Important Events in Williams's Life
- 1911 - Moves to Mynachlog-ddu when his father becomes headteacher of primary school.
- 1915 - Moves to Llandysilio, Pembrokeshire when his father is appointed headteacher of primary school.
- 1917 - Attends grammar school at Narberth.
- 1923 - Begins study at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- 1926 - Graduates in English and trains as a teacher.
- 1928 - Begins to teach in at various primary schools in Pembrokeshire.
- 1936 - Publication of Cerddi'r plant (=Poems for children)
- 1941 - Marries Linda Llewellyn.
- 1942 - Moves from Pembrokeshire to teach in north-west Wales.
- 1943 - Linda Llewellyn dies.
- 1944 - Moves to teach at Kimbolton School.
- 1946 - Moves to Lyneham, Wiltshire.
- 1949 - Returns to Wales.
- 1950 - The Korean War; resigns from teaching to begin protest of non-payment of income tax against the war. Protest continues after the war until the end of compulsory military service in 1963.
- 1953 - Leaves the Baptist church to join the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
- 1956 - Publication of Dail pren (=The leaves of the tree).
- 1959 - Stands as the Plaid Cymru candidate in the Pembrokeshire constituency at the General Election.
- 1960 - Imprisoned for six weeks for non-payment of income tax.
- 1961 - Imprisoned for a further period for non-payment of income tax.
- 1963 - Resumes teaching at various primary schools in Pembrokeshire.
Waldo Williams memorial, Rhos-fach, Mynachlog-ddu.
Read more about this topic: Waldo Williams
Famous quotes containing the words important, events, williams and/or life:
“In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“At the thick of the dark
the moment of the cold’s
deepest plunge we brought branches
cut from the green trees
to fill our need,”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)