Gwilym Tilsley
Illustration — Tilsley (center) at the National Eisteddfod of Wales 1950, Caerphilly Rev. Gwilym Richard Tilsley (26 May 1911 – 30 August 1997), commonly known by his bardic name of "Tilsli", was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales between 1969 and 1972. He was born in Tŷ Llwyd near Llanidloes and educated at Manledd primary school, Llanidloes County School, the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and Wesley House, Cambridge, before entering the (Wesleyan) Methodist ministry.
Gwilym Tilsley
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- Died
- 1997.
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- poet and christian minister.
- Education
- Aberystwyth University and Wesley House.
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This experience of the itinerant life of a Methodist minister in both north and south Wales inspired the two heroic poems to the industrial worker which brought him to prominence: He won the chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales at Caerphilly in 1950 for a poem Moliant i'r Glöwr in praise of the coal miner, and again at Llangefni in 1957 with the poem Cwm Carnedd about the life of the slate quarryman. Tilsley wrote the words of several Welsh hymns, including Am ffydd, nefol dad, y deisyfwn ("I beseech Thee for faith, O Heavenly Father") He married Anne Eluned Jones (1908–2003) in 1945.
• Y glöwr a cherddi eraill (1957)
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- 1.Go Britannia!.
- 2.Epworth Press. A Dictionary of Methodism in Britain and Ireland. 353. 2000. 9780716205340.
- 3.Winners of the Chair. National Eisteddfod of Wales.
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