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LEWIS, BENJAMIN WALDO (1877 - 1953), Baptist minister responsible for all the work of the Society on the island. He died at his home at Briarleigh, Longacre Road on 31 December 1953, after a long illness which followed an accident at Borth the previous September. He was buried at Carmarthen public cemetery on 4 January 1954. He was married on 14 June 1922 at Zion English Presbyterian church, Carmarthen to Enid Mari Wheldon (born 14 March 1892), a native of
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer Born at Mynydd-bach, a smallholding in the village of Hermon, in the parish of Llanfyrnach, Pembrokeshire, 28 December 1879, the second son of the family of five children of Dan and Mari Lewis. His father worked at the Llanfyrnach lead mine until it closed and he had to go to Aberdare to find work, but following a serious injury he was unable to continue working. He died aged 43 of lead poisoning
LLOYD, ISAAC SAMUEL (Glan Rhyddallt; 1875 - 1961), quarryman, poet and writer ' Glan Rhyddallt ' in the Gorsedd. He was a weekly columnist with the Herald Cymraeg from 1931 until his death. Under the name of ' Mari Lewis ', his daughter had begun her column a year before her father. He corresponded on a regular basis with Welsh Americans and he wrote an account of Goronwy Owen, Goronwy'r Alltud (1947). He died at Gallt y Sil Hospital, Caernarfon, on 7 July 1961 and he was buried
MORGAN, DAVID EIRWYN (1918 - 1982), college principal and minister (B) two children, Dylan Eryl and Mari Helga. He was the pastor of the church in Pisga for twelve years before accepting a call in 1956 to be minister of Tabernacl and Horeb churches, Llandudno. Four years later, the churches in Llandudno released him for a year to enable him to take up a Fulbright Scholarship as Ecumenical Research Fellow in New York Union Seminary (1960-61). Toward the end of his year
MORGAN, HYWEL RHODRI (1939 - 2017), politician his former flatmate - and future Labour leader - Neil Kinnock, was far quicker. The explanation for this lay in Morgan's desire to make time for his growing family: the arrivals of daughters, Mari and Siani, were soon rounded off by the adoption of a son, Stuart. Stints as a research officer for local and central government (1965-71), an economic adviser to the Department of Trade (1972-74), an
PRICHARD, CARADOG (1904 - 1980), novelist and poet side of Fleet Street, joining the staff of the Daily Telegraph as parliamentary sub-editor. Caradog and Mattie's daughter, Mari, was born in the same year. Caradog continued to write poetry in London, although his first collection, Canu Cynnar (1937), consisted mostly of earlier poems, written before he left Wales. The book was dedicated to his mother and her fellow patients at the Denbigh mental
ROBERTS, GWILYM OWEN (1909 - 1987), author, lecturer, minister and psychologist after he took a post as a lecturer in clincal psychology at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon in 1947. He was made a professor during his period in the United States. He returned to Wales due to family reasons in 1953, with his wife Mary. Their only child, Marilee (the actress Mari Gwilym), was born soon after. He settled in Pontllyfni and lived there for the rest of his life. He taught
ROBERTS, ROBERT (Bob Tai'r Felin; 1870 - 1951), folk singer miller ensured the popularity and survival of songs such as Mari Fach fy Nghariad, Moliannwn, Gwenno Penygelli, etc. In 1959 Haydn Morris edited the book Caneuon Bob Tai'r Felin, which was published by Snell, Swansea. He died 30 November 1951 and was buried at Llanycil cemetery, near Bala. In 1961, Llwyd o'r Bryn's appeal for donations was instrumental in erecting a memorial to the singing miller on
ROBERTS, WILLIAM (Nefydd; 1813 - 1872), Baptist minister, printer, author, eisteddfodwr, South Wales representative of the British and Foreign Schools Society production, was written for eisteddfodau. This is Crefydd yr Oesoedd Tywyll, neu Henafiaethau Defodol, Chwareu-yddol, a Choelgrefyddol: yn cynnwys y Traethawd Gwobrwyol yn Eisteddfod y Fenni ar Mari Lwyd … ynghyd a Sylwadau ar lawer o hen Arferion tebyg i Mari Lwyd … (Carmarthen, 1852). He set up his own printing press at Blaenau (in 1864) and printed and published Y Bedyddiwr for four years; he edited
THOMAS, ISAAC (1911 - 2004), minister (Independents) and college lecturer Bangor University Archives. He married Sibyl Jones, Treorchy, and a daughter, Mari, was born to them; she died at the age of forty in 1984. His wife, Sibyl, died 1 February, 2004, and Isaac Thomas died in Bangor on 23 May, 2004.
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet obstinacy of belief (in poets, for example, as 'good') that in personal relationships made of him a kind of unorthodox saint. Vernon Watkins's volumes of poetry, exclusive of American editions and selections, were: Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941), The Lamp and the Veil (1945), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), The North Sea (translations from Heine) (1951), The Death Bell (1954), Cypress and Acacia (1959
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM NANTLAIS (1874 - 1959), minister (Presb.), editor, poet and hymn writer Born 30 December 1874 at Llawr-cwrt, Gwyddgrug, near Pencader, Carmarthenshire, the youngest of the ten children of Daniel and Mari Williams. He was educated at New Inn elementary school, and at the age of 12 he was apprenticed to his brothers as a weaver. He was brought up in New Inn church, where he began preaching in 1894. He was educated for the ministry at Newcastle Emlyn grammar school and

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