Carmarthen Grammar School

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Carmarthen was a selective secondary school[1] in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire:[2] among its ex pupils were the educationalist, Griffith Jones; the early Methodist leader and Bible publisher, Peter Williams;[3] the senior Admiralty civil servant, Sir Walter St David Jenkins;[4] the clergyman, James Rice Buckley; the Welsh international rugby players, Roy Bergiers, Gerald Davies and Ray Gravell;[5],the tennis commentator and journalist Gerald Williams.[6] and the journalist and author Byron Rogers. Old boys who have excelled in the political sphere include Denzil Davies and Mark Drakeford, who was appointed First Minister of Wales in 2018.

References
  1. National Archives
  2. "Nineteenth-century Anglican Theological Training: The Redbrick Challenge" Dowland,D.A: Oxford, OUP, 1997 ISBN 0198269293
  3. Williams, Peter (1723-1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator, Gomer M. Roberts (1959), Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
  4. WBO
  5. Guardian Obituary
  6. Jim White (21 January 2016). "Des Lynam pays tribute to Gerry Williams, the BBC's voice of tennis". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 January 2016.


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