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- Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards, was a Welsh academic, writer and film-maker, best known as the founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the Welsh League of Youth. He was born at Tremaran, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, the son of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, and was educated at Bala grammar school and University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After military service on the Western Front during World War I, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, taking a degree in history. He worked as a teacher and lecturer from 1920 to 1948, when he gave up the profession to concentrate on his work for the Urdd. In 1922, Edwards wrote a letter to the periodical Cymru'r Plant, which led to the founding of the Urdd, and the first Urdd recreational camp was held at Llanuwchllyn in 1928, under his direction. It was gradually followed by more permanent camps and residential centres. In partnership with J. Ellis Williams, he made the first Welsh language sound film, The Quarryman. In 1947 he was knighted in recognition of his youth work, and the Urdd had his portrait painted by Alfred Janes in 1956. He was a director of Television Wales and the West and encouraged the making of television programmes in Welsh.
- Ifan ab Owen Edwards, fou un acadèmic, escriptor i director de cinema gal·lès, fundador de l'organització Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Era fill de Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, i estudià gramàtica a Bala i a la Universitat de Gal·les a Aberystwyth. Després de lluitar al Front Occidental durant la Primera Guerra Mundial, continuà els estudis i es graduà en història al Lincoln College de la Universitat d'Oxford, on hi treballà com a mestre i lector de 1920 a 1948, any en què deixà la docència per a centrar-se en les activitats a l'Urdd. El 1922 va escriure una carta al diari Cymru'r Plant, on proposava la fundacó de l'Urdd, i el 1928 va fundar el primer camp recreatiu d'Urdd a Llanuwchllyn, asumint-ne la direcció. Juntament amb J. Ellis Williams va fer el primer film sonor en gal·lès, Y Chwarelwr (El picapedrer). El 1947 fou nomenat cavaller en reconeixement al seu treball amb el jovent, i l'Urdd té un retrat seu pintat per Alfred Janes el 1956. Fou director de Television Wales and the West i va encoratjar la realització de programes de televisió en gal·lès.
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- Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards, was a Welsh academic, writer and film-maker, best known as the founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru, the Welsh League of Youth. He was born at Tremaran, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, the son of Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, and was educated at Bala grammar school and University of Wales, Aberystwyth. After military service on the Western Front during World War I, he studied at Lincoln College, Oxford, taking a degree in history.
- Ifan ab Owen Edwards, fou un acadèmic, escriptor i director de cinema gal·lès, fundador de l'organització Urdd Gobaith Cymru. Era fill de Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, i estudià gramàtica a Bala i a la Universitat de Gal·les a Aberystwyth.
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