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NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party protested and their case was taken up by two able barristers, P. N. Pritt and Ithel Davies. The Government agreed to set up a tribunal under the chairmanship of Judge John Morris (later Lord Justice Morris of Porth-y-gest) which met in Ascot. The two were released after four months of prison. The sonnets written in prison were published in 1942 under the title Canu'r Carchar, and translated into English
OWEN, Sir ARTHUR DAVID KEMP (1904 - 1970), international administrator . degree in 1929. He was assistant lecturer in economics at Huddersfield Technical College, 1926-29; director of Sheffield Social Survey Committee, 1929-33, secretary of the Civic Division, Political and Economic Planning (P.E.P.), 1933-36; co-director of the Pilgrim Trust Unemployment Enquiry, 1933-37; lecturer in citizenship, University of Glasgow, 1937-40; general secretary, P.E.P., 1940-41. In 1942
OWEN, HUGH (1880 - 1953), historian the periodical between 1942 and 1944, and his edition, Additional letters of the Morrises of Anglesey in two parts, Y Cymmrodor, 49 (1947, 1949). The University of Liverpool awarded him a M.A. degree in 1914 for his thesis, ' Pre-Edwardian castles in north Wales '. In 1916 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and of the London Society of Antiquaries (F.S.A.) in 1924. He married in
OWEN, WILLIAM RICHARD (1906 - 1982), pioneer of Welsh broadcasting Lieutenant in the Home Guard. Broadcasting was developing at a fast pace during the war, with an increasing demand for current news and entertainment, and W. R. Owen took the risk of leaving a safe and permanent job at the Library to embark on a new career in broadcasting by joining the BBC at Cardiff in 1942 as a producer in charge of recording radio programmes. W. R. Owen was instrumental in establishing
PADLEY, WALTER ERNEST (1916 - 1984), Labour politician Commons on trade and industry. Before his election to parliament, he wrote a number of monographs. His published books include The Economic Problem of the Peace (1944), Am I my Brother's Keeper? (1945), Britain: Pawn or Power? (1947) and USSR: Empire or Free Union? (1949). He married on 7 November 1942 Sylvia Elsie Wilson, and they had a son and a daughter. Their home was at 73 Priory Gardens, Highgate
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (1904 - 1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet compiled and published an index of the works of [Sir] Ifor Williams, his Head of Department. In the same year, jointly with E. Curig Davies, he published a volume of general knowledge for children, Gwybod, llyfr y bachgen a'r eneth. He produced the tenth in a series of Pamphlets for Welsh Pacifists (Tystiolaeth y Tadau, 1942), he wrote a booklet on Eisteddfod y Cymry (1943), and co-edited with Cynan a
PARRY-WILLIAMS, AMY (1910 - 1988), singer and author became a teacher at Carmarthen Girls' Grammar School and then a lecturer at Barry Training College. In August 1942 she married her Professor at Aberystwyth, T. H. Parry-Williams. There were no children of the marriage. Amy showed musical promise at an early age, and along with her brother Madoc and sister Mary would compete regularly at eisteddfodau in Carmarthenshire and at regional and national level
PARRY-WILLIAMS, Sir THOMAS HERBERT (1887 - 1975), author and scholar Olion (1935), Lloffion (1942), O'r Pedwar Gwynt (1944), Ugain o Gerddi (1949), Myfyrdodau (1957) and Pensynnu (1966). The essays were collected in Casgliad o Ysgrifau in 1984, and the poems in Casgliad o Gerddi three years later. In his canonical poetry Parry-Williams employed two poetic forms to which he adhered for most of his writing career. The rhigwm, or rhyming couplet, is used to make concise
PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901 - 1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth
teulu PHILIPPS Picton, Carmarthenshire (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 13). He was sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1595 and 1611 and of Carmarthenshire in 1623. He sponsored the literary work of Robert Holland who dedicated his first book to his wife, Anne Philipps. He was captain of the trained bands of Dungleddy. He died at Clog-y-fran, his Carmarthenshire home, on 27 March 1629 and was buried at
PHILLIPS, THOMAS BEVAN (1898 - 1991), minister, missionary and college principal trained by Phillips or had heard of his work over 1942-45 in the Second World War. In 1943 Phillips was called to assist Sir Keith Cantlie, son of Sir James Cantlie (1851-1926), a Scottish physician and pioneer who had written the first book on First Aid, which became useful in the British coalfield where there were so many accidents. Sir Keith Cantlie (a staunch Presbyterian like himself) was one of
teulu POWELL Nanteos, Llechwedd-dyrus, , 358; Foster, Alumni Oxonienses). Dr. Powell figures prominently in the 'Morris Letters' - for page references see 'Index of Persons' by Hugh Owen (1942) - owing to the dispute with Lewis Morris over Cardiganshire mines and mining; for details see D. Lleufer Thomas, ' Lewis Morris in Cardiganshire,' in Cymm., xv. His son, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Athelstan Owen, Rhiwsaeson

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