Abersychan was the birthplace of the politicians Roy Jenkins, Don Touhig and Paul Murphy ( MP for Torfaen ), and of the rugby footballers Wilfred Hodder, Candy Evans and Bryn Meredith.

In 1981, defectors from the moderate wing of the Labour Party, led by former Cabinet ministers Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Shirley Williams, founded the Social Democratic Party.

It was founded by four senior Labour Party ' moderates ', dubbed the ' Gang of Four ': Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams.

The origin of the party can be traced back to the ideological divisions in the Labour Party in the 1950s ( with its forerunner being the Campaign for Democratic Socialism established to support the Gaitskellites ), but publicly lies in the 1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission.

The founding members or ' Gang of Four ' were Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, all leading figures within the Labour Party, and all ' moderates '.

In the Glasgow Hillhead by-election in March 1982, another candidate named Roy Jenkins was nominated by Labour Party activists to contest the seat in order to confuse voters and split his potential vote.

In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.

Almost immediately after his election as leader he was faced with a serious crisis: the creation in early 1981 of a breakaway party by four senior Labour right-wingers, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers ( the so-called " Gang of Four "), the Social Democratic Party.

Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC ( 11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003 ) was a British politician.

The son of a Welsh coal miner who later became a union official and Labour MP, Roy Jenkins served with distinction in World War II.

Born in Abersychan, Monmouthshire, in south-eastern Wales, as an only child, Roy Jenkins was the son of a National Union of Mineworkers official, Arthur Jenkins.

Roy Jenkins is often seen as responsible for the most wide-ranging social reforms of the late 1960s, with popular historian Andrew Marr claiming ' the greatest changes of the Labour years ' were thanks to Jenkins.

This led to some former admirers, including Roy Hattersley, choosing to distance themselves from Jenkins.

Roy Jenkins is fondly remembered by Private Eye as having a passion for claret and a distinct inability to pronounce his ' r's.

This was clearly shown in their obituary cartoon with the caption: Roy Jenkins, 1920 – 2003.

Referring to the same, one of the entries in Douglas Adams & John Lloyd's The Meaning of Liff reads " WATH ( n .): The rage of Roy Jenkins.

Cardiff University honours the memory of Roy Jenkins by naming one of their halls of residence ' Roy Jenkins Hall ' in his memory.

Books by Roy Jenkins:

* Roy Cazaly – Australian Rules Footballer who died in 1963 in Hobart, member of the AFL Hall of Fame

John died on 17 June 1985 in Sunningdale, Berkshire, and Roy on 5 November 2001.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on December 6, 1988.

" Roy O. Disney died on December 20, 1971, less than three months after the property opened.

Gabrielle Roy died at the age of seventy-four.

On April 30, 1945, he married Ruthe Willis and had three children together ( including a son, television director Roy Campanella II ), though their relationship deteriorated after his accident ; they separated in 1960 and Ruthe died in January 1963.

Additionally, Roy Conrad, the original voice actor for Ben, died in 2002.

* Carl Bunch was the drummer for Buddy Holly during the " Winter Dance Party " tour in 1959 in which Holly died ( the Day the Music Died ), and a later for Hank Williams, Jr. and Roy Orbison.

* Roy Whittenburg, businessman, newspaper publisher, and U. S. Senate candidate in 1958 ; died in Canyon in 1980

Previously known as Central City, Sandridge, the Basin, and Lakeview-Roy was ultimately named for a local school teacher's child, Roy C. Peebles, who had died.

He first appeared in More Fun Comics # 73 ( November 1941 ), where he was identified as the orphaned son of Roy Harper, Sr., a forest ranger who had died saving a Navajo medicine chief named " Brave Bow " from a fire.

Roy O. Disney was the father of Roy E. Disney, who died on December 16, 2009.

She is buried with her two young boys, Roy Dewayne Orbison ( 1958 – 1968 ) and Anthony King Orbison ( 1962 – 1968 ), who died together in a house fire

* August 28-Claude Roy, French poet ( died 1997 )

* March 22-Gabrielle Roy, French Canadian author ( died 1983 )

Rogers and Arline had a son, Roy Jr. (" Dusty ") in 1946, but Arline died of complications from the birth a few days afterward on November 3.

During filming in Spain, actor Roy Kinnear, a close friend of Lester, died after falling from a horse.

Roy Sansom had died during Odette's imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill in 1947.

** Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist ( died 1674 )

The first time was on January 21, 1741 to Betty Roy, who died in childbirth November 17, 1742.

The youngest person elected General Superintendent was Roy T. Williams ( 1883 – 1946 ), who was only 32 when chosen to fill a vacancy caused by the deaths of Phineas F. Bresee ( 1837 – 1915 ) and William C. Wilson ( 1866 – 1915 ), both of whom died within weeks of the 1915 General Assembly.

They would eventually have six children: Bessie Mason ( born 1861 ), Edward Porter II and Lucy Roy ( twins, born 1863 ), an unnamed girl ( 1865, died in infancy prior to naming ), Adam Leopold ( 1867 ), and William Mason ( 1868 ).