rose ' - the Jacobite club started by him about 1723, which used to meet regularly at Wynnstay and other

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