T. H. Parry-Williams

He was a conscientious objector during the First World War. He was Professor of Welsh at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, from 1920 until 1952. He co-founded the university's Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. In 1931, while Parry-Williams was Professor of Welsh at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he published his own scholarly edition of the complete extant poems of Elizabethan era Welsh poet and Catholic martyr St. Richard Gwyn, along with original source material about his life in Middle Welsh, Elizabethan English, and Renaissance Latin. He was awarded D.Litt. Degrees by the Universities of Wales (1934) and Oxford (1937). He was knighted in 1958. He was also given an honorary doctorate by the University of Wales in 1960 and made an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1968.

• Honorific Prefix — Y Prifardd • Name — Sir T. H. Parry-Williams • Born — 21 September 1887 • Birthplace — Tŷ'r Ysgol, Rhyd Ddu, Caernarfonshire, Wales • Died — 3 March 1975 • Place of death — Wern, North Road, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, Wales • Resting Place — Beddgelert Cemetery, Beddgelert, Gwynedd, Wales • Education — Ysgol Eifionydd, Porthmadog • Alma Mater — * University College of Wales, Aberystwyth • Jesus College, Oxford • University of Freiburg • Sorbonne, University of Paris • Occupation — Academic, author and poet • Notable Works — "Hon" • Title — Emeritus Professor of Welsh Language and Literature • Spouse — Emiah Jane Thomas (1910–1988) • Parents — Henry Parry-Williams (1858–1925) and Ann Morris (b. 1859) • Relatives — Robert Williams Parry (1884–1956) and Sir Thomas Parry (1904–1985) (1st cousins) • Awards — National Eisteddfod Chair (1912 and 1915); National Eisteddfod Crown (1912 and 1915); D.Litt. (Wales) (1934); D.Litt. (Oxon.) (1937); Kt (1958)