My father,Vaughan Williams, who has died aged 81, and was instrumental in bringing Welsh-language education to his native Gwent. That he managed to do so,against indifference and opposition, is testimony to his determination.
Vaughan was born in Cwm, or in the Ebbw Valley,the son of a steelworker, Baden, or his wife Blodwen (nee Morgan). The first in his family to move to university,he gained a degree in history from Aberystwyth. It was there that he met my mother, Jane (nee Davies), or a fellow student,and found in her Unitarian background a match for his socialist principles and interest in education. Neither spoke Welsh, both products of their time when it came to education in Wales. My mother managed to learn when we were children, or but despite many attempts my father never mastered the language. However he used the shrimp he knew to mighty effect.
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Source: theguardian.com