In 1992, Dennis John took over as head coach, assisted by former Pontypridd flanker, Lynn Howells, and led Pontypridd into what is widely regarded as their " Golden Age ", with Ponty winning the Welsh Cup Final in the 1995 / 96 season, and winning the Welsh Premier League in the 1996 / 97 season.

Financially assisted by a member of the family of Charles Bathurst, 1st Viscount Bledisloe who had taken an interest in the budding musician, Howells began music lessons in 1905 with Herbert Brewer, the organist of Gloucester Cathedral, and at sixteen became his articled pupil at the Cathedral alongside Ivor Novello and Ivor Gurney.

In September 1935 Howells ' placid existence as teacher, adjudicator and occasional composer was abruptly shattered when his nine-year-old son Michael contracted polio during a family holiday, dying in London three days later.

While at school in Philadelphia, Varina got to know many of her northern Howells family ; she carried on a lifelong correspondence with some, and called herself a " half-breed " for her connections in both regions.

Baroness Howells is a trustee of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, and served as the unofficial advisor to the Lawrence family.

George Johnson married Emily Howells, a native of England whose family had immigrated to the United States in 1832.

In 1912, following the example of Ivor Gurney, Howells moved to London to study at the Royal College of Music.

In August of that year, Howells was invited to serve as acting organist of St John's College, Cambridge, replacing Robin Orr who was away on active service in World War II.

Howells went to Hornsey College of Art, which now is Middlesex University, where he was active in the famous May 1968 student occupation, and was the first protester to breach the Metropolitan Police cordon at the demonstration against the Vietnam War outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square in 1968.

His pupils included Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cambridge and Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music.

Howells was educated at St Joseph's Convent, South West London College and City College in Washington, DC.

He studied at The Bible College of Wales in Swansea, where he was inspired by the Director Samuel Rees Howells.

In 1969, he won a choral scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, where he gained an MA degree specializing in composition, and in 1974 went on to study with Herbert Howells at the Royal College of Music.

From the twentieth century, compositions are often named after the college chapel or cathedral for which they were written: examples are the Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense of Kenneth Leighton for Magdalen College, Oxford and the Gloucester Service of Herbert Howells for Gloucester Cathedral.

* Portrait of William Dean Howells, 1912, Collection of Colby College, Waterville, Maine.

She worked with Herbert Howells before entering the Royal College of Music ( RCM ) in 1926 to study composition with George Dyson and Gordon Jacob, harmony and counterpoint with Ralph Vaughan Williams, and conducting with William H. Reed.

She continued at the Royal College for senior-level study in music, where her composition teachers included Ralph Vaughan Williams, Herbert Howells, and Gordon Jacob ; she also studied mime and drama.

A few years later he took a part time job as Director of Music at St Paul's Girls ' School, following Gustav Holst and Herbert Howells, and was for a time Director of Music at Morley College.

Educated at Cambridge University ( honours degree and doctorate ), he spent two years at the Royal College of Music studying composition with Herbert Howells and conducting with Sir Adrian Boult.

Born at West Wickham, Greater London, England, Alan Ridout studied briefly at the Guildhall School of Music before commencing four years of study at the Royal College of Music, London with Herbert Howells and Gordon Jacob.

Sumsion passed the Associateship exam of the Royal College of Organists in 1915, and in July 1916 joined Howells in passing the Fellowship exam ; though he was only 17, Sumsion was awarded the Turpin prize for the second-highest marks in the practical component.

After being demobbed Bernard went to the Royal College of Music, studying under Imogen Holst and Herbert Howells.

Oriel College, Oxford, maintains a collection of his papers that includes a letter to his mother relating his eyewitness account of Queen Victoria's funeral, his work on Tudor Church Music, letters from Adrian Boult, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, Hubert Parry, John Stainer, Charles Villiers Stanford, Leopold Stokowski, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Henry Walford Davies, and Henry Wood.

After playing oboe in the National Youth Orchestra, he won a double scholarship to study composition with Herbert Howells and oboe with Terence MacDonagh at the Royal College of Music.

Originally based in Swansea, Wales, the Bible College was founded in 1924 by Rees Howells.

Richard Maton, worked under the ministry of Samuel Howells for forty-seven years and has fully documented the history of the Bible College of Wales in his book Samuel, Son and Successor of Rees Howells.

Included in his book are over 110 photos, many of Rees and Samuel Howells in the grounds of the Bible College.

Herbert Howells wrote a Mass in the Dorian mode entirely in strict Renaissance style, and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor is an extension of this style.

Howells followed it with An English Mass ( 1956 ), a smaller-scale setting to English words for chorus, strings and organ.

Terry gave the premières of music by Vaughan Williams ( whose Mass in G minor received its liturgical performance at a Mass in the Cathedral ), Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells and Charles Wood ; in 1959 Benjamin Britten wrote his Missa brevis for the choristers ; and since 1960 works by Lennox Berkeley, William Mathias, Colin Mawby and Francis Grier have been added to the repertoire.

She was portrayed by Ursula Howells in the 1974 BBC miniseries Fall of Eagles.

The winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood.

The winner was a neo-Gothic design by New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, with buttresses near the top.

Lots were to be sold for two pounds, with the proceeds to be turned over to the Howells ; however, full payment was not received for all of the 109 lots sold, and some were not sold for the 40 shillings price.

The Turner Prize was notorious that year not so much for the controversial nature of the work of the shortlisted artists as in previous years, but because of the comments of then Culture Minister Kim Howells.

He is known to be a lifelong supporter of Leyton Orient football club. The composer Herbert Howells was his godfather.

Herbert Norman Howells CH ( 17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983 ) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music.

Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucestershire, the youngest of the six children of Oliver Howells, a plumber, painter, decorator and builder, and his wife Elizabeth.

The Howells family's financial position was always precarious and at some point in Howells ' adolescence his father became bankrupt, a deep humiliation in a small community at the time and one from which Howells never fully recovered.

Another formative experience for the young Howells was the premiere in September 1910 at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival of Ralph Vaughan Williams ' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis.

Both Vaughan Williams and the Tudor composers of which Tallis was one profoundly influenced Howells ' later work.

More typical of the works with which Howells was later to be associated were his earliest important compositions for organ, the first set of Psalm Preludes ( 1915-16 ) and the first of the op.

Howells ' promise seemed likely to be cut short in 1915 when he was diagnosed with Graves ' disease and given six months to live.

For much of this time Howells travelled between London for treatment and Lydney where he was nursed by his mother.

It was inspired by a clavichord lent to Howells by his friend Herbert Lambert, an instrument maker and photographer based in Bath.

Howells was deeply affected and continued to commemorate the event until the end of his life.

Howells ' association with Cambridge, which lasted until the end of the war in 1945, was a productive and happy period for him, and led directly to the works for which he is most remembered.

( In later years Howells claimed it was at the urging of Vaughan Williams that the piece was disinterred )..