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BIANCHI, ANTHONY (Tony) (1952 - 2017), writer became a student at St David's College, Lampeter. There he graduated with a first class in English and Philosophy, before staying on to write a PhD on Samuel Beckett. At Lampeter he met Diana Davies, a militant Welsh speaker and a pacifist activist. They married in 1973, and had two daughters, Heledd and Rhiannon. Bianchi took an Ulpan course to learn Welsh; he commented 'I fell in love with Welsh like
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor married (2) Elizabeth Bowen, Halfway, Llanelli, who died in 1937 leaving two daughters, Rhiannon and Enid. He died 22 April 1955, and was buried in the new Horeb cemetery.
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist team, published in 201l. She twice came close to winning the Prose Medal at the National Eisteddfod. Her entry for the Abergwaun National Eisteddfod in 1986 was published under the title Merch Morfydd. According to R. Geraint Gruffydd, one of the adjudicators, the work is 'an excellent autobiography … the writing is consistently lively and interesting and often thrilling.' Rhiannon Davies Jones
EVANS, ELLEN (1891 - 1953), principal of the Glamorgan Training College, Barry . She published Y Mabinogion i'r plant in 4 vols. (1924); Hwiangerddi Rhiannon (1926); and Y Wen Fro (1931), a volume on historical places in Glamorganshire, to meet the need for Welsh-language texts for children. Ellen Evans was a member of several public bodies. She was the only woman on the Departmental Committee on Education, 1925-27, and the first woman to be elected to the court of the Medical
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician independence which would enable him to dedicate himself to his mission for Wales. This too was the beginning of the political relationship with Carmarthenshire which would take him to the County Council (1949-73) and to Westminster where he would represent the constituency twice (1966-70, 1974-79). On St David's Day 1941 he married Rhiannon Prys Thomas (1919-2006) whose unconditional support for her husband
GRUFFYDD, WILLIAM JOHN (1881 - 1954), scholar, poet, critic and editor Mabinogion '. His major contribution, Math vab Mathonwy, a discussion of the fourth branch, appeared in 1928, to be followed after a long interval by Rhiannon in 1953, in which the first and the third branches were investigated. The aim was to unravel the various strands that had formed the tales and discover how they were linked together. Another aspect of Gruffydd's scholarship was his study of the
HODDINOTT, ALUN (1929 - 2008), composer and teacher Wales in 1997. He married, 2 April 1953, Rhiannon Huws, daughter of the Rev. Llewellyn Caradog Huws, Gwauncaegurwen, and they had one son, Ceri. He died in Swansea on 11 March 2008. The new hall of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Millennium Centre in Cardiff was named Hoddinott Hall in recognition of his contribution to music in Wales.
JONES, ELEN ROGER (1908 - 1999), actress and teacher moved to Amlwch Elementary School, returning to her former primary school, Llanallgo, in 1930. In 1938 she married Gwilym Roger Jones (1907-1988), a banker who had just been appointed to a post in Ruthin. Elen worked only as a supply teacher after her marriage. Just over a year after moving to Ruthin, Elen gave birth to a girl, Meri Rhiannon, and before the end of World War II their son was born
JONES, EMRYS (1920 - 2006), geographer University Belfast and the Open University and the Cymmrodorion Medal in 2001. He was elected a Senior Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. He was bibliophile, widely read in literature in both English and Welsh. He was a man of great charm with a mischievous sense of humour. He was married to Iona Hughes in 1948 and they had two children, Rhiannon, who predeceased him in 1980, and Catrin. He died at the
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer (1911-1957) and settled in the area. It was there at Tan-yr-eglwys, the family farm in the south of the county, that Dic Jones was brought up. He had an elder brother, David Goronwy (1932-2002) and later three girls arrived to complete the family, Rhiannon Maud Sanders (1935-), Margaret Elizabeth Daniel (1941-) and Eleanor Mary Isaac Jones (1942-). Dic received his formal education at Blaen-porth
JONES, ROBERT LLOYD (1878 - 1959), schoolmaster, children's writer and dramatist golau, Pan oeddym fechgyn, Rhiannon, Safle, Y scwlmis, Santa Clôs a'i fab, Y tair chwaer, Teulu'r Gelli. It was he who was mainly responsible for forming the Drama Society of North Wales in Caernarfon in 1929, which was to function as a branch of the Welsh Drama Union. He served several times as an adjudicator in the Urdd Gobaith Cymru national eisteddfod. He was twice married: (1) in 1906 to Elin
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Rhiannon Davies Jones was born on 4 November 1921 in Llanbedr, Meirioneth, the second daughter of Hugh Davies Jones (1872-1924), a Baptist minister, and his wife Laura (née Owen, 1887-1977), a teacher. She had one sister, Annie Davies Evans (née Jones). Her father was brought up near Oswestry, but his original family home was Derwen Fawr farm, Corwen, which the family had to leave in the 1880s

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