Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer the city centre (adjacent to what is now Cardiff Central railway station), his pupils lived in some of the worst slums in Cardiff. Moreover, not only did they come to school ill-fed and ill-clothed, often bare-foot even in winter, but the area was also one of lawlessness and vice; many of the children, Jones knew, experienced abuse, physical and sexual. What he saw in the shabby streets around him
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' (now dead) as M.P. for Merioneth. The outbreak of the second Civil War brought him back into the field in June 1648, when he helped to prevent the surprise of Denbigh castle (4 July) and to effect a second reduction of Anglesey (2 October). Back at Westminster he attended regularly the 'court of justice' which tried Charles I (whom he held responsible for the Irish massacres of 1641), signed the
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author coauthored with ornithologist James Fisher (1912-1970) a comprehensive account of the Seabirds of the north Atlantic, within the highly regarded New Naturalist book series. In 1962 the Lockley family left Orielton due to the cost of maintenance, selling it to the Field Studies Council. Early in 1964 Ronald and Jill were divorced. In the same year Ronald, now in his early 60s, married Jean St Lawrence (1909
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician from now on. Legally therefore, Angus and Martha's relationship should have ended but it was soon evident that it had not. On her return to Salt Lake City in 1888, Martha had embarked on a new career. She had established a training college for nurses, the first in Utah. But no sooner had she embarked on her new career than she had to abandon it. Once again, she was pregnant. Once again, to protect
LLOYD-JONES, DAVID MARTYN (1899 - 1981), minister and theologian his friends: 'Speak Welsh to me - I'm a Welshman now!' Martyn was educated at Llangeitho Primary School and Tregaron County School. He and his brothers lodged at Tregaron from Monday evening until Friday morning because the school was almost five miles from their home. He recalls in his reminiscences that he was very homesick at this time, adding that 'Tregaron, for me still today, is the coldest
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist probably the most famous lines he ever wrote. Wales is likened to a vineyard passed on as an inheritance from generation to generation but which is now threatened by a herd of swine. Emrys calls on his fellow Welshmen to withstand them: 'Sefwch gyda mi yn y bwlch, / Fel y cadwer i'r oesoedd a ddêl y glendid a fu' ('Stand with me in the breach, so that the splendour of the past may be preserved for the
GROSSMAN, YEHUDIT ANASTASIA (1919 - 2011), Jewish patriot and author word that was not Hebrew'. Ben-Yehuda earnestly believed in the power of Hebrew to ensure the renewal of the Jewish race, a people who had lost their language upon being scattered to the four corners of the earth. Now known under the name Judith Maro, Yehudit contributed extensively to the debate about the future of the Welsh language and of the Welsh nation, through essays published in various
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar Llansilin, together with many other rare books from the 17th and 18th centuries. G.J. Williams's library and papers, together with his shelves, cupboards and desk are now in the National Library. A list of his publications can be found in Agweddau ar hanes dysg Gymraeg, ed. Aneirin Lewis, Cardiff, 1969, 279-86.
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician secretary of the constituency Labour Party, Bill Headon. Callaghan won the nomination against George Thomas by a single vote - because he wore his navy uniform for the interview according to Thomas. Cardiff South had been a Conservative seat since 1918, except a brief period when Arthur Henderson won it for Labour in 1929-31, but in the 1945 election James Callaghan (as he was now known) took the seat
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, backer of the victorious John Edwards, in association with his father-in-law Roger Puleston of Emral. He spent most of 1595-8 campaigning (as captain of Denbighshire levies) in Ireland, where he was knighted by the lord-deputy in May 1597. He now shared with his three brothers (below) the patronage of lord admiral Howard of Effingham, who made him his vice-admiral in North Wales (c. 1596) and

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