Dictionary of Welsh Biography

PENNAR, ANDREAS MEIRION (1944 - 2010), poet and scholar Meirion Pennar, the eldest of the five children of W. T. Pennar Davies and his wife Rosmarie (née Wolff), was born in Cardiff 24 December 1944. Geraint, Hywel and Owain were his brothers, Rhiannon was his sister. His mother was born in Detmold, Germany but because of her Jewish ancestry, she was forced to flee from the family home in Berlin, where her father was a family doctor, before World War
GRIFFITHS, GRIFFITH PENNAR (1860 - 1918), Congregational minister
DAVIES, WILLIAM THOMAS (PENNAR) (1911 - 1996), novelist, poet, theologian and scholar Pennar Davies was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 12 November 1911, only son of Joseph and Annie (née Moss) Davies. He had three sisters. His father was a miner from the Rhondda Valley and his mother from the Anglicized part of Pembrokeshire, English was the language of the home. The family were poor, partly due to Joseph's mining injuries as well as to the depressed state of the industrial
DAVIES, DEWI ALED EIRUG (1922 - 1997), Congregationalist minister and professor of theology the relocation of the College to Aberystwyth, he succeeded W. T. Pennar Davies as Principal. He retired in 1988 and moved to Cardiff. He was the Chairman of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1990. He was a prolific author (as is revealed in the Bibliography compiled by his brother, Alun, for the volume Cofio Dewi Eirug), publishing and editing a number of substantial volumes. He was also the editor
JONES, REES JENKIN (1835 - 1924), Unitarian minister, schoolmaster, historian, and hymn-writer Jones were members of his classes. In 1879 he resumed his old duties in the pulpit of the Old Meeting House and at Trecynon seminary, popularly known as ' Jones's School '. There he had among his students Sir T. Marchant Williams, G. Pennar Griffiths, and T. Botting. He retired from the ministry in 1909. He married Anne Griffiths (died 7 March 1899), Aberdare, and they had five children. He edited Yr
POWELL, THOMAS (1779? - 1863), coal-owner Duffryn, and the Upper and Lower Cwm Pennar pits. Through the agency of John Nixon he secured a ready sale for his coal in France, but characteristically fell out with Nixon over the payment of commission. The increasing dominance of steam over sailing ships and the preference shown by the Admiralty for the South Wales smokeless steam coal provided Powell with rapidly expanding markets. He appreciated
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
EVANS, WILLIAM (1869 - 1948) Madagascar, minister (Congl.) and missionary . Jenkins, and he afterwards attended St. Helen's Road Board School, Swansea. He worked for a while as weigher at his father's mine before being apprenticed as a chemist. He began preaching under the ministry of G. Pennar Griffiths. He was a student in Watcyn Wyn's Gwynfryn School, Ammanford, and then went to Plymouth college (which later transferred to Bristol). He was accepted by the London Missionary
WILLIAMS, WATKIN HEZEKIAH (Watcyn Wyn; 1844 - 1905), schoolmaster, poet, and preacher health for years before he died on 19 November 1905. He was buried in Gellimanwydd cemetery, Ammanford. A monument to him was erected by his students in the Gwynfryn chapel, and a memorial volume was written by Pennar Griffiths. While Watcyn Wyn by no means achieved greatness as a poet, preacher, or scholar, his fund of witticisms, his sound common-sense, and his genial personality made him a well
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author the Christian faith and its Nonconformist expression. He persuaded authors like Tecwyn Lloyd, R. E. Jones, R. Tudur Jones, Pennar Davies, Gwynfor Evans, Cassie Davies and others, to publish through Ty John Penri books which were greatly appreciated by Welsh readers. He died July 13 1979, in Swansea, and was cremated in Morriston Crematorium. His ashes were interred in the cemetery nearby. On his
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian came under the influence of the Principal, Dr. Pennar Davies, and he began to learn Welsh. He gained the degree of BD in 1958; then with the help of a grant from the World Council of Churches he went as a research student to the University of Princeton, U.S.A. where he was awarded the degree of MTh. in 1959 for his thesis on the Church of South India. Whilst in the USA he visited the offices of the
LLOYD, Sir RICHARD (1606 - 1676) Esclus, royalist and judge , at Bangor), and also Lowe, The Heart of Northern Wales, ii, 437-40, and Gweithiau Gethin, 250, 253-4. He married in 1703, Anne, widow of Robert Pugh of Pennar or Pennard, Penmachno (a lawyer of Middle Temple), and left a daughter, another Anne, who married in 1730 Edward Williams of Meillionydd. Their daughter, yet another Anne, by her marriage to Robert Howell Vaughan (Griffith, op. cit., 201

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