Carmarthen Grammar School Explained

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Carmarthen was a selective boys' secondary school[1] in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire.[2] It was founded in 1576 and closed in 1978.

Former students

Among the school's former pupils were the educationalist Griffith Jones;[3] the early Methodist leader and Bible publisher Peter Williams;[4] the senior Admiralty civil servant Sir Walter St David Jenkins;[5] the clergyman James Rice Buckley;[6] the Welsh poet William Saunders;[7] the Welsh international rugby players, Roy Bergiers, Gerald Davies and Ray Gravell;[8] the tennis commentator and journalist Gerald Williams[9] and the journalist and author Byron Rogers.[10]

Old boys who have excelled in the political sphere include Denzil Davies[11] and Mark Drakeford, who was appointed First Minister of Wales in 2018.[12]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB0211%20CARMARTHEN%20BOROUGH.pdf National Archives
  2. "Nineteenth-century Anglican Theological Training: The Redbrick Challenge" Dowland,D.A: Oxford, OUP, 1997
  3. David Jones, Life and Times of Griffith Jones (1902) online
  4. s-WILL-PET-1723 . Williams, Peter (1723-1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator. Gomer M. . Roberts . 1959.
  5. s-EVAN-JEN-1856 . Evans, Walter Jenkin . Thomas Oswald . Williams . 1959 . yes.
  6. http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/john/16.html Victorian Web.
  7. s-SAUN-WIL-1806 . Saunders, William . William Roger . Hughes . yes . 16 October 2019.
  8. Web site: Obituary: Ray Gravell . 2 November 2007 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20220809133624/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.rugbyunion . 9 August 2022 . live .
  9. News: Des Lynam pays tribute to Gerry Williams, the BBC's voice of tennis. Jim White. 21 January 2016. The Daily Telegraph. 22 January 2016.
  10. Byron Rogers, Me: The Authorised Biography, Aurum, London, 2009.
  11. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/15/denzil-davies-obituary
  12. Web site: Deans . David . Who is Mark Drakeford? . BBC News . 6 December 2018 . 6 December 2018.

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