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Myfanwy (given Name)
Myfanwy (, ) is a feminine given name popularised by the Welsh song, '' Myfanwy'' composed by Joseph Parry and first published in 1875. The name may refer to: * Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970), Canadian artist * Myfanwy Bekker, South African artist * Myfanwy Fychan (born mid-14th century), Welsh noblewoman, subject of many poems * Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963), Welsh poet * Myfanwy Horne (1933–2013), Australian journalist, writer, reviewer and book editor * Myfanwy Howell, Welsh television broadcaster * Myfanwy Macleod (born 1961), Canadian artist * Myfanwy Pavelic (1916–2007), Canadian portrait painter * Myfanwy Piper (1911–1997), British art critic and opera librettist * Myfanwy Pryce (1890–1976), Welsh novelist and short story writer * Myfanwy Talog (1944–1995), Welsh actress * Myfanwy Warhurst Myfanwy Warhurst (, born May 29, 1973) is an Australian radio announcer and television personality, best known for her work at Triple J radio station and on ABC Television' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh Language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically, it has also been known in English as "British", "Cambrian", "Cambric" and "Cymric". The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales. Both the Welsh and English languages are ''de jure'' official languages of the Welsh Parliament, the Senedd. According to the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the Welsh-speaking population of Wales aged three or older was 17.8% (538,300 people) and nearly three quarters of the population in Wales said they had no Welsh language skills. Other estimates suggest that 29.7% (899,500) of people aged three or older in Wales could speak Welsh in June 2022. Almost half of all Welsh speakers consider themselves fluent Welsh speakers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Waring
Myfanwy Waring (born 1977) is a Welsh actress, best known for her role as PC Amber Johannsen in the British drama series ''The Bill''. Her most recent on screen role was a minor role in BBC Birmingham's daytime soap opera ''Doctors'' playing Radio producer Cerys Williams. Biography Waring was born in Dyfed, Wales in 1977. She studied acting at Rose Bruford College in London. Waring made her screen debut as a credited extra in ''Club Le Monde'' (2002). She next appeared in 2003's '' The Modernista'', a short film produced as part of the 48 Hour Film Project. Waring played "Woman" alongside Louis Waymouth as "Man". Over the next few years, she appeared in small roles in '' dot the i'', ''One Man and His Dog'', ''Animal'', and '' Ripper 2: Letter from Within'', the sequel to 2001's ''Ripper''. Her first television role was that of PC Amber Johannsen in the British police procedural ''The Bill''. She appeared on the show from December 2004 through December 2005. Waring has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Warhurst
Myfanwy Warhurst (, born May 29, 1973) is an Australian radio announcer and television personality, best known for her work at Triple J radio station and on ABC Television's long-running music-themed quiz show '' Spicks and Specks''. she has an ongoing role as Australia's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest alongside Joel Creasey, and as co-host of the weekly podcast ''Bang On''. She also provides the voice of Aunt Trixie and Indy's Mum in the Australian animated show '' Bluey''. Early life Warhurst was born in Portland, Victoria, in 1973. She has three older brothers named Kit and Andre. Kit plays drums in the band Rocket Science. Warhurst's family moved to Donald in central Victoria when she was a child, then to Red Cliffs in northwest Victoria when she was eight years old. Career Before her career as a radio announcer and TV personality, Warhurst was editor-in-chief of Melbourne street press ''Inpress''. Radio and podcasting Working as a radio announcer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Talog
Myfanwy Talog Williams ( 31 March 1944 – 11 March 1995), known professionally as Myfanwy Talog, was a Welsh actress and the long-term partner of English actor David Jason. Personal life Talog was born on 31 March 1944 in Caerwys, Flintshire and a plaque is currently on the house where she was born. She worked as a teacher before pursuing an acting career and appeared mainly on Welsh-language television, comedy and children's programmes. For the Welsh audience, she played the character of Phyllis Doris, the teen daughter of the family in the comedy series ''Ryan a Ronnie''. She later appeared in several English-language sitcoms and soap operas. She lived with David Jason and accompanied him to Buckingham Palace in 1993 to receive his OBE.Profile walesonline.co.uk; accessed 21 April 2014. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Pryce
Myfanwy Pryce (3 October 1890 – 16 March 1976) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer, author of nine published novels. Her works were admired for their gentle humour and literary technique. Early life and education Lucy Myfanwy Pryce was born in 1890, near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire,"Miss Myfanwy Pryce: Novels of the Parsonage" ''The Register'' (16 July 1827): 4. and lived at Rhyl, the youngest of seven daughters of Rev. Shadrach Pryce (1833–1914), the dean of St. Asaph Cathedral, and his wife Margaret Ellen Davies (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Piper
