Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Carmarthen was a selective secondary school in
Carmarthen
Carmarthen (, RP: ; cy, Caerfyrddin , "Merlin's fort" or "Sea-town fort") is the county town of Carmarthenshire and a community in Wales, lying on the River Towy. north of its estuary in Carmarthen Bay. The population was 14,185 in 2011, ...
,
Carmarthenshire
Carmarthenshire ( cy, Sir Gaerfyrddin; or informally ') is a county in the south-west of Wales. The three largest towns are Llanelli, Carmarthen and Ammanford. Carmarthen is the county town and administrative centre. The county is known as ...
. It closed in 1978.
Former students
Among the school's former pupils were the educationalist
Griffith Jones; the early Methodist leader and Bible publisher
Peter Williams; the senior Admiralty civil servant
Sir Walter St David Jenkins; the clergyman
James Rice Buckley; the Welsh poet
William Saunders; the Welsh international rugby players,
Roy Bergiers
Roy Thomas Edmond Bergiers (born 11 November 1950) is a Welsh former rugby union player. Born in Carmarthen, he played his club rugby for Llanelli RFC
Llanelli Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Llanelli) is a Welsh rugby union club founde ...
,
Gerald Davies
Thomas Gerald Reames Davies CBE DL (born 7 February 1945 in Llansaint) is a Welsh former rugby union wing who played international rugby for Wales between 1966 and 1978. He is one of a small group of Welsh players to have won three Grand Slams ...
and
Ray Gravell
Raymond William Robert Gravell (12 September 1951 – 31 October 2007) was a Welsh rugby union centre who played club rugby for Llanelli RFC.
At international level, Gravell earned 23 caps for Wales and was selected for the 1980 British Lions ...
;, the tennis commentator and journalist
Gerald Williams. and the journalist and author
Byron Rogers
Byron Giles Rogers (August 1, 1900 – December 31, 1983) was an American politician from Colorado.
Early life
Rogers was the son of Peter and Minnie May Rogers. Born in Greenville, Texas, he moved with his parents to Oklahoma in April 1902. He ...
.
Old boys who have excelled in the political sphere include
Denzil Davies
David John Denzil Davies (9 October 1938 – 10 October 2018) was a Welsh Labour Party politician. He served for 35 years as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Llanelli from 1970 to 2005, and was a member of the Privy Council.
Early life
Dav ...
and
Mark Drakeford
Mark Drakeford (born 19 September 1954) is a Welsh politician serving as First Minister of Wales and Leader of Welsh Labour since 2018. He previously served in the Welsh Government as Cabinet Secretary for Finance from 2016 to 2018 and Minist ...
, who was appointed First Minister of Wales in 2018.
References
Defunct schools in Wales
Grammar schools in Wales
Buildings and structures in Carmarthen
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