Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LEWIS (fl. first half of the 20th century) south Wales, pioneer of the art of Cerdd Dant Born at Pontyberem, Gwendraeth Valley, Carmarthenshire, 30 May 1877, the eldest of nine sons of William Thomas, a collier, and his wife, Jane. Lewis worked in the mines for a short period before being apprenticed and gaining his trade as a local shoemaker. In 1905 he married Mary Emiah Jones, a teacher at Pontyberem, but originally from Llan-non, Llanelli. They had a son and two daughters. His
ANTHONY, DAVID BRYNMOR (1886 - 1966), school teacher and academic administrator Born 28 October 1886 at Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, the second son of John Gwendraeth Anthony and Mary (née Harris), his wife. The father was a provision merchant, general draper and outfitter at Paris House, Kidwelly. David Brynmor attended the local Castle School before going to the county intermediate school at Llanelli. Entering University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in October 1905 he
HARRIES, HYWEL (1921 - 1990), art teacher, artist, cartoonist Hywel Harries was born in Tumble, Carmarthenshire, 7 October 1921, the son of David John Harries and his wife Sarah Ann. He was educated locally and at Gwendraeth grammar school. He showed his artistic talent early and went to Llanelli Art School but he joined the RAF at the start of World War 2 in 1941 and served for five years. On his relaease in 1946 he attended Cardiff Technical College where
WILLIAMS, CYRIL GLYNDWR (1921 - 2004), theologian Gwendraeth Valley Grammar School, he proceeded to the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff where he read for a degree in Hebrew before training for the Congregational ministry at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, taking the degree of BD. Having begun preaching at the age of fifteen, he was ordained at the Tabernacle Church, Pontycymer, in 1944, moving to pastor the Radnor Walk
JAMES, CARWYN REES (1929 - 1983), teacher, rugby player and coach to the Carmarthenshire coalfield at the beginning of the 1920s. The family continued to live in Rhydlewis until 1927 when Dewi was born and the family moved to live in Rose Villa, Cefneithin. Carwyn, therefore, was the only one born south of the river Teifi. He attended the village primary school fifty yards from his home, and went on to secondary school at Ysgol y Gwendraeth two miles away. Rugby

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