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| Founder(s) | Richard Steele [1] |
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| Language | English |
| City | Aberystwyth |
| OCLC number | 751651465 |
The Aberystwyth Times was a weekly newspaper published in Aberystwyth and circulated nationally in Wales, founded by Richard Steele. Most of the paper was in English, with a section in Welsh. [2]
Welsh Newspapers Online has digitised eighty-nine issues of the Aberystwyth Times (1868-1870) from the newspaper holdings of the National Library of Wales. [2]
Newtown Association Football Club is a Welsh football club based in Newtown, Powys, which plays in the Cymru Premier. Newtown are one of only two clubs that can claim unbroken membership of the league since its formation in 1992, with the other club being Aberystwyth Town.
Aberystwyth University is a public research university in Aberystwyth, Wales. Aberystwyth was a founding member institution of the former federal University of Wales. The university has over 8,000 students studying across 3 academic faculties and 17 departments.
The University of Wales was a confederal university based in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded by Royal Charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges – Aberystwyth, Bangor and Cardiff – the university was the first and oldest university in Wales, one of the four countries in the United Kingdom. The university was the second largest university in the UK.
The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales and is one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies. It is the biggest library in Wales, holding over 6.5 million books and periodicals, and the largest collections of archives, portraits, maps and photographic images in Wales. The Library is also home to the national collection of Welsh manuscripts, the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales, and the most comprehensive collection of paintings and topographical prints in Wales. As the primary research library and archive in Wales and one of the largest research libraries in the United Kingdom, the National Library is a member of Research Libraries UK (RLUK) and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).
Sir John Herbert Lewis was a Welsh Liberal politician.
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The United Theological College located in Aberystwyth, in the county of Ceredigion in mid Wales, was the ministerial training college of the Presbyterian Church of Wales from 1906 to 2003 and an associate college of the University of Wales. According to the Cardiganshire County History, 'Theol Coll' opened in Aberystwyth in 1906 on the seafront site of the former Customs House. This in turn was demolished and the stone-built Cambrian Hotel was built on the site in 1896 to the design of George Croydon Marks, engineer to the Aberystwyth Improvement Company.
Sir John Williams, 1st Baronet, was a Welsh physician, who attended Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and was raised to the baronetcy by her in 1894. He is remembered chiefly for his contribution to the collection of the National Library of Wales. He resided for part of his life at Plas Llanstephan, Carmarthenshire, a house he acquired by lease.
The office of High Sheriff of Cardiganshire was established in 1541, since when a high sheriff was appointed annually until 1974 when the office was transformed into that of High Sheriff of Dyfed as part of the creation of Dyfed from the amalgamation of Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. Between the Edwardian Conquest of Wales in 1282 and the establishment of the High Sheriff of Cardiganshire, the sheriff's duties were mainly the responsibility of the coroner and the Custos Rotulorum of Cardiganshire. The office of High Sheriff remained first in precedence in the county until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire the prime office under the Crown as the sovereign's personal representative.
The Cambrian News is a weekly newspaper distributed in Wales. It was founded in 1860 and is based in Cefn Llan Science Park, Aberystwyth. Cambrian News Ltd was bought by media entrepreneur Sir Ray Tindle in 1998.
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Richard Ellis was a Welsh librarian and bibliographer, whose main work was to collect materials on the life and work of Edward Lhuyd.
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Sir Thomas Parry FBA was a Welsh author and academic. He was Librarian of the National Library of Wales from 1953 to 1958, Principal of the University College of Wales Aberystwyth from 1958 to 1969 and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales from 1961 to 1963 and 1967 to 1969.
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Sir William Elwyn Edwards Jones was a Welsh solicitor and Labour politician elected as Labour MP for Conway in 1950. He served as town clerk of Bangor from 1939 to 1969. He was knighted in 1978.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
The 1910–11 Welsh Amateur Cup was the 21st season of the Welsh Amateur Cup. The cup was won by Buckley Engineers who defeated Aberystwyth 1-0 in the final at Newtown.