Mary ''Myfanwy'' Piper (; Welsh: ; 28 March 1911 – 18 January 1997) was a British art critic and opera librettist. Biography Mary Myfanwy Evans was born on 28 March 1911 into a Welsh family in London. Her father was a chemist in Hampstead, north London. She attended North London Collegiate School, where she won a scholarship to read English Language and Literature at St Hugh's College, Oxford. From 1935 to 1937, she edited the periodical ''Axis'' which was devoted to abstract art. She married the artist John Piper in 1937, and lived with him in rural surroundings at Fawley Bottom, Buckinghamshire (near Henley-on-Thames) for much of her life.Frances Spalding, ''John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in art''. Oxford University Press, 2009. . Between 1954 and 1973 she collaborated with the composer Benjamin Britten on several of his operas, and between 1977 and 1981 with composer Alun Hoddinott on most of his operatic works. She was a friend of the poet John Betjeman, who wrote sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Pavelic
Myfanwy Pavelic, (April 27, 1916 – May 7, 2007) née Spencer, was a Canadian portrait artist. Early life and career Born in Victoria, British Columbia to an upper-class family, her first interests in fine art came after meeting with Emily Carr on Vancouver Island who later gave a brief series of instruction to Pavelic. Aside from a few months of study with a Yugoslav artist, she was self-taught as a painter. She studied at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal, Canada as a boarder. During the Second World War, she held a one-person exhibition of portraits in Canada and donated the proceeds to the Red Cross. She later married a diplomat and had one daughter who suffered a disability. Pavelic was one of few Canadian artists who had their work shown at the National Portrait Gallery, where her portrait of Yehudi Menuhin was displayed. She later donated the portrait of her friend to the National Portrait Gallery, making her the first known Canadian-born artist to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Howell
Myfanwy Howell was an early Welsh language radio and television broadcaster, host of '' Amser Te'' (Tea Time) in the 1950s. Early life Howell was from Llangefni, Anglesey. She was related to poet Denise Levertov's mother, Beatrice Spooner-Jones Levertoff. Scientist John Charnley remembered knowing Myfanwy Howell in Anglesey when he was a teenager evacuated to the island during World War II. Career Broadcasting In the early 1940s, during World War II, Howell was on radio with the BBC Home Service, contributing Welsh-language content on diet and for schoolchildren. In the 1950s Howell was a program assistant in early radio and television productions based in Bangor, including '' Noson Lawen'' (A Merry Evening). In 1952 and 1954 she gave the "shopping report" on the BBC radio program ''Woman's Hour''. In 1952, she gave a recipe for Aberffrauw cakes (a shortbread variety associated with Anglesey) on ''Welsh Diary'' on the BBC's General Overseas Service, when Welsh speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy
''Myfanwy'' (; a woman's name derived ) is a popular Welsh song, composed by Joseph Parry and first published in 1875. Background Sources differ as to whether Dr. Parry composed the music for an existing poem by Richard Davies ("Mynyddog Mwynfawr"; 1833–1877) (the common belief) or whether Davies wrote the words to Parry's melody following its use with an English lyric by Thomas Walter Price (Cuhelyn; 1829 - 1869)(*1), journalist and poet, called "Arabella". Richard Davies' lyric may have been influenced by the 14th Century love story of Myfanwy Fychan of Castell Dinas Brân, Llangollen, and the poet Hywel ab Einion(*2). That story was also the subject of the popular poem, "Myfanwy Fychan" (1858), by John Ceiriog Hughes (1832–87). Some sources say it was written with Parry's childhood sweetheart, Myfanwy Llywellyn, in mind (*3). In 1947, Merthyr-Tydfil-born author Jack Jones wrote a book entitled ''Off to Philadelphia in the morning'' where he relates the story within some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Horne
Myfanwy Horne (23 July 1933 – 30 July 2013) was an Australian journalist, writer, reviewer and book editor. Early life Myfanwy Gollan was born in Newcastle on 23 July 1933 to Valmai (née Clack) and Ross Gollan, her father being a political journalist for ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. Myfanwy attended Canberra Girls' Grammar School and completed her schooling at Sydney Girls' High School. She graduated from the University of Sydney in 1951. Career In 1953 Myfanwy Gollan joined ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as a cadet journalist. She contributed to newspapers, magazines and books as a reviewer, columnist and social commentator. Myfanwy met fellow writer Donald Horne at a party thrown by Michael Baume in Kings Cross, Horne proposed a week later over dinner at the Chelsea, a restaurant in Kings Cross. In 1960, after marrying Donald Horne, she resigned from ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' as married women were restricted from occupying full-time positions at the newspaper. She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myfanwy Haycock
Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963) was a Welsh poet, illustrator, BBC broadcaster, and journalist. She was born Blodwen Myfanwy Haycock in Pontnewynydd, Wales, near Pontypool, in the traditional county of Monmouthshire, . Early life and education She was the youngest of three daughters born to James David Haycock, a miner and his wife, Alice Maud. She was educated locally at Cwm-ffrwd-oer Primary School and Pontypool Grammar School for Girls, entering Cardiff Technical College. She worked as a black and white illustrator but had success with her poetry, winning at the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Port Talbot in 1932. She decided to forsake a career as an art teacher for that of a freelance journalist. From 1936 she wrote poems and short stories and often illustrated them with woodcuts and black and white illustrations. These were regularly published in the Western Mail newspaper, based in Cardiff, and other South Wales papers. She also submitted work to journals and other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
