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PAGE, LESLIE ALUN (1920 - 1990), Minister (Cong.) Alun Page was born in Maesteg, Llynfi Valley, Glamorgan, where he spent his childhood. As a consequence of the depression and unemployment of the 1920s, the family moved for a period to Bexley Heath, on the outskirts of London, and he often spoke of his great indebtedness to the influence that the chapel of his denomination at Woolwich had on him. Following his family's return to Maesteg, he
PASK, ALUN EDWARD ISLWYN (1937 - 1995), rugby player and teacher Alun Pask was born on 10 September 1937 at Pontllanfraith, Monmouthshire, the second of the three sons of David Gwyn Pask (1910-1979) and his wife Winifred Dovey (née Bray, 1910-1976). Alun Pask was a student at Pontllanfraith Grammar School and Loughborough College during the 1950s. He was proficient academically and was a keen sportsman. Initially for both the Grammar School and Rhymney Valley
PETTS, RONALD JOHN (1914 - 1991), artist after Peter, his younger brother who had been evacuated from London, and working as a mountain guide for the Red Cross. During the war the poet Alun Lewis (1915-1944) contacted them, and following a meeting in 1941, came up with the idea of producing bilingual broadsheets combining Welsh poetry and engraving. Six 'Caseg broadsheets' were produced during 1941-2, and another 2 were prepared but not
PUDDICOMBE, ANNE ADALISA (Allen Raine; 1836 - 1908), novelist died). In 1909 there was published An Allen Raine Birthday Book. She contributed a number of short stories to various periodicals, and in Wales, 1897, vol. iv, there appears an English translation by her of Ceiriog's poem 'Alun Mabon.'
RANKIN, SUSANNAH JANE (1897 - 1989), minister (Cong.) and missionary in Papua contribution by conferring on her an Honorary M.A. degree in 1973. In presenting her for that degree, Alun Davies, professor of History at Swansea, referred to her 'not only as a preacher and religious educator, but … also a linguist and translator.' She retuned to Wales on numerous occasions over the years, visiting the different churches in turn, but it was sad to hear her say in 1973 that it was going to
RICHARDS, ALUN MORGAN (1929 - 2004), screenwriter, playwright, and author Alun Richards was born on 27 October 1929 in Caerphilly, the son of Edward Morgan Richards (1891-1976), a commercial traveller, and his wife Megan (née Jeremy, 1905-1977). His parents were married in London in April 1929. Three days after Alun was born, his father abandoned his mother, and Alun grew up in the home of his maternal grandparents, Thomas (c.1870-1939) and Jessie (1877-1955), in the
RICHARDS, THOMAS (1754 - 1837), cleric degree. He began to keep school at Berriw, Montgomeryshire, March 1813, and also served as curate of Montgomery. He was in touch with many literary Welshmen of his age, and John Blackwell (Alun) and Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) were pupils of his. He was local secretary of the Bible Society and a promoter of the publication of Welsh magazines. When his father declined the benefice of Llangynyw
ROBERTS, EVELYN BEATRICE (Lynette) (1909 - 1995), poet and prose writer in the volume. Addressed to the soldier and poet Alun Lewis, the poem is an invitation to Llanybri, but beyond this invites the reader to share in and defend the cultural heritage of Wales. In this sense, Roberts can be seen as aligning herself with a poetic tradition that goes back to Taliesin in the sixth century, that of the poet as the preserver and defender of a besieged culture. In 1948
ROBERTS, JOHN (1842 - 1908), Calvinistic Methodist missionary study, mainly medical, in Edinburgh, and on 6 January 1871 was ordained at Salem, Dolgelley. On 31 May of that year he married Sidney Margaret, (1850-1931), daughter of Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), a true fellow-worker. They sailed for India on 27 September 1871, settling first in Shella, but moving to Cherrapoongee five years later. As a pioneer Roberts undertook long and dangerous journeys to preach
ROBERTS, JOHN (Jack Russia; 1899 - 1979), miner, councillor and a prominent member of the Welsh Communist Party Councillor on Caerphilly Urban District Council. By this time he was hero to the inhabitants of Abertridwr. He cycled from the village all the way to London in 1936 to show his solidarity to the Unemployment March. On 1 January 1937 he left for Spain as a volunteer in the International Brigade. His companion was Alun Menai Williams, Penygraig, son of the Anglo-Welsh poet, Huw Menai. They were apprehended
ROBERTS, ROBERT ALUN (1894 - 1969), Professor of Agricultural Botany at University College, Bangor, and a naturalist 1945 he returned to University College of North Wales, Bangor and was appointed the first Professor of Agricultural Botany. He held this post until his retirement in 1960. Alun Roberts worked diligently to establish a strong department in Bangor and developed his own incomparable style of imparting knowledge to his students. He contributed numerous articles and papers to scientific journals. For a
ROBERTS, ROBERT ELLIS VAUGHAN (1888 - 1962), headmaster and naturalist ). He was co-editor and contributor to the Chester and North Wales Natural Society from 1947-1954. He was awarded the Kinsey Memorial Medal in 1934 ' for material contributions to several branches of natural science '. He and Prof. R. Alun Roberts were the first experts on the Welsh radio naturalist programme Byd Natur which started in January 1951. In the last decade of his life he was dealt a

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