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DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist voice, as well as a fiery temper. Her mother, Mari, was a milder character and a talented storyteller and rhymester. Cae Tudur was always a home full of humour and fun, and the family themselves created all of the entertainment, a fact which is emphasised in Cassie's autobiography, Hwb i'r Galon. She formed a quartet with her brothers and sisters, under the watchful guidance of their father, which
DAVIES, JAMES KITCHENER (1902 - 1952), poet, dramatist and nationalist , and also as a candidate for his party in east Rhondda in 1945, and west Rhondda in 1950 and 1951, shortly before he was taken ill. In 1940 he married a Tonypandy grammar school teacher, Mair Rees of Ffos-y-ffin, Aberaeron, and they made their home in Aeron, Brithweunydd, Trealaw, where their three daughters Megan, Mari and Manon were born. He enjoyed gardening, was good company, and read extensively
EDWARDS, THOMAS (Twm o'r Nant; 1739 - 1810), poet and writer of interludes criticism. Twm's two main characteristics, his ready wit and his facility in versification, account for many a scathing passage in his works, and also for the fact that some of his verses remained in the popular memory for generations. (It will be recalled how Mari Lewis, in Daniel Owen's novel, Rhys Lewis, was continually quoting 'Tomos o'r Nant.') A collection of his poems, entitled Gardd o Gerddi and
EVANS, GEORGE EWART (1909 - 1988), writer and oral historian sheaf of books that began with the classic Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay (1956), followed by The Horse in the Furrow (1960) - his interest in horse lore is a constant feature of his work and was first aroused by his study of the Mari Lwyd, which was very much alive in the districts his parents came from - The Pattern under the Plough (1966) Where Beards Wag All (1970), The Days that We have Seen
EVANS, WILLIAM (Wil Ifan; 1883 - 1968), minister (Congl.), poet and writer in Welsh and English , daughter of John and Catherine Edwards, Eirianfa, Dolgellau, 28 December 1910, and they had four children: Elwyn, Mari, Nest, Brian. He died 16 July 1968. He shone as one of the most versatile of the poets and writers of Wales. He was a playwright, newspaper columnist, broadcaster, lecturer, and a lyrical poet in both Welsh and English; he was also a musician and an excellent artist. He won some of the
HALL, AUGUSTA (Lady Llanover), (Gwenynen Gwent; 1802 - 1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Welsh national life. She maintained the Mari Lwyd and Plygain traditions at Llanover, her choir, the Llanover Cantorion, competed at eisteddfodau and performed folk songs in concerts at home and in London, and the dances held for servants and others at Llanover helped preserve a Welsh folk dance tradition that had almost been annihilated by Welsh Nonconformism. The 'Llanover Reel' in particular is
HOWELLS, GERAINT WYN (Baron Geraint), (1925 - 2004), farmer and politician sheep farming. He suffered from heart trouble before the 1992 general election and he underwent, in later years, a major heart operation. He married Mary Olwen Hughes Griffiths in 1957; they had two daughters, Gaenor and Mari. Lord Geraint lived at Glennydd, Ponterwyd; he died on 17 April 2004 and his funeral was held on 24 April at Ponterwyd Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, where he served as deacon; a
HUGHES, DEWI ARWEL (1947 - 2017), Christian leader and theologian in the Religious Studies Department at the Polytechnic of Wales. Dewi and Maggie raised five children there - Rebecca Rhian, Daniel Rhodri, Steffan William, Anna Mari and Lydia Ruth. Dewi was an elder at Temple Baptist Church, Pontypridd. He was also a keen supporter of Welsh Education and served for many years on the Governing Boards of Pont Siôn Norton Welsh Primary School and Rhydfelen High
JONES, REES CRIBIN (1841 - 1927), Unitarian minister and teacher , School Board and the Board of Guardians. He was interested in spiritualism. Watcyn Samuel Jones (1877 - 1964) was a child of his first marriage to Mari Jones (10 January 1873). She died on 11 March 1898. His second wife, Mary Ann, died on 8 February 1945 and he himself died on 11 August 1927. His son dedicated his book, Helyntion hen bregethwr a'i gyfoedion, 1940, to his stepmother.
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer Pengwern ('The eagle of Pengwern', 1981), a novel set in the time of the Heledd saga poetry, which the author says that she wrote in response to the threat by Gwynfor Evans to go on hunger strike for a Welsh television channel. Dyddiadur Mari Gwyn ('The Diary of Mari Gwyn', 1985) is a novel dealing with the persecution of Catholics in the reign of Elizabeth 1 focusing on the life of the writer and
JONES, SHÂN EMLYN (1936 - 1997), singer Ifan ab Owen Edwards, at Penmount chapel, Pwllheli, on 16 April 1958. They had two daughters, Elin and Mari. The marriage was dissolved in 1994. She suffered poor health in her last years and died in Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor on 30 December 1997. Her funeral took place at Penmount chapel on 6 January 1998, and she was buried in Penrhos cemetery. Donations were received in her memory towards the work of
JONES, WATCYN SAMUEL (1877 - 1964), agricultural administrator and principal of a theological college Born 16 February 1877, son of Rees Cribin Jones, Unitarian minister, and Mari Jones (the daughter of Watcyn and Mari Jones, Ty'n-lofft, Betws Bledrws), in a house in Bridge Street, Lampeter known as Glasfryn Stores. He was one of four children, but the other three died in infancy. His father, like many other Unitarian ministers of the time, ran a school, and perhaps the son received some of his

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