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teulu LLOYD GEORGE Jesus College, Cambridge (hon. Fellow, 1953); major Royal Artillery in 1914-18 war, M.P. (L) (1) 1922-24, (2) 1929-50, both terms for Pembrokeshire, (3) 1951-57 for Newcastle-upon-Tyne North (Nat. L. and Cons.). He held the following government posts: parliamentary sec. to the Board of Trade 1931 and 1939-41; Ministry of Food, 1941, Minister of Fuel and Power, 1942-45, Minister of Food, October 1951
LLOYD, JOHN MEIRION (1913 - 1998), missionary and author . He was accepted as a missionary by the Presbyterian Church of Wales in September 1940 and ordained in Swansea in November 1941. Due to difficulty in getting a ship, he was content to fulfill the position of Secretary to the Students' Christian Movement (SCM) in south Wales, and from April 1942 he was minister of the denomination's English Chapel in Catharine Street, Liverpool. There he met the girl
LLOYD-JONES, JOHN (1885 - 1956), scholar and poet . Lloyd-Jones was highly regarded as a poet in the strict metres. He won the national eisteddfod chair at Ammanford in 1922 for his poem ' Y Gaeaf ', a lyrical composition very skilfully constructed. Poems by him appeared in Y Llenor in 1930, 1942, 1949 and 1950, each one thoroughly traditional in spirit and in metre and of a high poetic standard. There is a collection of his poetry in his own hand in
LLYWELYN-WILLIAMS, ALUN (1913 - 1988), poet and literary critic paper shortages, but it remains one of the most significant short-lived periodicals. In 1944 Llywelyn-Williams published the first of his three collections of poems, the short volume Cerddi 1934-1942 containing love poems and ones recording the atmosphere of that anxious time before the outbreak of war and the march of fascism and Nazism. The love between him and Alice Phoebe Stocker (1911-2005), a
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author destroyers. In 1936 Lockley extended his studies of avian navigation by releasing two shearwaters from the Faeroe Islands and bringing a local bird south releasing it at Leith harbour just north of Edinburgh. All birds returned to their respective homes. The research culminated in a book in 1942, Shearwaters. In 1939 Lockley brought a razorbill to London for Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, and
LOVEGROVE, EDWIN WILLIAM (1868 - 1956), schoolmaster and an authority on Gothic architecture , Grimsby; Stamford; and Ruthin, 1913-30. He married (1), 1899, Septima Jane Roberts (died 30 April 1928), sister of William Rhys Roberts, and they had a son, Wynne, who fell at Dunkirk, and two daughters. He married (2), Kathleen Agnes Sanders. After retiring he lived at St. Asaph, 1930-31; Chipping Campden, 1932-41; Abergavenny, 1942-45; and at Fownhope, Herefordshire until he died, 11 March 1956. He
MACDONALD, GORDON (first Baron MACDONALD of GWAENYSGOR), (1888 - 1966), politician judgement during a difficult period for Labour members. Although he was a friend of Ramsay Macdonald, he did not support him in 1931. He became a whip of the Labour Party, and took a prominent part in debates on the coal industry and social matters. He was also Chairman of Committees in the House of Commons, 1934-41. In 1942 he resigned from Parliament on his appointment as manager for the Lancashire
MACKWORTH, CECILY JOAN (1911 - 2006), writer, poet, journalist and traveller , addressing groups of workers including miners and women making munitions and parachutes. She worked hard and played hard. Cyril Connolly published her poetry in Horizon. She wrote book reviews and features for the press, sometimes under the pseudonym 'Rhiannon'. In 1942 her book Czechoslovakia Fights Back told of the country's Nazi occupation. The following year she and Dr Jan Stransky published
MARDY-JONES, THOMAS ISAAC (1879 - 1970), economist and politician in India, the Middle East and South Africa between 1928 and 1946. He served as the Staffing Officer of the Ministry of Supply, 1942-44, and as the Education and Welfare Officer with the British forces in the Middle East from 1945 to 1946. He became a popular public lecturer on foreign affairs and specialised on India and the Middle East. He was elected a F.R.Econ.S., and was appointed official
MATTHEWS, NORMAN GREGORY (1904 - 1964), chancellor Committee for the Training of Ordinands; he wrote a number of pamphlets on the call to the ministry. From 1942 he had been lecturing on English literature for the L.E.A. and the British Council. He was a frequent broadcaster and in 1957 he became a member of the Brains Trust on B.B.C. television. He wrote many articles in the press and in various journals on literary subjects and was a competent musician
MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799), Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Antiquarian Society and Field Club, 1942, 33-41, there is a most interesting parody of ' Young Mends the Clothier's sermon - obviously this was one of the two brothers. The parody is from NLW MS 67A, in the writing of Lewis Morris of Anglesey; it does not follow that it is his own composition, but he probably heard of ' Young Mends ' when he was surveying the Pembrokeshire harbours. What grains of wheat
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author Hanes yr Apocrypha ('The History of the Apocrypha') in 1942, the only book in Welsh on the subject. He was invited to deliver the Davies Lecture in 1970 and choose as his subject 'Gwenallt Bardd Crefyddol' ('Gwenallt, religious poet'), and the lecture was extended and published as a book, under the same title, in 1974. As an appendix, Gwenallt's autobiographical essay, first published in Credaf ('I

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