Background
Gwenallt was born in Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest son of Thomas ‘Ehedydd’ Jones and his wife Mary.
Gwenallt was born in Pontardawe, Glamorganshire, the eldest son of Thomas ‘Ehedydd’ Jones and his wife Mary.
Aberystwyth University.
He created his bardic name by transposing Alltwen, the name of the village across the river from his birthplace. Conscripted into the Army in 1917 during World War I, he declared himself a conscientious objector and was imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs before being transferred to Princetown Work Centre in the former Dartmoor Prison to May 1919, an experience he wrote about in his 1934 novel Plasau"r Brenin. In 1919 he enrolled at University College Wales, Aberystwyth, where he met the writer Idwal Jones whose biography he was to write in 1958.
Jones took his Master of Arts in 1929 and he was awarded a Doctorate.Litt honoris causa by the University of Wales in 1967.
Christian themes are present in much of his work, not least in Y Coed, which was published following a visit to the Holy Land. He is buried at Aberystwyth.
A memorial plaque was placed on his house, Rhydymôr, Ffordd Rheidol, Penparcau, a village near Aberystwyth, in 1997. Allchin, Donald and Doctorate. Densil Morgan.
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Cambria.
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He was elected as Member of Parliament for The Hartlepools at the 1945 general election, and held the seat until his defeat by only 182 votes at the 1959 general election.
Member of Pontypridd urban district council for many years also active in trade union affairs (NUR).