Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDWARDS, HUW THOMAS (1892 - 1970), trade unionist and politician politically active in Flintshire from the 1930s onwards, being elected a councillor and later an alderman on the county council. He was one of three local political leaders who dominated the politics of the county for many years - the other two being the Conservative Sir Geoffrey Summers and the Liberal Thomas Waterhouse. He was a staunch supporter of Flintshire's Director of Education, Haydn Williams and
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman permanent stranger, 'lost in his own breath', lacking all recognizable markers of identity, and of being an undistinguished peregrine soul of no great eternal consequence. The Echoes Return Slow (1988), one of his greatest and most puzzling volumes, was a hybrid text on the same self-exploratory themes, mixing succinct condensed prose with minimalist poetry - here Geoffrey Hill's Mercian Hymns was an
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge the Queen's Bench Division in October 1974. He was a presiding judge on the Wales & Chester Circuit from 1975 until his appointment to the Court of Appeal and to the Privy Council in 1980. He was the first chairman of the Judicial Studies Board (1979-80), the newly created body to train the judiciary. His appointment to the Court of Appeal coincided with the appointment of Geoffrey Lane, a close
GLYN, GEOFFREY (d. 1557), founder of Friars School, Bangor - see GLYN, WILLIAM

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