Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EVANS, TIMOTHY EDGAR (1912 - 2007), opera singer in the Metropolitan Police until 1942; then he began performing with CEMA and ENSA, travelling all over Britain and singing in over 500 concerts. When the Covent Garden Opera Company was formed in 1946 he was engaged as one of three principal tenors, and first came to prominence on 25 March 1947 when he deputised for Heddle Nash as Des Grieux in Massenet's opera Manon. From then until his
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer . His Covent Garden debut was in 1963, and in the same year he made his Glyndebourne debut as Nick in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. His US debut came in 1967 as Lescaut in Manon and Donner in Das Rheingold with the San Francisco Opera; these appearances may have been prompted by the influence of Geraint Evans, who performed there in seventeen successive seasons. By 1970 he was well established as
PUGH, WILLIAM JOHN (1892 - 1974), Director of Geological Survey of Great Britain contributions to the advancement, teaching and organization of geological sciences he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1951, and knighted in 1956. He married in London during summer 1919 Manon Clayton Davies Bryan (died 1973), second daughter of Joseph Davies Bryan, Alexandria, Egypt; they had four sons. He died 18 March 1974 at 171 Oakwood Court, Kensington, London.
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist , and also as a candidate for his party in east Rhondda in 1945, and west Rhondda in 1950 and 1951, shortly before he was taken ill. In 1940 he married a Tonypandy grammar school teacher, Mair Rees of Ffos-y-ffin, Aberaeron, and they made their home in Aeron, Brithweunydd, Trealaw, where their three daughters Megan, Mari and Manon were born. He enjoyed gardening, was good company, and read extensively

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