# Edgar Phillips

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{{short description|Welsh poet}}
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'''Edgar Phillips''' (8 October 1889 – 30 August 1962), known by the [bardic name](/source/bardic_name) "[Trefin](/source/Trefin)",<ref>{{Cite web|title = Papurau Trefin, Archdderwydd Cymru|url = http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=78009&expand=|website = archiveswales.org.uk|access-date = 2016-02-11|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120523101047/http://www.archiveswales.org.uk/anw/get_collection.php?inst_id=1&coll_id=78009&expand=|archive-date = 23 May 2012|url-status = dead}}</ref> was a [Welsh](/source/Wales) poet and served as [Archdruid](/source/Archdruid) of the [National Eisteddfod of Wales](/source/National_Eisteddfod_of_Wales) from 1960 until his death.

Phillips took his bardic name from his birthplace, the village of [Trefin](/source/Trefin) in [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire). He did not learn [Welsh](/source/Welsh_language) until his family moved to [Cardiff](/source/Cardiff) when he was aged eleven. Whilst working as an apprentice tailor back in his native county, he mastered the art of ''cynghanedd''. After running his own tailoring business in Cardiff, he joined the [Royal Garrison Artillery](/source/Royal_Garrison_Artillery) during [World War I](/source/World_War_I), and was seriously wounded. In 1921, he took a teaching course at [Caerleon](/source/Caerleon), and taught at [Pengam](/source/Pengam) and [Pontllanfraith](/source/Pontllanfraith). In 1933, he won the chair at the National Eisteddfod held in [Wrexham](/source/Wrexham).<ref>{{Cite web|title = Made in China: the 1933 Eisteddfod chair|url = http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/articles/2010-07-25/Made-in-China-the-1933-Eisteddfod-chair/|website = National Museum Wales|access-date = 2016-02-11}}</ref>

His third wife, whom he married in 1951, was the travel writer Maxwell Fraser (real name Dorothy Phillips).

A memorial was erected within the chapel grounds of Rehoboth chapel.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Geograph:: Memorial to Edgar Phillips at Rehoboth (C) Anonymous|url = https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/948914|website = geograph.org.uk|access-date = 2016-02-11}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Trysor o gân'', in four volumes (1930–36)
*''Caniadau Trefîn'' (1950)<ref>{{Cite web|title = The Discovery Service|url = http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F71014|website = discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date = 2016-02-11|language = en-GB|first = The National|last = Archives}}</ref>
*''Edmund Jones, the Old Prophet'' (1959)

==References==
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==Sources==
*[http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s2-PHIL-EDG-1889.html Welsh Biography Online]

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{{Succession box
 | title  = Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
 | years  = 1960-1962
 | before = [William Morris](/source/William_Morris_(archdruid))
 | after  = [Albert Evans-Jones](/source/Albert_Evans-Jones)
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Category:1889 births
Category:1962 deaths
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Chaired bards
Category:Royal Garrison Artillery soldiers
Category:Welsh-language poets
Category:Welsh Eisteddfod archdruids
Category:Welsh Eisteddfod winners
Category:20th-century Welsh poets
Category:20th-century Welsh male writers
Category:Military personnel from Pembrokeshire

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