Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer conductor Geraint Jones, who engaged her for BBC programmes of Bach's music. She sang Bach arias at the Proms in 1955 and became closely identified with the music of Bach and Handel, making a large number of recordings, including four complete versions of Handel's Messiah and three of Bach's Magnificat. Her recordings were widely praised and earned her the respect of the critics, and she won a Grand Prix
JAMES, DAVID (Defynnog; 1865 - 1928), schoolmaster, educationist, organiser of summer schools, and author three daughters. They had one son, David Geraint.
LOVELAND, KENNETH (1915 - 1998), journalist and music critic Welsh composers - especially Daniel Jones, William Mathias and Alun Hoddinot. He also (probably with justification) claimed to have given the first press recognition to outstanding singers such as Geraint Evans, Gwyneth Jones and Margaret Price. Such advocacy might have been dismissed as the parochialism of a local reporter, but this never applied to Loveland, uprightly Home Counties to the core and
ROBERTS, IEUAN WYN PRITCHARD (1930 - 2013), journalist and politician on programmes such as Camau Cyntaf and Croeso Christine. TWW, however, lost its license to Harlech (HTV) in 1968, and Roberts's distaste for the switch led him to pursue an alternative career in politics. He married Enid Grace Williams in 1956, and they had three sons, Geraint, Rhys (d. 2004) and Huw. In 1970 Roberts was elected MP for the seat of Conwy under the Conservative Party, a choice which
MORGAN, WILLIAM (c. 1545 - 1604), bishop, and translator of the Bible into Welsh Lloyd, but died s.p. For Morgan's use of Tremellius's Old Testament and his methods as a translator see Isaac Thomas, Yr Hen Destament Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1988) and Y Testament Newydd Cymraeg, 1551-1620 (1976). For Morgan's status as a scholar see also R. Geraint Gruffydd, ' The Translating of the Bible into the Welsh Tongue,' 1988.
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician candidate selection between Beata Brookes, Geraint Morgan, sitting MP for Denbigh, and Sir Anthony Meyer, sitting MP for West Flint. Brookes was a popular candidate with the support of local Conservative activists, and she won the selection vote in March 1983. However, Meyer eventually won this contest in May after the previous decision was reversed in the courts. Brookes held the North Wales seat in the
DAVIES, JOHN HAYDN (1905 - 1991), teacher and choirmaster main purpose. The family home was initially in Scott Street, then at 'Gwynant', Dumfries St., Treherbert. He married Olwen Williams, the daughter of Uriel Roger Williams, a shopkeeper, in Porth in January 1942; the couple had two children, Susan and Geraint. He worshipped at the Blaencwm Welsh Chapel, Tynewydd, and was its secretary for more than forty years. He was awarded the MBE for services to
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman George twice defeated him. At the 1966 general election he came second at Denbigh to Geraint Morgan, the sitting Conservative MP. He chaired the Welsh Liberals 1963-1966. Alun Talfan Davies was strongly in favour of devolution, and a motion proposed by him supporting Welsh devolution was passed at the 1958 Liberal conference in Torquay. From 1969 to 1973 he sat on the Royal Commission on the
HUGHES, HUGH JOHN (1912 - 1978), schoolteacher, author, editor and reviewer to the Meironeth Education Committee for producing Atlas Meirionydd (1974) under the editorship of Geraint Bowen. He was became an 'Honorary Member' of the Gorsedd of Bards (Druidic Order) at the National Eisteddfod, Bala, 1967. He was a member of the Council of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, from 1967 until his death. He held popular evening classes in Ardudwy on the cynganeddion
WILLIAMS, JOHN ELLIS CAERWYN (1912 - 1999), Welsh and Celtic scholar Academy in 1978 (gaining the Academy's Derek Allen Prize in 1985); in 1990 he was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Two Festschriften were presented to him (the latter of the two posthumously): Bardos (ed. R. Geraint Gruffydd, 1982) and Cyfoeth y Testun (ed. I. Daniel et al., 2003). Caerwyn Williams was undoubtedly one of the world's foremost Celtic scholars during the second half of
RHYDDERCH AB IEUAN LLWYD (c. 1325 - before 1399?), lawman and literary patron him to Solomon, but also to numerous characters from traditional tales and triads: Arthur, Cai, Caw, Garwy Hir, Meirion, Bedwyr, Llŷr, Geraint, and Rholant (the French hero Roland). Such a list surely reflects Rhydderch's interest in and familiarity with the Welsh narrative tradition, especially as preserved in the famous manuscript that bears his name. Around the middle of the fourteenth century
DAVIES, WINDSOR (1930 - 2019), actor , and Rottcodd in Gormenghast. In 1988, he joined an all-star Welsh cast to record Under Milk Wood. The cast was led by Sir Anthony Hopkins, and included Sir Geraint Evans, Dame Sian Phillips, Sir Harry Secombe and Philip Madoc. Davies played 1st drowned, PC Atilla Rees and the Fisherman. Davies is remembered for his distinctive round-toned purring Welsh voice, which he never hid, and used to great

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