Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, JAMES IDWAL (1900 - 1982), headteacher and Labour politician schoolteacher in 1922 and was headmaster of Grange Secondary Modern School, Rhosllanerchrugog, from 1938 until 1954. He became a non-professional pastor with the Scotch Baptists in Wales in 1924. Jones joined the ILP as a young man. He contested the Denbigh division as a Labour candidate in the general election of 1951, and then captured Wrexham in a by-election held in March 1955 following the death of
TRUEMAN, Sir ARTHUR ELIJAH (1894 - 1956), Professor of geology considerable research on Jurassic stratigraphy and palaeontology was internationally acclaimed, but he is best remembered for his work on the Coal Measures of Britain and especially on the use of the non-marine lamelli-branchs. This work, The Coalfields of Great Britain (1954), made a considerable contribution to the development of both the exposed and concealed coalfields of Britain. He was interested in
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer his achievements in this field. In the second half of his life Wallace's biological interests were, in part, supplanted by social and 'non scientific' ones. He surprised his fellow-scientists by embracing beliefs that were, to the scientific establishment unacceptable or even absurd - socialism, phrenology, spiritualism, antivaccination, anti-militarism and others. He was particularly supportive of
REES, FLORENCE GWENDOLEN (1906 - 1994), helminthologist (one who studies worms, particularly parasitic ones), Professor of Zoology strategies of certain parasitic worms, which threw new light on the relationships of parasites to non-vertebrate hosts. A selection of her numerous published research papers, mainly in the Journal of Parasitology, earned her a DSc degree of the University of Wales in 1942 and promotion as Senior Lecturer (1946) and Reader (1966). In 1971 she was appointed Professor of Zoology following her election as a
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner for the women to travel on to Washington, and to the White House, to meet President Calvin Coolidge. It should be emphasised that the main aim of the journey and the petition was to make a connection between the women of Wales and the women of America. The meeting with the President was an informal one, since the organisers were at pains to stress that this was a non-political and non-partisan event
MORGAN family Llantarnam, despite a Protestant wife, and remained a non-juror after the Revolution of 1688. On his death (before 1727) the title lapsed.
EDWARDS family Stansty, honest, harmless, sweet disposition.' After the Restoration Edwards was presented by the churchwardens (including his brother David) for non-attendance at church. He added further to the estate till it embraced most of Stansty township and extended into that of Gwersyllt, but on the death, without children, of his great-great-grandson PETER EDWARDS (1783), it went to the Lloyds of Pengwern, and was
POWYS, JOHN COWPER (1872 - 1963), novelist, poet, literary critic and popular philosopher fiction like Up and Out (1957), Homer and the Aether (1959) and All or Nothing (1960). He learned Welsh and corresponded with many distinguished Welshmen of letters; his non-fictional writings about Wales and the Welsh were collected in Obstinate Cymric (1947).
ELLIS, THOMAS EDWARD (1859 - 1899), M.P. for Merioneth (1886-99) and chief Liberal whip (1894-5) , after a year as a non-collegiate student, he matriculated at New College, Oxford, where he was a member of the Essay Society; he also took an active share in social and political activities and served on the standing committee of the Oxford Union Society. He obtained a second class in the honours school of modern history in 1884, took his B.A. in 1885, and his M.A. in 1897. After a year as tutor in
THOMAS, JOSEPH MORGAN (1868 - 1955), minister (U) and Free Catholic, councillor and public figure enemy during the Boer War; and during World War I he published a pamphlet, The immortality of non-resistance and other sermons on the war. Although he was a modernist he warned against a narrow superficial modernism; his concept of education was to learn to think honestly, and he warned the authorities against glorifying scholarship at the expense of neglecting the crafts and manual work (cf. What is
MORGAN, TREFOR RICHARD (1914 - 1970), company director forebears being among those who established the cause in Croes-y-Parc, Peterston-super-Ely, and a great-grandfather ministered in the Baptist chapel in Penuel, Pentyrch. His sole education was at the local school, and completely non- Welsh as was usual at that time. In later life he tried to correct his lack of education through evening classes in Welsh and Welsh history. He could not take advantage of
KNIGHT, WILLIAM BRUCE (1785 - 1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator first dean of Llandaff after a vacancy of 700 years. As examining chaplain he was responsible for candidates for holy orders; for the training of literates in the seminaries, and the place of their ordination, for in those days of non-resident bishops candidates were often ordained in other dioceses by letters dimissory. He exercised a general supervision over the diocese and by his yearly visitations

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