• Gwyn Jones CBE (24 May 1907 – 6 December 1999) was a Welsh novelist and story writer, and a scholar and translator of Nordic literature and history. Gwyn...
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  • Gwyn Jones may refer to: Gwyn Jones (author) (1907–1999), Welsh historian, translator and story writer Gwyn Jones (figure skater) (born 1939), South African...
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  • and former Olympic runner Gwyn Cready (born 1962), American author Gwyn Davies (rugby) (1908–1992), Welsh rugby player Gwyn Davies (1919–1995), Welsh...
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    sister, though that connection was not made by the medieval author(s) of Culhwch and Olwen. Gwyn plays a prominent role in the early Arthurian tale Culhwch...
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  • Welsh Verse in English is a 1977 poetry anthology edited by the author and academic Gwyn Jones. It covers both Welsh language poetry in English translation...
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  • pianist (born 1905) 6 December Alexander Baron, author and screenwriter (born 1917) Gwyn Jones, author (born 1907) 7 December – Kenny Baker, jazz trumpeter...
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    Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017) was a British photographer. He is best known internationally...
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  • words "Eira" (snow) and "Gwyn" (white, fair or blessed). Eirwyn George (born 1936), Welsh poet, writer and author Gwilym Eirwyn Jones [cy] (1922–1994), Welsh...
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  • Otherworld in Welsh mythology. Ruled by Arawn (or, in Arthurian literature, by Gwyn ap Nudd), it was essentially a world of delights and eternal youth where...
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  • BBC Radio 5. He was the author of books on the sport of rugby; including several on the history of rugby in Wales. Parry-Jones was born in Pontypridd on...
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    Richard Gwyn (ca. 1537 – 15 October 1584), also known by his anglicized name, Richard White, was a Welsh teacher at illegal and underground schools and...
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  • Dublin. Jones held the chair in Welsh language at Aberystwyth from 1980 until his retirement. He died on 22 November 2017. "Bobi Jones is an author of great...
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  • judge Uzo Iwobi, lecturer John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist, malacologist Ernest Jones, psychoanalyst John Viriamu Jones, mathematician, physicist David...
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  • List of Canadian short story writers List of Canadian science fiction authors List of Canadian historians List of Canadian women writers in French List...
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  • Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "Gwyn [Wynne, Jones], Robert". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford...
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  • the Wolves of the Beyond fantasy novel series by Kathryn Lasky Gwyneth "Gwyn" Berdara, a character from the A Court of Thorns and Roses fantasy series...
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  • (Wil Ifan) (1883–1968) Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) (1895–1970) William Richard Philip George (1912–2006) John Gwyn Griffiths (1911–2004) Elis Gruffydd...
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  • Gwynne is an Anglified spelling of the Welsh name Gwyn which means 'white' or/and 'blessed'. Gwynne Dyer (b. 1943), male Canadian journalist G. Blakemore...
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    Foreword by Douglas Gwyn", New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-58930-4 Endy, Melvin B.: "The Interpretation of Quakerism. Rufus Jones and His Critics", in:...
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  • Greene (1904–1991) Davis Grubb (1919–1980) Richard Guest (born 1967) Aaron Gwyn (born 1972) Hubert Haddad (born 1947) Per Hallström (1866–1960) Edmond Hamilton...
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    Madoc maecte" (Willem, the author of Madoc, known as "Willem the Minstrel"). Though no copies of Willem's "Madoc" survive, Gwyn Williams tells us that "In...
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  • elements borrowed from Mabinogion. Set in contemporary Wales, they feature Gwyn Griffiths, a boy descended from Gwydion who discovers and develops some of...
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  • correspondents included: Glyn Jones, Doris Lessing, W. Somerset Maugham, George Ewart Evans, Gareth Hughes (a first cousin), Gwyn Jones, Gwyn Thomas, Dylan Thomas...
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    cave]"), while Llan-vair-pwll-gwyn-gyll-goger-bwll-dysilio-gogo appears in a paper on placenames published in 1849, its author noting that "the name was generally...
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  • Mari Gwyn (Mari Gwyn’s Diary) dealing with the persecution of Catholics in Elizabeth I's reign and focusing on the Elizabethan Welsh writer Robert Gwyn. This...
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  • Elvet Jones (1912–1989), Wales and British Lions rugby international Gwyn Jones (rugby union) (born 1972), Wales rugby union player Ivor Jones (1901–1982)...
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    until 2010, was created by David P. O'Brien of PanCanadian Petroleum and Gwyn Morgan of the Alberta Energy Company through the merger of their companies...
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    March 1863 – 15 December 1947) was the pen-name of Arthur Llewellyn Jones, a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known...
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  • screenwriter, and author Nell Fortner (born 1959), American women's college basketball coach Nell Freudenberger (born 1975), American novelist Nell Gwyn (1650–1687)...
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    2018. In spring 2005, with her husband Eric Abraham and publisher Philip Gwyn-Jones, she founded the publishing house Portobello Books, and that autumn Rausing...
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