Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS-JONES, Sir JOHN (MORRIS) (1864 - 1929), scholar, poet, and critic Born 17 October 1864 at Trefor, Llandrygarn, Anglesey. In 1868 his family moved to Llanfair-pwll, where he received his elementary education, proceeding in 1876 to Friars School, Bangor. When the headmaster, Daniel Lewis Lloyd was appointed to Christ College, Brecon, in 1879, Morris-Jones accompanied him. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, as a scholar, in 1883, and graduated with
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer sequence showing the re-lighting of the blast furnaces in Brymbo steelworks. Ironically an economic upturn spelled the end of the Wrexham Star as their sales force obtained regular employment. The paper amalgamated with the Wrexham Advertiser in March 1936. Geoff was now a competent photographer to the extent that Woodall's Managing Director Rowland Thomas offered him management of their photographic
HARRIES, JOHN (c.1785 - 1839), astrologer and medical practitioner fellow deceivers in England.' In 1889, John Rowland ('Giraldus') observed that Dr. Harries was 'a conjurer, fortune-teller, and quack doctor … He gulled the credulous for many years and reaped a bountiful harvest.' (Carmarthenshire Notes, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Curious, I (1889), p.29) The family had a substantial library of books and manuscripts in Greek, Latin, English and French at Pantycoy
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter Born 3 January 1904, one of the eleven children of Morgan and Rachel Roberts. His father was a native of the parish of Llanfihangel Aberbythych, Towy Valley, the son of Sarah and Daniel Roberts, whilst his mother's roots were in the Llandyfân, Trap and Carreg Cennen area of Carmarthenshire, although she was brought up at Wernos, near Ammanford, the daughter of Ann and William Vaughan, the butcher
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician same year), and graduated First Class LL.B 1964, MA 1965. He married Pauline Clarke on 11 August 1962, whilst still a student, and they had two daughters, Martha (born 1973) and Emma (born 1976), and a son Daniel (born 1981). That marriage ended in divorce, and he married fellow-barrister Veena Maya Russell on 19 August 1994, with whom he had a daughter, Imogen Russell Williams. After spending a year
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Roberts, who served his six months sentence in Cardiff Prison. He stood as a Communist candidate in the District Council elections in Abertridwr in 1932 and 1933 and he was close to success in 1934. By 1935 he used effectively his soap box from one street to another and finally gained victory over Daniel Walter Thomas, the Labour Party candidate. For the next eighteen years he served as a hard working
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure , three kilometres from Aberhosan as the location gave an excellent view of the landscape towards the mountains of Gwynedd. A celebration of his life, led by his son, Emyr Daniel, and others, was held on Friday, 27 November 2009 in his adopted town of Fishguard.
THOMAS, BENJAMIN BOWEN (1899 - 1977), adult educator and civil servant founder of Coleg Harlech. In a Memorial Address at Bethel, Aberystwyth, on 2 November 1977, Sir Goronwy Daniel recalled: 'He never forced his own appreciation of the truth on others but he listened to all and understood them, and then he used his great gifts to secure that agreement which permitted the greatest possible progress to be made … It is not surprising that after seeing his contribution as
LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister president of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Baptist Association in 1946-47 and the subject of his address was, ' Yr hyn a erys '. Politically, he was at first a Liberal, but at the general election of December 1923, he turned publicly to the Labour Party, becoming a pioneer of the movement in the town and thereafter a close friend of Daniel Hopkin (1886 - 1951) who in May 1929 was elected as Member of
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler in securing the original verdict, felt a particular interest in seeing the back of Frances: the 'precious cargo' among 'the Fflint convicts' whom his acquaintance, judge Daines Barrington mentioned in a letter dated 25 January 1786 was no doubt a reference to her. Eventually, the time came for Frances to be conveyed to Portsmouth, bound in irons and escorted by guards Joseph Simon and Daniel Jones
MORGAN, THOMAS JOHN (1907 - 1986), Welsh scholar and writer well as his work on linguistics T. J. Morgan published extensively on literary topics, especially Daniel Owen, T. Gwynn Jones, T. H. Parry-Williams, and more analytically on literary stylistics, e.g.of the cywydd and awdl (1946-47), Welsh prose (1948) and the poets of the princes (1950); a number of his articles were collected in Ysgrifau Llenyddol (1951). His articles, reviews and adjudications are
McLUCAS, CLIFFORD (1945 - 2002), artist and theatre director pool and depicted the drowning of Capel Celyn. This was juxtaposed with a retelling of Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe, much of the action presented as a split-screen narrative with filming above and below water. The company returned to West Wales in 1995 to work on a site-specific theatre production, Tri Bywyd. Taking as its location an abandoned farm in the middle of a forestry plantation near

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