{{Short description|Welsh poet and Archdruid (1934–2009)}} thumb|Dic Jones {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} {{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
'''Dic Jones''' (30 March 1934 – 18 August 2009),<ref name="BBCObit">{{Cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8207396.stm |title=Archdruid Dic Jones dies, aged 75 |publisher=BBC |date=2009-08-18 |access-date=2009-08-18}}</ref> was a Welsh-language poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dic-jones-archdruid-of-wales-and-master-poet-in-the-strict-metres-of-welsh-prosody-1775102.html |title=Dic Jones: Archdruid of Wales and master poet in the strict metres of |date=2009-08-21 |work=The Independent |access-date=2017-09-14 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Career== Jones was born '''Richard Lewis Jones''' at Tre'r-ddôl in Ceredigion.<ref name="BBCObit"/> The son of a farmer, he himself farmed {{convert|85|acres|ha}} at Fferm yr Hendre at Blaenannerch in Aberporth. In commenting upon his life, he remarked, "I farm for bread and butter; I write for some jam on it."
Jones began his literary career as a competitor in the Urdd eisteddfod, where, as an exponent of cynghanedd, he won the chair five times in his twenties.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.britannia.com/wales/lit/lit18.html |title=GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Welsh Literature – 20th Century, Pt III}}</ref> In 1966 he won the Chair at the National Eisteddfod with an ''awdl'' entitled "Cynhaeaf" (meaning harvest).
In 1968, cameras from HTV filmed one of the first pieces of British reality television, when they followed Jones, his wife Jean, and three of their children, Delyth, Rhian and Dafydd, on a fortnight's holiday to San Antonio, Ibiza.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/4498565.Dic_Jones_poet_and_television_pioneer/ |title=Dic Jones poet and television pioneer}}</ref>
Under his bardic name "Dic yr Hendre", Jones was installed as Archdruid in 2007, succeeding Selwyn Iolen. He officiated at the 2008 event in Cardiff, but missed the 2009 event in Bala due to ill health.<ref name="BBCObit"/>
==Works== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} *''Agor Grwn'' (1960) *''Caneuon Cynhaeaf'' (1969) *''Storom Awst'' (1978) *''Sgubo'r Storws'' (1986) *''Golwg Arall'' (2001) *''Golwg ar Gân'' (2002) *''Cadw Golwg'' (2005) {{div col end}}
==References== {{reflist|30em}}
{{Authority control}}{{Navbox|name=|list1={{s-start}} {{s-bef|before=Selwyn Griffith}} {{s-ttl|title=Archdderwydd of the National Eisteddfod of Wales |years=2008–2009}} {{s-aft|after=T. James Jones}} {{s-end}}|image=[[File:Tribann.svg | 40px | link= Gorsedd Cymru | alt= Awen Bardic symbol]]|imageleft=[[File:Tribann.svg | 40px | link= Gorsedd Cymru | alt= Awen Bardic symbol]]}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Dic}} Category:1934 births Category:2009 deaths Category:Chaired bards Category:Welsh Eisteddfod archdruids Category:Welsh farmers Category:Welsh-language poets Category:20th-century Welsh poets Category:20th-century Welsh male writers Category:People from Ceredigion