Terry D. Breverton (born 1946) is a British former businessman and academic who has written many books on subjects mainly related to
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
and seamen.
Life
Terry Breverton was born in Birmingham in 1946.
His parents were Welsh, and he was brought up in Wales.
He studied in England at the universities of
Manchester
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and
Lancaster.
He worked for many years in international business and consultancy.
He was a management consultant in the production industry, and a marketing director.
Breverton then became an academic, and lectured in
Milan
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,
Bologna
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and Wales.
He has been a senior lecturer at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff and a Fellow of the
Institute of Consulting
The Institute of Consulting (IC) is the professional body for consultants and business advisers in the United Kingdom. It replaced the former Institute of Business Consulting (IBC) in January 2011, which was itself formed as the merger of two pre ...
and a Fellow of the
Chartered Institute of Marketing
The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) was founded in 1911. It has over 30,000 members, including more than 3,000 registered Chartered Marketers. CIM offers 130 study centres in 36 countries, and exam centres in 132 countries.
In 1952 Prince ...
. He was awarded the Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship award of the
University of Indiana
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universit ...
in 2003, has twice been a guest speaker at the North American Festival of Wales (NAFOW) at Vancouver in 2003 and Washington in 2007 and gave the prestigious Bemis Lecture at Lincoln, Massachusetts in 2008.
Breverton has said that the skills he developed in research and writing as a management consultant transferred easily into writing history books.
In 2000 Breverton founded Glyndŵr Publishing and WalesBooks.com.
Glyndŵr Publishing published books by Breverton and other authors who were unable to get their non-fiction work on Wales accepted by other publishers.
Since 2008 he has been a full-time writer and editor, mainly writing for Apple, Quercus and Amberley.
He has also presented documentaries on the
Discovery Channel
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and the
History Channel
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.
Breverton is interested in reviving interest in Welsh culture and history, which has been the main focus of his books.
He has said, "The Welsh are treated as second-class citizens, and live in a country that is one of the most economically backward in Europe. They are rapidly becoming a minority in their own country."
Meic Stephens
Meic Stephens (23 July 1938 – 2 July 2018) was a Welsh literary editor, journalist, translator, and poet.
Birth and education
Meic Stephens was born on 23 July 1938 in the village of Treforest, near Pontypridd, Glamorgan. He was educated at ...
wrote of Breverton's ''100 Great Welshmen'' and ''
100 Great Welsh Women
''100 Great Welsh Women'' is a collection of short biographies of prominent women from Wales, or of Welsh origin, published in 2001 by Terry Breverton.
It covers women from all walks of life, including athletes, actresses, saints, singers and qu ...
'' in the ''Western Mail Magazine'' on 16 March 2002, "These are not necessarily books that you want to read from cover to cover, but to browse in ... Both are really extraordinary achievements by a single author whose industry and enterprise seem to show no bounds."
Breverton has won the Welsh Books Council "English Book of the Month" award on five occasions.
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1946 births
Living people
Welsh writers