The popular Welsh poet Richard Davies (1833–1877) adopted the name Mynyddog as his pen name. Use of an adopted Welsh-language pen name was common among Welsh poets of his era.
Welsh character actor, in films from 1949. He worked in the mines at the age of fourteen, then served as a military policeman during World War Two before joining the Old Vic.
Coxswain of the Cromer Lifeboat (1976 - 1999).
