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- Lorraine Barrett AM (born 18 March 1950) is a Labour Co-operative Member of the Welsh Assembly for Cardiff South and Penarth. Lorraine lives in Penarth, is married to rock and roll promoter Paul Barrett and is the mother of Lincoln Barrett. Sir Alun Talfan Davies (22 July 1913 – 11 November 2000) was a Welsh politician, lawyer, writer and publisher, the brother of Aneirin Talfan Davies. Davies lived in Penarth all his life and died in the town. Gwilym Davies CBE (24 March 1879 – 26 January 1955) was a Welsh Baptist minister, who spent much of his life attempting to further good international relations through supporting the work of the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations. He also established the Annual World Wireless Message to Children in 1922, and was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on St David's Day 1923. Davies retired to Penarth and when he died his ashes were scattered in the sea at Lavernock Point. John Dixon (born 1951) is a Welsh politician and Chairman of Plaid Cymru. He stood for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007. Dixon lived in Penarth and was educated in the town. Sir Henry Lewis Guy CBE, FRS, (15 June 1887 – 20 July 1956) was a leading British mechanical engineer, notable in particular for his work on steam turbine design. Guy was born and educated in Penarth. Ralph Hancock (1893–1950) – Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's favourite landscape gardener built gardens in the UK in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and in the United States in the 1930s. A few are well known; the roof gardens at Derry and Toms in London and the Rockefeller Center in New York, the garden at Twyn-yr-Hydd House in Margam and the rock and water garden he built for Princess Victoria at Coppins, Iver, England. Hancock lived in Penarth for most of his life. Sir John Hawkshaw (1811 – 2 June 1891), English engineer, was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and was educated at Leeds Grammar School. Hawkshaw was the architect and builder of Penarth Docks and he settled in the town after it was constructed. Harrison Hayter (10 April 1825 – 5 May 1898) was a British engineer, participating in many significant railway construction projects in Britain and many harbour and dock constructions worldwide, including Penarth docks. Clive Jenkins (2 May 1926 – 22 September, 1999) – the British trade union leader who stated in Who's Who that his whole life was dedicated to "Organising the middle classes", which summed up both his sense of humour and his achievements in the British trade union movement, had a second home in the town. Constance Maynard(1849–1935) Woman politician and the first female mayor of Penarth in 1926. Constance Maynard was the first head of Westfield College, where she held the unique title of Mistress from its establishment in 1882. She remained Mistress until 1913. She was born in Middlesex, and grew up in a strict evangelical household in Kent. Her parents were apprehensive about her attending university, however, in 1872, she joined a new college for women at Hitchin, which soon after became Girton College, Cambridge. In 1875, Maynard sat for the moral sciences tripos and achieved the equivalent of a second class honours degree. During these years, she developed a vision of a college which not only promoted higher education for women, but also acknowledged a commitment to Christianity. Maynard played an influential part in the establishment of Westfield College, and ensured its subsequent Christian mission. As Mistress, she saw Westfield successfully evolve from a small London college for ladies into a prominent College of the University of London. She wrote numerous religious periodicals and tracts, as well as papers on the education of women, thereby contributing to the movement to secure intellectual enfranchisement of women. Alun Michael JP MP (born 22 August 22 1943) – the Welsh politician, Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament for Cardiff South and Penarth, and member of the UK's Privy Council lives in the town. Sir Archibald Rowlands GCB MBE (26 December 1892 – 18 August 1953) was a British civil servant. After serving as private secretary to three Secretaries of State for War, he was Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Air Production during the Second World War. He then worked in India and later acted as a special advisor to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the Governor-General of Pakistan. Rowlands was born in Penarth and educated at Penarth Grammar School. Dr. Wilfred Edward Shewell-Cooper (1900–1982) was a pioneer British organic gardener and pioneer of no dig gardening. He was the author of Soil, Humus and Health (1975). Shewell-Cooper lived in Penarth during the early 20th century. John Smith MP (born 1951) – Labour party politician and Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan was educated at Penarth County Grammar School. Member of the UK's Defence Select Committee during 2005. James Pyke Thompson (1846–1897) was an English corn merchant who is best known for his philanthropic work towards the people of Cardiff and Penarth in South Wales. Born into a wealthy family in Bridgwater, Somerset, Thompson joined his father as director of Spiller & Co. , Cardiff, one of the largest milling companies in Britain. Thompson lived in Plymouth Road and built the Turner House Gallery to house his collection of paintings. Philip Weekes (born Philip Gordon Weekes in the village of Nantybwch, Monmouthshire 12 June, 1920 died Penarth 26 June 2003) was a renowned mining engineer who rose to the head of his profession within the mining industry in Wales and beyond.
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