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Alun Huw Davies was born in 1960 in Swansea, Wales to Stanley Charles and Vera Davies.Secondary education at Bishop Gore School, Swansea.In 1981 he obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Cambridge (Emmanuel College) and four years later got his Master of Arts degree from the same place.
The shunning of Davies, by his successor Alun Michael, First Secretary of Wales, in Michael's cabinet, was described to be a disappointment and a surprise by Davies. [3] By 2000, there was also a "deputy minister for Rural Affairs, Culture and Environment", with Delyth Evans AM holding the position in Rhodri Morgan's Labour–Liberal Democrate ...
Mid Glamorgan: CF CF39 Porth: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF40 Tonypandy: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF41 Pentre: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF42 Treorchy: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF43 FERNDALE: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF44 Aberdare: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF45 MOUNTAIN ASH: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF46 Treharris: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF47, CF48 Merthyr Tydfil: Mid Glamorgan: CF CF61, CF71 shared ...
Gower (Welsh: Gŵyr) or the Gower Peninsula (Penrhyn Gŵyr) is in South West Wales and is the most westerly part of the historic county of Glamorgan, Wales. It projects towards the Bristol Channel. In 1956, the majority of Gower became the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The total area was 2,100 km 2 (811 sq mi). Glamorgan contained two cities, Cardiff, the county town and from 1955 the capital city of Wales, and Swansea. The highest point in the county was Craig y Llyn (600 metres (1,969 ft)) near the village of Rhigos in the Cynon Valley.
The Rhymney Valley produced a miner poet, Idris Davies of Rhymney, famous for his poems associated with the locality and the struggles of its people. The 1990s brought improved road connections to the valley—a dual carriageway running north from Caerphilly —increasing access to and from Cardiff and the M4 motorway , and increasing the ...
Rhondda Cynon Taf (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈr̥ɔnða ˈkənɔn ˈtaːv]; RCT; also spelt as Rhondda Cynon Taff) is a county borough in the south-east of Wales.It consists of five valleys: the Rhondda Fawr, Rhondda Fach, Cynon, Taff (Welsh: Taf) and Ely valleys, plus several towns and villages away from the valleys.
Huw M. L. Davies FRSC is a Welsh chemist who has been Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Organic Chemistry at Emory University since 2008. [ 1 ] Born in Aberystwyth , Wales he graduated with a first-class degree in chemistry from Cardiff University in 1977 and completed his PhD at the University of East Anglia in 1980. [ 2 ]