Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer novel of ideas, especially about the relation of art (and by implication writing) to the wider world. Trystan and his university friend, Gwydion, can be seen as two aspects of their creator. Gwydion, who has a fascination with words, a subtheme of the novel, has a profoundly bleak view of human existence, having travelled in some of the world's grimmer regions and seen squalor and suffering; for him
ELDRIDGE, MILDRED ELSIE (1909 - 1991), artist first collection The Stones of the Field, 1942 (the jacket of which was drawn by Eldridge). After two years (1940-42) at Tallarn Green (in what was then Flintshire), where R. S. Thomas was curate-in-charge at St Mary Magdalene's Church, the couple moved to Manafon in Montgomeryshire, where Thomas became rector at St Michael's. Their only child, Gwydion Andreas (1945-2016) was born there. Eldridge
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman inscrutable, relationship that lasted until her death in 1991 and produced one son, Gwydion (1945-2016), whose ignorance of Welsh and education at a prestigious English public school was just one instance of the many puzzling inconsistencies that riddled Thomas's practice throughout his controversial life. A recurrent trait was his rather snobbish attraction to the distinctively English social markers he

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