Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DONNELLY, DESMOND LOUIS (1920 - 1974), politician and writer -Severn, Gloucestershire, and Bembridge School on the Isle-of-Wight. He was much influenced by the ideas of William Morris and joined the Labour League of Youth while still in his teens. He left school in 1938 and worked as an office-boy at London. In his youth he was also a keen player of cricket and rugby football. He became secretary of the London Grasshoppers Rugby Club on leaving school. At the age
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru ). He initiated the Urdd annual eisteddfod in 1929; athletic meetings in 1932; pleasure cruises in 1933; a camp for those learning the Welsh language and a football league to play for the Urdd cup in 1941; an international camp in 1948 and a Celtic camp in 1949. That year Pantyfedwen, Borth, Cardiganshire. was opened as a residential centre and thousands of young people and adults attended many kinds
EVANS, DAVID THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Baron Evans of Claughton), (1928 - 1992), solicitor and politician distinctive sideburns and his heavy black glasses. He had a strong and deep speaking voice and made his mark on the House of Lords, both in the chamber and in the social life. A hard worker, Evans enjoyed fine food and fine wines, and he was also passionate about sport: cricket, football, golf and rugby. Sport, however, was not allowed to interfere with political principles; he resigned from the presidency
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player for a company of accountants in London. In 1939, when the war broke out, he volunteered for the Armed Forces. In addition to his duties as an aircraft navigator, he had the opportunity to play some rugby and football while serving in the RAF. As a member of the Bomber Command Squadron he was watched by Wolverhampton Wanderers for a while, and he was invited for trials at Molyneux under the famous
GOULD, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1864 - 1919), Rugby footballer Born at Newport, Monmouthshire, 10 October 1864. One of a family of athletes and footballers, he was in first class football from 1882 till 1898, playing his first game for Newport, as a fullback, at the age of sixteen. He played in the Newport XV for three seasons as a full-back, and it was in that position he got his first ' cap ' for Wales. But it was as a centre three-quarter that he became
GRIFFITHS, EDWARD (1929 - 1995), industrial chemist and Member of Parliament preach at a harvest festival in Suffolk towards the end of August 1974. A keen football supporter, Griffiths and Money attended a match between Ipswich Town and Sheffield United; both men went to a formal occasion in the evening. The news that Griffiths was socialising with a Conservative was brought back to Sheffield by returning football supporters and provided ammunition for the left-wing activists
GRIFFITHS, JAMES (JEREMIAH) (1890 - 1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister reminiscences One Woman's Story (1979). They lived at first at various places within in the anthracite coalfield, but moved to Putney Heath in 1945. They had two sons and two daughters. He became a PC in 1945, and was appointed CH in 1966. He was also awarded the degree of Ll.D. honoris causa by the University of Wales in 1946. He read widely, both literature and history, and followed rugby football. He could
GWYNNE family Kilvey . Educated at Swansea Grammar School and St. John's Hall, Highbury. Curate of St. Chad's, Derby, 1886-89, and St. Andrew's, Nottingham, 1889-92. While at Derby he played for Derby County Football Club, the only amateur in the team. Vicar of Emmanuel, Nottingham, 1892-99. In the latter year he went as a missionary to the Sudan, working for the C.M.S. In 1908 he became the first suffragan Bishop of Khartoum
HUGHES, ROYSTON JOHN (BARON ISLWYN), (1925 - 2003), politician , Abergavenny, on 19 December 2003; his parish church, St Teilo, was small and the funeral was held at St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny on 5 January 2004, followed by cremation at Croesyceiliog. Many in the congregation wore Newport Rugby Football Club ties to mark his great support for that club and his passion for the game. He left an estate of £665,787.
ILLINGWORTH, LESLIE GILBERT (1902 - 1979), political cartoonist draw sketches and sporting cartoons for its sister publication the Football Express. When J. M. Staniforth, venerated as 'the Welsh Tenniel', died in 1921 Illingworth took over as the Western Mail's political cartoonist, and worked on and off for the Mail until 1927. Although as a young man he held socialist views, reading Marx and Engels, he was reconciled to drawing to the Mail's political line
JAMES, DAVID (1863 - 1929), Rugby football players brothers who were the most brilliant pair of half-backs of their day and rendered invaluable service to Welsh Rugby football. They were the great initiators of the half-back tactics which were developed and improved by R. M. Owen, Richard Jones, and W. J. Trew. In 1892 they went North and became professionals. They later returned to Wales, were reinstated, and subsequently figured in the Swansea
JENKINS, THOMAS JOHN PRICE (1864 - 1922), physician; Wales and London-Welsh Rugby centre three-quarter, and founder of the London-Welsh Football Club Born 1864, son of Dr. Jenkins, rector of Llan-llwch and vicar of Llan-gain, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Llandovery, Cambridge University, and S. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Jenkins was considered among the best of Welsh international three-quarters in his day, but he was known chiefly for his work in founding the London-Welsh Football Club, having previously played for a Rhondda club

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