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DAVIES, GWYNNE HENTON (1906 - 1998), Old Testament scholar his long life. His Festschrift contains a select bibliography of his works which include: 'The Presence of God in Israel', in Studies in History and Religion, H. Wheeler Robinson Festschrift, ed. E. A. Payne; London, Lutterworth Press, 1942, pp. 11-29; 'The Yahwistic Tradition in the Eighth-Century Prophets', in Studies in Old Testament Prophecy, Theodore H. Robinson Festschrift, ed. H. H. Rowley
FOX, Sir CYRIL FRED (1882 - 1967), Director of the National Museum of Wales first year, 'in a most unusual and skilful academic move' he did not complete his degree scheme but was transferred under the title ' pre-fellow ' to carry out research work in the same college and to assist in the university museum of archaeology and anthropology. He gained his Ph.D. with work published as The archaeology of the Cambridge region (Cambridge, 1922). In 1922 when R.E. Mortimer Wheeler
GRESHAM, COLIN ALASTAIR (1913 - 1989), archaeologist, historian and author name 'Pennant' after the township of that name in his beloved Eifionydd. He was elevated to the Druidic Order at the Barry National Eisteddfod in 1968. He began researching into local history seriously in 1931 and on his archaeological field-work in north-west Wales soon after his graduation in 1935 when he assisted R. E. Mortimer Wheeler and Wilfrid James Hemp. Following a suggestion made to him by
HOWELL, JOHN HENRY (1869 - 1944), pioneer of technical education in New Zealand married in September 1894 Nellie Wheeler, a prominent figure in socialist circles at Bristol, who shared fully his own ideals. They had no children, and when he died on 20 June 1944, he left a third of the residue of his estate to the U.C.W., Aberystwyth in memory of the principal who had befriended him in 1889. He had two sisters, Esther Mary (Ettie) who was a deaconess in Dudley, 1897-1900, Manchester
JOHN, JAMES MANSEL (1910 - 1975), Baptist minster and college professor Erbury under the supervision of Dr Claude Jenkins when he received a call to pastor Alfred Place English Baptist church in Aberystwyth. He accepted the call and was ordained there in 1937, with Principals Wheeler Robinson and Nathaniel Micklem from Oxford preaching the charges to the new minister and to the church. While a minister in Aberystwyth, Mansel John also lectured in the extra-mural department
MORGAN, DAVID JENKINS (1884 - 1949), teacher and agricultural officer history and traditions. He gained the deep affection and trust of farmers. His vehicle, a Morgan three-wheeler, was a familiar sight along the highways and most remote by-ways of the county. His influence on the county's agriculture was enormous. His weekly essays in The Welsh Gazette under the title ' Pant a bryn ' are a valuable source on the development of agriculture and social life in Cardiganshire
NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE (1897 - 1955), archaeologist -Williams spent his entire professional career in the service of the National Museum of Wales and of the University College, Cardiff. When Mortimer Wheeler whose early pupil he was, became director of the National Museum in 1924, Nash-Williams was offered the Assistant Keepership of the Department of Archaeology under Cyril Fox; and when Fox in his turn became Director, Nash-Williams became Keeper of the
SEYLER, CLARENCE ARTHUR (1866 - 1959), chemist and public analyst , 1941); Die Entwicklung der Kohlen-Petrographia (1951); with W.H. Edwards, The microscopical examination of coal (1929); with Illingworth and Wheeler, Report on explosions in anthracite stoves (1924); and papers in the Transactions of the South Wales Institute of Engineers, and the Royal Society. For his 'dilettante enjoyments', as he called them, after long weeks of laboratory work, he would apply
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), Professor of Education Born in 1886, daughter of Henry Burford Wheeler, Brecon. She was educated at Brecon County School for Girls and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she was president of the Students' Representative Council and graduated B.Sc. (1907); she received a M.Sc. degree (1911) and was elected a Fellow of the University of Wales. She went as a research student to Bedford College, London
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist Olive Wheeler was born in Brecon on 4 May 1886, the younger daughter of Annie Wheeler (née Poole) and her husband, Henry Burford Wheeler, a printer and publisher. She received her early education at Brecon County School for Girls, before enrolling at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1904, where she graduated with a BSc in Chemistry in 1907, a University of Wales Teaching

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