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DAVIES, JOHN (1882 - 1937), secretary of the South Wales District of the W.E.A., 1919-1937 . He was often called upon to speak at the society at Capel Gwynfil, and his talks were always polished. He had returned to the Rhondda by 1898 and the six-month coal strike of that year awakened in him an interest in social and industrial questions. He became a voracious reader and was later to claim that he was the first to read the Porth public library's copy of Das Kapital from cover to cover. By
EVANS, EVAN (1882 - 1965), businessman was a member of London County Council 1931-34 and was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1946. Elected an alderman in 1932, he served as secretary of Jewin (Presb.) Church from 1938 until his death, and was moderator of the Association in the South, 1961-62. He contributed towards the cost of publishing the book by Tom Beynon on Howel Harris in London. Under the bardic name 'Ifan Gwynfil
HOPKINS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1897 - 1981), farmer and poet Alun Jones y Cilie, Evan Jenkins and Dafydd Jones from Ffair Rhos, T. Llew Jones, John Roderick Rees, Gwynfil Rees, Pennant, and Professor Gwyn Williams, Bethel, Mynydd Bach. B. T. Hopkins was reluctant to publish a volume of his poetry, but eventually gave in to persuasion from friends. Since he had not kept copies of his poems, Dyfnallt Morgan, T. Llew Jones and D. Ben Rees had to search for them
HUGHES GRIFFITHS, ANNIE JANE (1873 - 1942), peace campaigner . Despite the disappointment that the United States ultimately did not join the League of Nations, her enthusiasm for peace and humanitarian causes, all based on her strong Methodist upbringing, never waned. Annie Hughes Griffiths died at Neuadd Wen, Llanbadarn Road, Aberystwyth on 7 October 1942, at a time when the Second World War was raging. She was buried at Gwynfil chapel, Llangeitho, with her
REES, THOMAS (1862 - 1951), breeder of Welsh cobs Blaen-waun, a small farm in Penuwch, 1914-44, and to Bear's Hill, a smallholding nearby, in 1944. He died there on 15 January 1951 cared for by his grandson and grand-daughter, his wife having predeceased him in March 1936, shortly after celebrating their golden wedding. They are buried in the cemetery of Capel Gwynfil, Llangeitho. At the age of 18, in 1880, he started keeping a stallion, called
ROBERTS, ROBERT (1800 - 1878), schoolmaster and Calvinistic Methodist minister in memory, but it is generally agreed that he reached his highest level at funerals in the Llangeitho, Tregaron, and Llanddewibrefi districts. He was moderator of the South Wales Association in 1873-4. He married Catharine, daughter of Peter Davies, Y Glyn, in 1846, after her father's death, and they took up residence at Hendre-fawr in the parcel of Gwynfil. They had six daughters. He died 15 July
SAUNDERS, SARA MARIA (1864 - 1939), evangelist and author activities of Capel Gwynfil, her father being a head deacon and justice of the peace and her grandmother, when she became physically less able, supervizing the Sunday School classes from the Cwrt Mawr homestead. Under the influence of her family, especially her mother and grandmother who were strong religious presences with outgoing personalities, combined with her education in a public Methodist school in

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