X-Nico

unusual facts about Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen



Aberavon RFC

One theory of the nickname 'The Wizards' is thought to have been based on the many workers who came to Port Talbot in the 19th century from the Carmarthen area, strongly associated with the legendary wizard Merlin.

Andy Cato

Cato was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Wakefield, followed by the University of Oxford (Merton College), where he studied history.

Audley-Stanley family

1175 –, Lord of the Welsh Marches, governor of Carmarthen castle and Cardigan Castle, Sheriff of Salop and Staffordshire from 1216 until 1221, constable of Shrewsbury Castle and Bridgnorth Castle,Governor of Shrewsbury, Chester Castle and Beeston Castle, governor of Newcastle-under-Lyne.

Bank of British West Africa

1891 Elder Dempster shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones (born in Carmarthen, Wales in 1845) and George William Neville (born at Richmond, near London in 1852), the local agent of Elder Dempster & Co. of Liverpool, attempted to develop a banking operation along the Guinea coast

BBC Cymru Wales

In addition to these properties, BBC Cymru Wales also has properties in Aberystwyth, Bangor, Carmarthen, Newtown, Penrhyndeudraeth and Wrexham and at BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff, home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

Bro Myrddin Welsh Comprehensive School

Myrddin, the Welsh name of the legendary figure Merlin, is traditionally associated with the town of Carmarthen (Caerfyrddin: Myrddin's fort), and Bro Myrddin means "Myrddin's country (or vale)".

Carmarthen Public Rooms

In 1918 an article appeared in the Carmarthen Journal stating that in future the Carmarthen 'Assembly Rooms' were to be called 'The Lyric'.

Charles Neville

Charles William Nevill, British Member of Parliament for Carmarthen, 1874–1876

Dynevor

Baron Dynevor, officially Baron Dinevor, of Dinevor in the County of Carmarthen

Edward Tenison

Stanhope, George, A Letter from the Prolocutor to the Reverend Dr. Edward Tenison, Archdeacon of Carmarthen, 1718

Emyr Lewis

A flanker, he played his club rugby for Cardiff RFC, but played his best rugby for Llanelli RFC and Carmarthen Athletic.

Ferryside

The village has a railway station which has regular rail connections to London Paddington, Pembroke Dock, Milford Haven, Carmarthen, Swansea, Cardiff, Crewe and Manchester Picadilly, regular buses between Carmarthen and Llanelli.

Frances Claudia Wright

Smith had served as puisine judge on the Gold Coast after attending QEGS in Wakefield, England.

Glyndwr Jones

Glyndwr is the son of Gwynoro Jones, the former Welsh Labour and SDP politician, who was Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Carmarthen from 1970 until October 1974.

Gwynfor Evans

In the 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.

Hector Munro Chadwick

He was born in Thornhill, West Yorkshire, and was educated at Wakefield Grammar School and Clare College, Cambridge.

John Jones of Ystrad

John Jones "of Ystrad" (September 15, 1777 – November 10, 1842), was a Welsh politician, MP for Carmarthen from 1821 to 1832.

Lampeter, Aberayron and New Quay Light Railway

This milk creamery provided much extra traffic during its construction, plus after its opening it provided large quantities of milk traffic using six-wheel milk tankers which was taken firstly to Lampeter, then combined with milk traffic from Pont Llanio milk creamery near Tregaron on the Carmarthen and Aberystwyth line to the freight yards in Carmarthen where they would be combined with other milk tankers from Whitland and other West Wales milk creameries and then on to London.

Malcolm Parry

In the first series of Building on the Past, Parry visited the towns of Newport, Newtown, Blaenavon, Carmarthen, Criccieth and Machynlleth, and in the second series Anglesey, Swansea, Presteigne, Lampeter, Merthyr, and Haverfordwest, relating the history of each town to its architecture.

Michael D. Jones

After training for the ministry in Carmarthen and London, he emigrated to America and was ordained at Cincinnati.

Myddfai Steep Belt

It extends for tens of miles across country from near Carmarthen northeastwards via Mynydd Myddfai, Mynydd Bach Trecastell and Mynydd Epynt to the vicinity of Llangammarch Wells.

Nia Griffith

Griffith became a teacher at Queen Elizabeth Cambria School in Carmarthen then Gowerton Comprehensive School in Swansea.

Nicky Stevens

At the age of four she was singing in a chapel in Carmarthen, and following lessons eventually joined the Hywel Girls Choir.

Peter Rees Jones

Jones was born in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Thomas Jones, a hat maker, and at the age of 24, after serving an apprenticeship with a draper in Carmarthen, and with £14 savings in his pocket, he moved to London.

Ralph Verney

Ralph Verney, 2nd Earl Verney (1714–1791), his son, English MP for Wendover 1753–1761, Carmarthen and for Buckinghamshire

Raymond Garlick

But in 1967 he returned to Britain, and eventually he became a Principal Lecturer, in charge of the Welsh Studies course, at Trinity College, Carmarthen (now part of the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David).

Rosslare Europort

The Rosslare Harbour/Europort ferry connection using Stena Line to Fishguard Harbour and then by train operated by Arriva Trains Wales to Carmarthen, Swansea and Cardiff linking into First Great Western to Bristol Parkway, Reading and London Paddington.

Sidney Hayward

After education at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, Hayward served from 1914 to 1919 during the First World War with the 7th Battalion of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, winning the Military Cross.

St. John Lloyd

The school is situated in Llanelli's Dafen suburb, although pupils are drawn from as far afield as Carmarthen, Pembrey, Burry Port, Kidwelly, and Trimsaran.

Ted Wragg

He taught at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield from 1960 to 1964 when he moved to be Head of German at Wyggeston Boys' School in Leicester.

Tommy Jones-Davies

He was educated ar Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen and St George's School, Harpenden before gaining a place at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London.

William Henry Scourfield

Scourfield was a Tory by political leaning and had supported Lords Milford and Kensington in their elections as well as Lord Cowder's son in his 1812 campaign to win the county seat of Carmarthen.

William Wotton

Whilst at Carmarthen he also conducted surveys of the cathedrals of St David's and Llandaff which were published by his friend Browne Willis in 1717 and 1718.


see also