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Hooson, Emlyn, 1925-2012

  • n 2012012497
  • Person
  • 1925-2012

Emlyn Hooson (Hugh Emlyn Hooson), later Lord Hooson, was born in 1925, the son of Hugh and Elsie Hooson, in Colomendy, Denbighshire. He was educated at Denbigh Grammar School, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and Grays Inn, London. He was called to the Bar in 1949. He married Shirley Margaret Wynne, daughter of Sir George Hamer, CBE, in 1950. They had two daughters. He was the Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire, 1962-1979. In the early 1960s, Emlyn Hooson and other Welsh Liberals, including Lord Ogmore, Martin Thomas QC, G. W. Madoc Jones and Geraint Howells, began pursuing Welsh devolution within the Liberal Party. An independent Welsh Liberal Party with federated links to the Party organisation based in London was established in September 1966. Welsh Liberals championed devolution at Westminster. He unsuccessfully introduced the Government of Wales Bill on St David's Day 1967, which proposed a Welsh Parliament. Between 1974 and 1979 he campaigned with other Liberals for a Welsh Assembly. In the 1979 general election he lost his Montgomeryshire seat. Soon afterwards he was elevated to the House of Lords as life peer Baron Hooson of Montgomery. In 1960, he was made QC, and was a Recorder of the Crown Court, 1972-1993. Lord Hooson is a prominent businessman and has been Director, 1985-1996, and Chairman, 1996-1996, of Laura Ashley plc, and Severn River Crossing plc, 1991-2000. He succeeded the late Lord Edmund-Davies as President of the Cambrian Law Review and has been the Hon. Professional Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, since 1971. He was also the Vice-Chairman of the Political Committee of the North Atlantic Assembly, 1975-1979. He also founded Chambers in 1950, and in the 1970s it moved to Sedan House; it is a general common law set of Barristers' Chambers.

Bonarjee, D. N.

  • n 2015046775
  • Person
  • 1894-1983

Dorothy Noel (Dorf) Bonarjee was born in Bareilly, India, on 29 August 1894 the second of the three children of Debendra Nath and Janet Bonarjee. The family moved to London in 1904, when Dorothy was ten. She and her elder brother Bertie enrolled at UCW Aberystwyth in 1912, graduating in 1916. She played an active part in academic life there but is most noted for winning the chair at the 1914 college eisteddfod for a poem on Owain Lawgoch, being simultaneously the first woman and the first non-European to do so. Some nineteen of her poems were published in the journals The Dragon, 1913-1917, and The Welsh Outlook, 1914-1919. In 1917 she became the first woman to gain an internal law degree from University College, London.
Bonarjee subsequently moved to France and married the artist Paul Surtel in 1921. They had two children, Denis who died in infancy and Claire Aruna (1925-2009). The marriage ended in divorce in 1938. Bonarjee spent her remaining days at Jaubergue, her house and vineyard in Gonfaron, Provence. Bonarjee appears to have continued to occasionally compose poetry in France but none appears to have been published in her lifetime; she also co-translated Aurobindo's Heraclitus into French (see Shri Aurobindo, Heraclite, preface by Mario Meunier, trans. by D. N. Bonarjee and Jean Herbert (Paris, [1944])). Dorothy Bonarjee died in 1983.
A selection of her poetry was published in The Hindu Bard: The Poetry of Dorothy 'Dorf' Bonarjee, ed. and introduced by Mohini Gupta and Andrew Whitehead (Aberystwyth: Honno, 2023).

Moat, John

  • n 50000058
  • Person
  • 1936-
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