Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, EDGAR (1912 - 1991), minister, pastor, scholar of a son, Gareth, and daughter, Valerie. Eirlys, his life partner who shared in all his work – she knew all his students and shared in his pastoral care for them – died in February 2006. Edgar Jones will be remembered for his enthusiasm in interpreting the scriptures for the ordinary members of his churches, his humanity and love for his family, his care for his students, his ready friendship for
EVANS, MALDWYN LEWIS (1937 - 2009), champion bowler his career as head of the middle school at Ferndale Comprehensive School. He and his brother Gwyn both served as deacons at Hebron Welsh Baptist Chapel, Ton Pentre. Following a protracted illness Mal Evans died at his home, Aelfryn, Upper Canning Street, Ton Pentre on 30 December 2009, aged 72 years, leaving a widow Mary (née Jones), whom he married in 1967, and who died in 2010, and a son Gareth
DAVIES, CATHERINE GLYN (1926 - 2007), historian of philosophy and linguistics, and translator philosophic relations between England and France in the later seventeenth century. She then studied in Somerville College, Oxford, and wrote 'The influence of John Locke on literature and thought in eighteenth century France: a study of Locke's influence on the development of the theory of knowledge in France between 1734 and 1748' (1954), a step on the way to her doctorate. There she met Gareth Alban
DAVIES, IFOR (1910 - 1982), Labour politician listening to classical music. He remained a chapel-goer throughout his life. He married on 15 August 1950 Doreen, the daughter of William Griffiths. They had two children. They lived at Ty Pentwyn, Three Crosses, Gower. Ifor Davies died on 6 June 1982. He was succeeded by Gareth Wardell as the Labour MP for the Gower constituency who was elected in the first by-election to be held in Wales during the
RHYS-WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH (1927 - 1988), Conservative politician death led to the first by-election of the 1987-92 parliament. His successor in the baronetcy was his son, Arthur Gareth Ludovic Emrys Rhys-Williams (born 9 November 1961).
ROBERTS, EVAN (1923 - 2007), research chemist and industrialist in particular Vitamin D3, a vital food supplement. He met his wife, Winifred Mary Gambold (1924-1987), a nurse from Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire at the London Welsh Club, and they married in February 1950, and went on to have four children, Gareth (b. 1952), Aled (b. 1953), Megan (b. 1955), and Eluned (b. 1960). In 1958 he became Chief Chemist at Peboc, and, in 1965, Director and General Manager
MORGAN, CLIFFORD (Cliff) ISAAC (1930 - 2013), rugby player, sports writer and broadcaster, media executive Barbarians v New Zealand game in Cardiff, and Morgan was called in as a last minute replacement. Without time to research the players taking part, and within a minute of the start, Morgan provided the commentary to arguably the greatest try ever scored in Rugby Union history - scored by Gareth Edwards - and certainly the most replayed passage of rugby of all time. In early 1973, Morgan was offered a staff
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
GRIFFITHS, DAVID ROBERT (1915 - 1990), Baptist minister and Biblical scholar writers in the Rhondda. In 1953, they published a volume of poetry entitled Cerddi Cadwgan. D. R. Griffiths contributed nineteen pieces to the volume which also contained the work of his brother, J. Gwyn Griffiths together with the work of Pennar Davies, Gareth Alban Davies and Rhydwen Williams. Most of D. R. Griffiths's poems in Cerddi Cadwgan were parodies or satires, while the later Defosiwn a
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar the twentieth century. He mastered all the Celtic languages and their literatures and published extensively on many of them. The bibliography of his works prepared by Mr Gareth O. Watts (in Bardos, 1982) and by Dr Huw Walters (in Y Traethodydd, CLIV, 1999) lists well over five hundred items. Here it must suffice merely to note the following titles: Traddodiad llenyddol Iwerddon [The literary
JONES, THOMAS PARRY (1935 - 2013), inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Halliwell, by whom he had three children, Diane, Gareth and Sara; the marriage was dissolved in 1986. In 1997 he married Rajkumari Williamson. Tom Parry Jones died on 11 January 2013 at Llandudno General Hospital after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. A funeral service was held at Capel Mawr, Menai Bridge, Anglesey on 18 January followed by cremation at Bangor Crematorium on the following day
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer two Emeritus Professors, namely Derec Llwyd Morgan and the late Hywel Teifi Edwards, Gareth Jones who was at that time Director of Education for Cardiganshire and Dr. Huw Walters, Head of the Bibliography of Wales Unit at the National Library of Wales. When Hywel Teifi Edwards was approached regarding the nomination his response was “My dear girl, where on earth have you been till now?”. However

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