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EVANS, SAMUEL ISLWYN (1914 - 1999), educationalist Islwyn Evans was born in Cydweli on 29 December 1914, the third of twelve children of Samuel Evans (1885-1958), coal miner, and his wife Mary Ann (née Walters, 1886-1942). He received his primary education at Ysgol y Castell, Cydweli, and in 1926 he won a scholarship to Llanelli County Intermediate School, but left in the first year after being shamed for his poverty by a teacher. For the next
EVANS, TIMOTHY EDGAR (1912 - 2007), opera singer in the Metropolitan Police until 1942; then he began performing with CEMA and ENSA, travelling all over Britain and singing in over 500 concerts. When the Covent Garden Opera Company was formed in 1946 he was engaged as one of three principal tenors, and first came to prominence on 25 March 1947 when he deputised for Heddle Nash as Des Grieux in Massenet's opera Manon. From then until his
EVANS, WILLIAM CHARLES (1911 - 1988), chemist and biologist gained his doctorate in 1936, he moved that year to a post in the physiology department at Leeds University where he began his interest in the physiology of microbes. Soon after the outbreak of World War II he was appointed Director of Plasma Production and Serology at the Regional Blood Transfusion Centre serving an extensive part of northern England and, later, the Royal Navy. In 1942, while he was
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress national theatre. By the end of the war, relations with Marda Vanne had become strained. This was in part due to Vanne's heavy drinking, particularly problematic when Gwen went away - she journeyed via gunboat to England in 1942, for example, to star opposite Gielgud in Macbeth. By 1950, Gwen, anxious not to be forgotten by her British audience, returned to live in the UK, and began an acclaimed season
FITZGERALD, MICHAEL CORNELIUS JOHN (1927 - 2007), a friar of the Carmelite Order, priest, philosopher and poet encountered there as his Welsh teacher none less than Saunders Lewis, who instilled in him a deep love of the language, literature and traditions of Wales, so that he became convinced that he should, as happened, pursue his vocation in Wales. In 1942 he went to the Carmelite friary in Kinsale, in the south of Ireland, to join the order, adopting the religious name John (after his patron saint, the great
FLEURE, HERBERT JOHN (1877 - 1969), geographer (1922) and Races of England and Wales (1923), whilst his classic paper Régions Humanies which was published in Paris was widely translated. Between 1927 and 1956 he was joint author with H. J. E. Peake of the remarkable series of 10 vols. The corridors of time and in the meantime he published French life and its problems (1942) and A natural history of Man in Britain (1951 and 1959). He did much work
FOOT, MICHAEL MACKINTOSH (1913 - 2010), politician, journalist, author and in 1942 made him editor. He moved to the Daily Herald in 1945, and then in 1948 he returned as editor of the Tribune until 1952, and again from 1955 to 1960. Foot won Plymouth Devonport for Labour in 1945 and retained the seat in 1950 and 1951 but lost it in 1955. In 1949 he married the film producer Jill Craigie (1911-1999). They did not have any children, but Jill had a daughter, Julie, from a
FOSTER, IDRIS LLEWELYN (1911 - 1984), Welsh and Celtic Scholar was appointed Head of the Department of Celtic at the University of Liverpool, where he remained for eleven years, apart from a period of three and a half years (1942-5) which he spent at Cambridge during the Second World War as a member of the intelligence division of the naval staff: there he learnt Serbo-Croatian. In 1947 he was elected Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford
GEORGE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1967), solicitor and public figure and during his period in office a national petition was arranged (1938) to try to obtain appropriate status for the Welsh language in the country, a campaign that led to the Welsh Courts Act 1942. He did much to encourage co-operation between county councils in Wales, particularly in education, and he was a firm believer in setting up a national educational council for Wales. He was a member of the
GIBSON-WATT, JAMES DAVID (BARON GIBSON-WATT), (1918 - 2002), Member of Parliament and public figure of 70. He married Diana Hambro, the second daughter of Sir Charles Hambro, Chairman of Hambro's Bank Ltd., on 10 January 1942 and they had three sons and two daughters; their eldest son, Jamie, died on 24 October 1946 at the age of three. Diana Gibson-Watt died in August 2000. Lord Gibson-Watt died at Doldowlod on 7 February 2002. The funeral was a private family occasion and a public memorial
GITTINS, CHARLES EDWARD (1908 - 1970), educationalist secondary and higher education for the county of Durham in 1938 and deputy director of education for the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1942. As tutor under the University of Durham he had experience of extra-mural and W.E.A. work. In 1945 he became director of education for Monmouthshire and for the rest of his life he applied his rich academic training, his practical experience and his extraordinary energy
GOLDSWAIN, BRYNLEY VERNON (1922 - 1983), rugby league player Community Home, Newton-le-Willows, a residential school for young offenders on the outskirts of Liverpool. He married Margaret Magdalen Muriel Vaughan (1921-2000) at St. Michael's Church, Aberystwyth on July 24, 1942. In the church register Goldswain's address is given as 15 Morgans Street, Abercrave, and his spouse was a daughter of Roderick Charles Vaughan, a postman, of 8 Gogerddan Cottages

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