Euros Bowen [SEP] date of death
Euros Bowen
Euros Bowen (12 September 1904 – 2 April 1988) was a Welsh language poet and priest.
Born in Treorchy, and a brother of the poet Geraint Bowen, he was educated at the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, and later at the University of Wales (initially at University College, Aberystwyth before transferring to University College, Swansea), Mansfield College, Oxford and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Although initially he intended to become a Nonconformist minister, he converted to Anglicanism as a student, and
Geraint Bowen (poet)
Dr. Geraint Bowen (10 September 1915 – 16 July 2011) was a Welsh language poet and academic.
Born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, he was the nephew of Carmarthenshire minister David Bowen, and the brother of poet Euros Bowen. He was a Welsh nationalist, and during the Second World War was a conscientious objector, undertaking farming. He was Plaid Cymru candidate for Wrexham in the 1950 General Election. In 1946 he won the bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, and from