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Keir was born in St Davids, Pembrokeshire. [1] Her father was a weaver. [1]At age 21 she moved to Cardiff to work at Llandough Hospital. [1] She worked in the hospital during World War II and survived the Cardiff Blitz.
Patti Flynn (born Patricia Maude Young, 1937 – 10 September 2020) was a Welsh jazz singer, author, model and social activist. [1] She was a founder and patron of Black History Wales. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In 2019 she was honoured with the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Association's (EMWWAA) Lifetime Achievement Award.
Frances Elizabeth Hoggan (née Morgan; 20 December 1843 – 5 February 1927) [1] was a Welsh doctor and in 1870 became the first woman from the UK to receive a doctorate in medicine from any university in Europe. She was a pioneering medical practitioner, researcher and social reformer – and the first female doctor to be registered in Wales. [2]
Nancy Lee (born 1970), Welsh-born short story writer, novelist, now in Canada; Ruby Levick (c.1872–1940), sculptor; Donna Lewis (born 1973), singer, musician; Eiluned Lewis (1900–1979), novelist, poet, journalist; Emmeline Lewis Lloyd (1827–1913), mountaineer; Gwyneth Lewis (born 1959), Welsh-language poet, national poet of Wales, also ...
Lauren Louise Price (born 25 June 1994) [1] is a Welsh professional boxer, former amateur boxer and former kickboxer and footballer. [2] She has held the WBA, IBO, and Ring female welterweight World titles since 11 May 2024.
In 1866 her mother died. Between 1880 and her father's death in 1892 she had six novels published. [2] Following the deaths of her brother in 1890 and her father in 1892 Amy Dillwyn lost the family home at Hendrefoilan due to its being entailed to the male line, but inherited her father's debts of over £100,000 (£8 million or more today). She ...
Amy Winifred Hawkins (née Evans, 24 January 1911 – 8 September 2021) was a Welsh supercentenarian and dancer from Monmouthshire in South Wales, who became famous for singing the World War I song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" [1] on her 110th birthday.
Sarah Jane Rees (9 January 1839 – 27 June 1916), also known by the bardic name "Cranogwen", was a Welsh teacher, poet, editor, master mariner and temperance campaigner. [1] She had two romantic friendships with women, first with 'Phania' Fanny Rees, until her death from tuberculosis, then with Jane Thomas, for most of the rest of Rees's life.