# Dic Jones

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{{Short description|Welsh poet and Archdruid (1934–2009)}}
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'''Dic Jones''' (30 March 1934 – 18 August [2009](/source/2009_in_Wales)),<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](/source/Archdruid) of the [National Eisteddfod of Wales](/source/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](/source/Tre'r-dd%C3%B4l) in [Ceredigion](/source/Ceredigion).<ref name="BBCObit"/> The son of a [farmer](/source/farmer), he himself farmed {{convert|85|acres|ha}} at Fferm yr Hendre at [Blaenannerch](/source/Blaenannerch) in [Aberporth](/source/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](/source/Urdd) eisteddfod, where, as an exponent of [cynghanedd](/source/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](/source/Chairing_of_the_Bard) at the National Eisteddfod with an ''awdl'' entitled "Cynhaeaf" (meaning harvest).

In 1968, cameras from [HTV](/source/ITV_Wales_%26_West) filmed one of the first pieces of British [reality television](/source/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](/source/San_Antonio%2C_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](/source/bardic_name) "Dic yr Hendre", Jones was installed as Archdruid in 2007, succeeding [Selwyn Iolen](/source/Selwyn_Griffith). He officiated at the 2008 event in [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff), but missed the 2009 event in [Bala](/source/Bala%2C_Gwynedd) due to ill health.<ref name="BBCObit"/>

==Works==
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*''Agor Grwn'' (1960)
*''Caneuon Cynhaeaf'' (1969)
*''Storom Awst'' (1978)
*''Sgubo'r Storws'' (1986)
*''Golwg Arall'' (2001)
*''Golwg ar Gân'' (2002)
*''Cadw Golwg'' (2005)
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==References==
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