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ROBERTS, EVELYN BEATRICE (Lynette) (1909 - 1995), poet and prose writer and opened her own florist's shop, Bruska. Lynette was briefly engaged to the racing driver and soldier Merlin Minshall, but broke off the engagement when she met the Welsh poet, editor and writer Keidrych Rhys (William Ronald Rees Jones, 1915-1987) at a Poetry London event in 1939. The two married on 4 October 1939 in Llansteffan, with fellow Welsh poet Dylan Thomas as best man. Following their
SCOTT-ELLIS, THOMAS EVELYN (8th BARON HOWARD DE WALDEN, 4th BARON SEAFORD), (1880 - 1946), landowner and sportsman, writer, and patron of the arts the home of his ancestors. He also spent some time at Llanina, Cardiganshire. Besides being a patron of dramatists (in Wales and London) and musicians, e.g. his association with Josef Holbrooke in the production of The Children of Don and Dylan, he was himself a writer, the Arthurian cycle giving him the subject of his first play, and, later, the folklore of Wales providing him with material for
STEPHENS, JOHN OLIVER (1880 - 1957), Independent minister and professor at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen portraits of men such as George Essex Evans, Dewi Emrys, Dylan Thomas and Dyfnallt, there is a translation by him of a short story by Guy de Maupassant, ' Le Retour' (January 1921); a warm appreciation of the contribution of Professor Edmund Crosby Quiggin, the Celtic scholar, and a study on the Celts and warfare (Summer 1956 : a translation by D. Eirwyn Morgan of ' Keltic War Gods ' that was published in
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953), poet and prose writer Dylan Thomas was born at 5, Cwmdonkin Drive in Swansea, on 27 October 1914. He was the son of David John Thomas (1876-1952) and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams, 1882-1958), who came from rural Welsh-speaking families in north and south west Carmarthenshire respectively. The parents spoke Welsh to each other, but the father (a First Class Honours English graduate of the University College
THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS (1914 - 1953) Born 27 October 1914 in Swansea, son of David John Thomas and his wife Florence Hannah (née Williams) who themselves came from rural, Welsh -speaking families in Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire. The father, a nephew of William Thomas ' Gwilym Marles ', was from 1899 to 1936 English master at Swansea grammar school, which Dylan Thomas attended from 1925 to 1931. That was his only period of
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress four occasions was the play for voices by Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood. She took part in Douglas Cleverdon's radio productions of this play in 1954 and 1963, then in the film directed by Andrew Sinclair in 1972, and again in the radio production by George Martin, the Beatles' producer, in 1987. Nor did she neglect the theatre during her sixty-year performing career. She appeared, for instance, in
THOMAS, RONALD STUART (1913 - 2000), poet and clergyman otherwise professed to despise. In 1964 he anomalously elected to accept the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry. But then, Thomas subscribed wholeheartedly to the Yeatsian maxim that it is 'out of our quarrel with ourselves that we make poetry.' Fame arrived unexpectedly in 1955 (two years after Dylan Thomas's death) when Song at the Year's Turning, his second collection and the first to be published by a
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Christian view developed, successively from his earlier Romantic pagansim), that all are immortal because all are 'justified' and that the present moment must be seen as the microcosm of all moments, past and future. Vernon Watkins went on to become one of the very few metaphysical poets of the twentieth century and probably the most distinguished. Overshadowed in his lifetime by his meteoric friend Dylan
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet associated with the Welsh Republican movement - sustained by a handful of people like Gwilym Prys Davies, Cliff Bere, Huw Davies, Ithel Davies - and edited its bi-monthy newspaper. The movement failed to take popular root and Harri eventually moved on to Plaid as a realistic second best. Webb was as polemic in his literary views as he was in politics. He was contemptuous of Dylan Thomas thinking him

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