Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist team, published in 201l. She twice came close to winning the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod. Her entry for the Abergwaun National Eisteddfod in 1986 was published under the title Merch Morfydd. According to R. Geraint Gruffydd, one of the adjudicators, the work is 'an excellent autobiography … the writing is consistently lively and interesting and often thrilling.' Rhiannon Davies Jones
THOMAS, EDWARD (1925 - 1997), champion boxer and an outstanding boxing trainer and a public figure in the life of Merthyr Tydfil for his home town. He was married twice; a son Edward and daughter Lynne were born from the first marriage to Mwynwen Penry, and from his second marriage, Rhysian, Geraint and Delyth brought joy to the home. Eddie Thomas died at his home in Merthyr from cancer on 2 June 1997. The sculptor Peter Nicholas made a life-size statue, of bronze and stone, of him, in 1998 which was placed in Bethesda
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, opera singer Geraint Evans, comedian Harry Secombe, and broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. HTV delivered coverage of Prince Charles's investiture at Caernarfon in 1969. He was also involved in a number of cross-party organisations, like the charity, Shelter, he chaired the European Movement (1969-75), a National Committee for Electoral Reform, and was deputy chair of
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador Germany. His orders were to remain in Venezuela for the duration of the war. After the war, in 1919, he married Elizabeth Phillips of Trefaes Uchaf, Llangwyrfon, Ceredigion, and between 1920 and 1930 they had four children - Morfudd, Ceredig, Nest and Geraint. Despite travelling a great deal, his Welshness remained very important to Ifor Rees and he ensured his children were taught Welsh wherever the
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the
DAVIES, ALUN HERBERT (CREUNANT) (1927 - 2005), the first director of the Welsh Books Council Concordance to the Welsh Bible (Mynegair i'r Beibl Cymraeg Newydd) in 1998 and the interdenominational Welsh hymn-book (Caneuon Ffydd) in 2001. He received an honorary MA from the University of Wales in 1987 and was made a Fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth in 2004. In presenting him for the degree of MA, R. Geraint Gruffydd noted his substantial physical stature and cited the satirical magazine
JONES, ELIZABETH MAY WATKIN (1907 - 1965), teacher and campaigner competition at the National Eisteddfod held at Swansea in 1964. She won first prize and the praise of the judge Geraint Dyfnallt Owen (1908-1993), for 'entering directly into the society of a foreign country rather than wandering around the edges'. Even whilst she clearly delighted in 'my dear adopted country', Elizabeth did not forget the destiny of her native region on these journeys: on a visit to
DAFYDD AP GWILYM (c. 1315 - c. 1350), poet statement in his elegy to Dafydd that his life was not long, and the depictions of an aging poet in a few of Dafydd's poems do not necessarily contradict this, since they can be explained as the product of tongue-in-cheek comedy or vivid imagination. It is reasonable, therefore, to assume that Dafydd died about 1350, and to place the date of his birth around 1315, as R. Geraint Gruffydd proposed. But it
LLWYD, HUMPHREY (c. 1527 - 1568), antiquary and map-maker had received his B.A. in 1547 and thereafter had been a commoner of Brasenose College where he received his M.A. in 1551. Wood's assertion that Llwyd studied medicine appears to be based on the existence of two translations of medical texts which were ascribed to Llwyd. However, as Professor R. Geraint Gruffydd points out, they are more likely to have been the work of Humphrey Lloyd of Leighton who
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet the appointment of her husband by Merioneth County Council. Gerallt's elder brother Geraint (born 1941) won the National Eisteddfod Crown in 2011 and was invested as Archdruid in 2016. Gerallt was educated in the village school referred to by Bob Lloyd (Llwyd o'r Bryn) as 'Hen Goleg Bach y Sarnau' (the little college of Sarnau), then at Bala Grammar School for Boys (Ysgol Tŷ Tan Domen) and Bangor
REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator . Two daughters, Muriel and Enid, born in Cardiff, were followed by two Aberystwyth-born sons, (Richard) Geraint, the Cambridge-educated lawyer, and two-and-a-half years later (Morgan) Goronwy Rees. 'Gony' within the family, 'Rees' to his own wife and children, the future author and journalist owed his first name to his uncle Morgan (R. J.'s younger brother), a medical doctor killed in the Somme
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic the neologisms of the time, and thus he made a practical contribution to the modernisation of the language. During his time at the BBC he worked with some of the pioneers of Welsh broadcasting such as Sam Jones, Geraint Dyfnallt Owen, Dafydd Gruffydd (the son of his former Welsh lecturer, W. J. Gruffydd), Elwyn Evans (who wrote the volume about him in the 'Writers of Wales' series in 1991), and

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