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JOHN, BRYNMOR THOMAS (1934 - 1988), Labour politician charisma. But it was easy to underestimate him, and he had a witty felicity in debate. He married on 6 August 1960 Anne Pryce Hughes, the daughter of David L. Hughes. They had one son and one daughter. They lived at 'Yalehaven', Church Village, near Pontypridd. His hobby was watching rugby football. He died on 13 December 1988 at St Thomas's hospital, London after suffering a heart attack and was
JONES, IORWERTH (1913 - 1992), minister, author and editor - the free library in Brock Street, the baths in the poorest areas of the city, the films and the 'variety' and plays in the theatres, and the football in Goodison Park. His dedication to the blue shirts of Everton was constant and unyielding! By the time he reached the sixth form his mind was set on serving in the Christian Ministry. By now his family were members of Great Mersey St. Independent
JONES, JOHN JAMES (1892 - 1957), teacher, librarian, scholar and linguist of Welsh Biography, and wrote the introduction to the section on Welsh proverbs in Racial proverbs … edited by S.G. Champion (Routledge, 1938). His relaxations were chess and an occasional novel. He enjoyed watching football and cricket and was an enthusiastic bowls player. His hardness of hearing made conversation difficult for him and he developed interests such as these, which did not depend on
JONES, Sir LEWIS (1884 - 1968), industrialist and politician University of Wales in 1954. Lewis Jones was a native Welsh -speaker, and was one of the first members of Gwynfryn Independent chapel, Ammanford, when it was founded in 1903. For many years he was a member of Swansea Cricket and Swansea Football Club. He married in 1911 Alice Maud, daughter of Frederick W. Willis of Bath. There were two sons. The younger was killed while on active service in India in 1947
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player lower Swansea Valley at the time. The young Jack Kelsey attended Cwm School, leaving at a young age to join his father in the tinplate industry, later becoming a crane driver, before completing his national service. He played football for Winch Wen FC in the Swansea and District League, a club his father served as chairman for 12 years, and where his extraordinary talents as a goalkeeper impressed
teulu KENRICK Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, practice at Ruabon. He was clerk to the Ruabon magistrates, 1896-1933, and was coroner for east Denbighshire from 1906 until his death. In his younger days he took an active part in association football and founded the Football Association of Wales in the season 1875-6. He was acclaimed as the founder by Sir Evan Morris when the first Welsh cup was presented to the winners in 1879. The cup had been won
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (1893 - 1982), architect and Lord Mayor of Liverpool of that divided city, Willy Brandt. The early 1960s was a period of regeneration for Liverpool and of popular cultural activities on the banks of the Mersey. Everton football club won the English championship in 1962-63 but Lewis preferred to watch cricket or rugby. Similarly, the singing of popular groups of the time, such as the Beatles, was not to his taste and he continued to take an interest
LEWIS, THOMAS (1868 - 1953), Principal of Brecon Memorial College conduct singing festivals and eisteddfodau in the Brecon area. He inherited also physical strength and style which gave him the ability to excel in sport and football. The children were raised in a chapel culture and Thomas Lewis never lost his respect for Thomas Charles ' Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol. His childhood home was the small holding of Pen-lan in the parish of Cynwyl Elfed. His father used to conduct
LLEWELYN, WILLIAM CRAVEN (1892 - 1966), colliery owner, companies director, agriculturalist and specialist in forestry . He was president of the Swansea Chamber of Commerce in 1944-45 and was appointed High Sheriff for Brecknockshire in the same year. Among his other public activities he was president of the Swansea Town Association Football Club and a member of the Farmers' Union of Wales. He compiled two important works in connection with forestry in Wales, Afforestation of Wales (1915) and Forest soils of Wales
LLOYD, DAVID JOHN (1886 - 1951), headmaster the Sixth Form, making Grove Park one of the schools with the largest Sixth Form in Wales. The headmaster took pride in the school's success both academically and on the playing field. Football was reintroduced into the curriculum in 1941 and the school cricket team won considerable fame in 1944 at the final match in the McAlpine cup competition. On the occasion of his retirement in 1946 the
MEREDITH, WILLIAM (1874 - 1958), footballer Born 28 July 1874 in Chirk, Denbighshire, the son of James and Jane Meredith. He was one of ten children; his brother Samuel became a football player with Stoke City and Leyton and won eight international caps for Wales. But Billy was the most talented player of the family. He profited greatly from the early training he had received from his teacher at Chirk school, Thomas E. Thomas, the first
MERRETT, Sir HERBERT HENRY (1886 - 1959), industrialist published in 1932, described his early skirmishes within the Welsh coal industry and his part in its troubled history. In his 'teens he won a reputation as a footballer and played for the Cardiff Corinthians, a prestigious amateur soccer team, and he subsequently qualified as a referee. He was appointed chairman of the Cardiff City Association Football Club in 1939 and with one short break, and despite

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