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DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner Annie Evans (1904-1979) from Ystrad Rhondda. They were married in 1936 and set up home in Cardiff where their three daughters, Nia, Ethni and Lona, were born. The family attended Ebeneser Welsh Congregational Chapel where Gwyn Daniel was both a deacon and Sunday School teacher. In 1932, Gwyn Daniel and others were appointed teachers of Welsh in Cardiff and he taught in the Grange and Herbert Thompson
DAVIES, BRYAN MARTIN (1933 - 2015), teacher and poet two years of compulsory military service, in the North Staffordshire Regiment, after which he began his career as a Welsh teacher in Ruabon School near Wrexham, moving later to be lecturer in Welsh at Yale Sixth Form College in the town itself, where he worked until his early retirement. He married Gwenda on 12 August 1958, and the couple made their home in Ruabon, where their two daughters, Nia and
GRIFFITH, HUW WYNNE (1915 - 1993), minister (Presb) and a prominent ecumenical leader married Mair Benson-Evans (1918-2003), daughter of Dr and Mrs Benson-Evans, Prestatyn on 4 July 1945 in Rehoboth Chapel, Prestatyn and three daughters were born to them, Nia in 1947, Ann in 1949 and Gwawr in 1956. From his college days Huw Wynne Griffith had been heavily involved in the ecumenical witness. He served from 1939 to 1941 as the General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement (SCM), and
HUWS, ALUN 'SBARDUN' (1948 - 2014), musician and composer joined a contemporary folk group called Ac Eraill whose other members included Cleif Harpwood, Iestyn Garlick, Tecwyn Ifan and Phil 'Bach' Edwards. When the National Eisteddfod visited Carmarthen in 1974, Alun and the other members of Ac Eraill wrote and composed the first Welsh language rock opera, Nia Ben Aur, which was performed on the Eisteddfod's main stage. When Ac Eraill disbanded in 1974, Alun
JARMAN, ELDRA MARY (1917 - 2000), harpist and author nationalist stance on Wales's neutrality. Teleri, the Jarmans' elder daughter, was born in 1944, whilst they were living at Llandegfan, Anglesey. By the time their second daughter, Nia Eirwen, was born in 1949, the family had moved to Cardiff, following Jarman's appointment as a lecturer in the Welsh Department of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in 1946. Moving to the capital was a
JONES, ALWYN RICE (1934 - 2007), Archbishop of Wales had one daughter, Nia. In 1975, Jones moved back to parish ministry, becoming vicar of Porthmadog where he had a chance to sharpen his pastoral skills. However, it was clear that he was destined for promotion. After four years at Porthmadog, he was appointed dean of Brecon Cathedral. Together with Bishop Benjamin Vaughan, he worked hard to raise the profile of the cathedral and establish it as a
JONES, IORWERTH (1913 - 1992), minister, author and editor August 15 1940 he married Nesta Roberts from Llandegái, Bangor, a nurse by profession, whose roots were in Anglesey, her father from Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, her mother from Llangoed. They had two daughters, Nia and Eurgain, and a son, Powys. He accepted a call to Capel Als, Llanelli in 1969, and remained there until he was elected General Secretary of the Union of Welsh Independents in 1975. Prior to
JONES, THOMAS GWYNN (1871 - 1949), poet, writer, translator and scholar , 1944), two books of children's verses (Llyfr Gwion Bach, 1924, Llyfr Nia Fach, 1932) and a variety of other works. Over a long period he wrote and translated words to be set to music. He was a regular adjudicator at the national eisteddfod from 1908 and was unfailing in his support as an adjudicator and lecturer at other eisteddfodau and societies. As a teacher he influenced generations of students

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