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OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet Gerallt Lloyd Owen was born at Tŷ Uchaf, a farm in the parish of Llandderfel, Meirionethshire, on 6 November 1944, the second son of Henry Lloyd Owen (1906-1982), farmer and Pest Officer for Merioneth and Gwynedd, and Jane Ellen (Jin, 1905-1989), a teacher who also kept the village shop and post office at her original home, Broncaereini in Sarnau after the family had moved there in 1945 following
DAVIES, GLYNNE GERALLT (1916 - 1968), minister (Congl.) and poet
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar lectures on other subjects, including psychology, a discipline pioneered by the university, the influence of which can be traced in his subsequent poems and essays. Easter 1912 was spent travelling in Switzerland and it was here, in part, that he composed the awdl ('Y Mynydd') and the pryddest ('Gerallt Gymro') that won him both Chair and Crown at the Wrexham National Eisteddfod that year, gaining him
GERALLT GYMRO - see GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS

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