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ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales extreme individualist who missed few opportunities to taunt the Nonconformists and the Labourites. His love of alcohol was a failing in the eyes of most ministers and churchgoers in West Glamorganshire. Often he would drink in Swansea in the company of Dylan Thomas. His life and his witness were unique and he proved a controversial figure for 42 years in Swansea and District. He died at Swansea on 27
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer houses, and though he was most comfortable in Italian romantic opera, he sang some of the more challenging roles in twentieth-century repertoire with consummate ease. He worked well in several television genres, with roles such as Bosun in the 1966 television production of Britten's Billy Budd, Blind Captain Cat in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, and in Elaine Morgan's famous 1978 television adaptation
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director 1945, succeeding the ailing Rowland Hughes as the BBC English language features producer in Cardiff. He described this as 'the watershed of my life'. He produced work by Rhys Davies who became a good friend. In 1947 Burton commissioned Dylan Thomas's Return Journey, adding five minutes to the script himself in order to meet the requisite broadcast time. He later played the Reverend Eli Jenkins in the
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher broadcasting, and at the end of the war he joined the staff of the BBC in Cardiff. He produced several radio talks by Dylan Thomas, providing the poet with some much-needed income. Some of those talks are included in Quite Early One Morning (1944). He was a personal friend of Dylan Thomas, and in his book Dylan: Druid of the Broken Body (1964), he maintained that Dylan was essentially a religious poet
HOPKINS, GERARD MANLEY (1844 - 1889), poet and priest , including Dylan Thomas. 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' was written at the suggestion of the Rector of St Beuno's College, Father John, to commemorate the drowning of Franciscan nuns fleeing persecution in Germany in December 1875, and in it Hopkins expressed his sense of guilt at the contrast between his physical and spiritual safety in Wales and the peril and martyrdom of the nuns. Having given up poetry
JONES, DANIEL JENKYN (1912 - 1993), composer friend of Dylan Thomas. The two remained close friends until Dylan's death in 1953; Jones edited a complete edition of Thomas's poems, and recorded his recollections of the poet in his volume My Friend Dylan Thomas (1977). The two of them belonged to a cultural circle in Swansea which included the artist Alfred Janes and the poet Vernon Watkins. Jones went to University College Swansea and graduated in
JONES, MORGAN GLYNDWR (1905 - 1995), poet, novelist and short story writer , which characterizes these poems, shows nothing of the bleak reality around him, being rather an imaginative escape into a world of lyric beauty. Jones's early poetry was published in Seumas O'Sullivan's Dublin Magazine and in Harriet Monroe's Poetry (Chicago) before being collected in Poems (Fortune P, 1939). By this time Jones had met Dylan Thomas (April 1934). Jones's chapel background - 'I
JONES, THOMAS HENRY (1921 - 1965), lecturer and poet enemy in the heart (1957), Songs of a mad prince (1960) and The beast at the door (1963); a critical study of Dylan Thomas (1963); and was editor of an Australian journal of studies in American literature. He demonstrated a mastery of language and developed his particular talent in poems which were appreciated in Australia and beyond. Both his war-time experience of losing friends at sea and the hard
LEVY, MERVYN MONTAGUE (1914 - 1996), writer and broadcaster on the visual arts Mervyn Levy was born in Swansea on 11 February 1914 of Jewish heritage, one of the three children of Louis Levy and Have Levy (née Rubenstein). He grew up in comfortable circumstances among the talented Swansea generation that included Alfred Janes, Daniel Jones and Dylan Thomas. In the early 1930s, they would frequent the Kardomah Café, together with Vernon Watkins, Charles Fisher and others
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller Czechoslovakia with a preface by the former Czech ambassador, Jan Masaryk. She also did radio broadcasts and research for the Labour Party. She socialised with literary figures such as Dylan Thomas, Nancy Cunard, Inez Holden and Stevie Smith. Mackworth returned to Paris when war ended, living in St-Germain-des-Prés amongst Surrealists, Existentialists and Communists. She wrote for the new monthly literary
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) two children, Dylan Eryl and Mari Helga. He was the pastor of the church in Pisga for twelve years before accepting a call in 1956 to be minister of Tabernacl and Horeb churches, Llandudno. Four years later, the churches in Llandudno released him for a year to enable him to take up a Fulbright Scholarship as Ecumenical Research Fellow in New York Union Seminary (1960-61). Toward the end of his year
MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author in the organisation of Burnley's celebration of International Women's Day. She also joined the Communist Party, a fact which, later in life, having rejoined the Labour Party, she kept carefully hidden for professional reasons. It was whilst living in Burnley that the first of Elaine Morgan's children, John Dylan (1946-2011) was born. A second child, Gareth, followed in 1949. But for the onset of

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