Dictionary of Welsh Biography

OWEN, WILLIAM DAVID (1874 - 1925), lawyer and journalist solicitor at Rhosneigr and Llangefni. He died at Rhosneigr 4 November 1925, and was buried 7 November at Gwalchmai. He had married Gwendoline Empsell, who was editor of a women's journal. Owen's claim to inclusion in this work is his authorship of the remarkably vivid and popular romance Madam Wen (Wrexham, 1925).
PARROTT, HORACE IAN (1916 - 2012), teacher and composer honours, including the Harriet Cohen Musicology Medal in 1966. He also wrote works on music appreciation for young people: Pathways to Modern Music (1947) and A Guide to Musical Thought (1949); a volume, The Spiritual Pilgrims, on musical life at Gregynog in the days of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, and studies of the composers Edward Elgar, Peter Warlock and Cyril Scott. An autobiography
STEEGMAN, JOHN EDWARD HORATIO (1899 - 1966), author of books on art and architecture Gwendoline Davies bequest. He came to Wales as a specialist on British portraiture and his main contribution to the Museum was his survey of portraits in Welsh houses. His Survey of portraits in North Wales houses (1955) was published after he had left Wales; the survey of south Wales was completed by R.L. Charles and published in 1961. He published a number of articles and other books on art, including
TRUBSHAW, Dame GWENDOLINE JOYCE (1887 - 1954), public administrator and social worker; baptised 1 April 1887, daughter of Ernest and Lucy Trubshaw, Ael-y-bryn, Felin-foel, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. During World War I she was responsible for the recruitment of women for war service and took a deep interest in their welfare, particularly those working in armament factories. She was chairman of South-West Wales War Pensions Committee and received a C.B.E. in 1920 for her services as
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Thomas whose letters he published in Letters to Vernon Watkins (1957), he was at one with him only in his belief in the primacy of poetry. But not even when Dylan failed to turn up as best man on the occasion of his wedding in London in 1944 (to Gwendoline Mary Davies, of Harborne, Birmingham, a colleague of his in the Intelligence Service) would Vernon break the friendship. He had developed an
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic Raymond Williams was born on 31 August 1921 in Pandy, near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, the only child of Henry Joseph Williams, a railway signalman, and his wife Esther Gwendoline (née Bird). Aspects of his upbringing and the lives of his parents are conveyed in his first novel, Border Country (1960), most centrally the ways in which the General Strike and Lockout of 1926 exposed strains within a

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