Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet two years of compulsory military service, in the North Staffordshire Regiment, after which he began his career as a Welsh teacher in Ruabon School near Wrexham, moving later to be lecturer in Welsh at Yale Sixth Form College in the town itself, where he worked until his early retirement. He married Gwenda on 12 August 1958, and the couple made their home in Ruabon, where their two daughters, Nia and
REES, THOMAS IFOR (1890 - 1977), HM Ambassador minnau (J.R. Jimenez), with E.T. Griffiths, 1961; Illimani yn nhiroedd y gorllewin, 1964; Geiriau diddorol y Beibl, 1965, 1966; Y meirw ar y mynydd (Henri Troyat), gyda Rhiannon Davies, 1965; Y llyfryn poced gwyrdd a straeon eraill (Henri Troyat), 1967; Pan gwympodd y mynydd (F. Ramuz), with Gwenda Thompson, 1968; literary articles in various Welsh journals. Also (with E.T. Griffiths) translations of a
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor dishonesty, which accounts to some extent for the deep respect and affection in which he was held by his friends, and indeed by all who knew him. He married Gwenda, daughter of John Evans, minister, of Abercarn, in 1909. They had separated several years before his death. They had one son. Gruffydd died 29 September 1954.

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