Alun Lewis was a Welsh poet. He is one of the best-known English-language war poets of the Second World War. His poetry centers around a "recurring obsession with the themes of isolation and death."
Cowbridge is a market town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, approximately 12 miles (19 km) west of the centre of Cardiff.
Sir Leoline Jenkins was a Welsh academic, diplomat involved in the negotiation of international treaties, jurist and politician. He was a clerical lawyer who served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1668 to 1685, and enjoyed a high reputation for judicial integrity. As a statesman he served as Secretary of State from 1680 to 1684.
Sir Lewis Morris was a Welsh academic and politician. He was also a popular poet of the Anglo-Welsh school.
Patrick Hannan MBE was a Welsh political journalist, author and television and radio presenter.
Edward Llewellyn Treharne was a Welsh rugby union forward who played club rugby for Pontypridd and Cardiff, and international rugby for Wales. He was a member of the first Wales international team that played England in 1881. At the time of the game he was still a student at Cowbridge, and later became a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 to Wales and its people.
Rev. John Pettingall D.D. was a Welsh Church of England clergyman and antiquarian.
This page is a list of High Sheriffs of Glamorgan. Sheriffs of Glamorgan served under and were answerable to the independent Lords of Glamorgan until that lordship was merged into the crown. This is in contrast to sheriffs of the English shires who were from the earliest times officers of the crown. Sheriffs in the modern sense, appointed and answerable to the crown, were instituted in the county of Glamorgan in 1541.
John Pryce was a Welsh clergyman and writer on church history, who became Dean of Bangor Cathedral.
Walter Rice Evans was a Welsh international rugby union player, who won three caps between 1890 and 1891.
John Walters was a Welsh Anglican priest and poet.
Sir John Stradling, 1st Baronet, was an English poet, scholar and politician.
Pontypridd High School is an English-medium comprehensive school in the village of Cilfynydd near Pontypridd, in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Evan Evans was Master of Pembroke College, Oxford from 1864 to 1891, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1878 to 1882.
Evan Seys (1604–1685) was an eminent lawyer of his day who rose to national office under Oliver Cromwell as Attorney General, and served as a member of parliament after the Restoration. From c.1649 until his death he was involved in the politics of his native Glamorgan, and of Gloucestershire. He was a committed and active Protestant and an antiquarian scholar.
David Durell D.D. (1728–1775) was Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, from 1757 to 1775, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1765 to 1768, and a noted Old Testament scholar of his day.
Taliesin Williams was a Welsh poet and author, and son of the notable Iolo Morganwg.
A bibliography of books related to the Vale of Glamorgan, south Wales.
Sir Edward Stradling (1529–1609) was a Welsh politician, antiquary and literary patron.
