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HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN (GARETH HUGHES; 1894 - 1965), actor and Amanda Beresford's Shakespearean company in 1912 preceded his inclusion in a company of Welsh Players. The Players toured a farce, Little Miss Llewellyn, during the first half of 1913. As part of a Welsh National Theatre movement in January 1914 he sailed to America with the Welsh Players to perform J. O. Francis's prizewinning play Change. Gareth initially played the small part of Dai Matthews
HUW DAI (fl. 1568), harpist
JENKINS, ALBERT EDWARD (1895 - 1953), rugby player Born 11 March 1895 at Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he became the town's idol. His talent on the rugby field flowered when he played as full back for the 38th Division during World War I, but it was as a centre for Llanelli club that he came into prominence. Llanelli was the most successful club for a period during the 1920s, with men like Dai John, Ernie Finch and Ifor Jones in its ranks, but it
teulu JONES, smiths, poets, musicians and preachers Cilie, father died in 1902, most of the farm work fell on him and on his mother. He was a gifted smith and engineer. As a young man ' Dai Cilie' or 'Isfoel' became well known in his community as a poet, a composer of ballads, and a witty compère of eisteddfodau. He won prizes regularly at eisteddfodau for the englyn, cywydd and lyric. His englynion and verses written for special occasions became part of folk
JONES, DAVID JOHN (1906 - 1978), opera singer , near Pontardawe, and at the age of 14 David was employed at the local tinplate works. The choral conductor W. D. Clee (1884-1946) heard him sing at Saron chapel in Rhyd-y-fro and gave him vocal tuition. When Clee formed the Ystalyfera Choral Society in 1925, Dai Jones joined the choir and further developed his talent, appearing as a soloist at their concerts. He competed at eisteddfodau, and
JONES, JOHN (Shoni Sguborfawr; c.1810 - 1867), Rebecca rioter authorities the names of several of his associates. 'Shoni' was removed from Carmarthen gaol on 5 February 1844 to the Millbank penitentiary, in the company of David Davies 'Dai'r Cantwr' (1812? - 1874). He was then separated from 'Dai', and embarked on the Blundell on 8 March, reaching Norfolk Island, a probationary station for convicts, on 6 July. Here he remained until he was transferred to Van Diemen's
JONES, THOMAS (1908 - 1990), trade unionist and Spanish Civil War veteran industrial and political landscape brought about partly by the devolution of powers from Westminster to Wales. In 1972 Jones and the secretary of the south Wales region of the National Union of Mineworkers, Dai Francis, united to propose the establishment of a 'Democratic Trades Union Congress' in Wales to replace the two regional Advisory Committees of the British TUC. Jones and Francis were formidable
JONES, WALTER DAVID MICHAEL (1895 - 1974), painter and poet divergences of British culture across history, its sense of the war as an uncanny, revelatory ordeal for that culture - is given voice at one point by the mythical persona Dai Greatcoat, who 'articulates his English with an alien care,' addressing the reader directly with 'You ought to ask: Why, / what is this, / what's the meaning of this.' In this ambiguity - with 'this' either the poem or the war - we
MEREDITH, JOHN ELLIS (1904 - 1981), minister (Presbyterian Church of Wales) and author their pacifism. He also valued the continuing friendship of some of his fellow students at Oxford, T. Rowland Hughes, Professor Alun Moelwyn Hughes and Reverend Glyn Parry Jones. He received golfing lessons from Dai Rees, the professional at Aberdare Golf Club, though it cannot be claimed that he spent much time at the game. Later in life he became a keen fisherman. In 1937 J. E. Meredith received a
OWENS, JOHNNY RICHARD (JOHNNY OWEN; 1956 - 1980), boxer some idea that a Welsh name would not be politically acceptable within the profession. He turned professional on 1 September 1976, with the former boxer Dai Gardiner as his manager, and began his training programme in the New Tredegar Gym in the Rhymney Valley, a few miles from his home in Merthyr. In his first professional fight on 30 September 1976, he defeated his fellow Welshman George Sutton
REES, DAVID JAMES (1913 - 1983), golfer and author Dai Rees was born 31 March, 1913 in the village of Font-y-gary near Barry, Glamorganshire, the son of David Evans Rees (died 1959) and his wife Louisa Alice (née Trow). As his parents were involved in the world of golf - his father was the professional at Leys Golf Club in the Vale of Glamorgan and his mother a steward in the same club - he was brought up to play the game from childhood. He began
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author , in a direct challenge to contemporary Welsh writing in English, with a female protagonist. He continued to innovate with his chorus-like masterpiece Home to an Empty House (1973). Short story collections, Dai Country (1973) and The Former Miss Merthyr Tydfil (1976), added to his portrait of contemporary south Wales - as uncompromisingly antagonistic to Welsh nationalism and the Welsh language as it

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