Major-General Glyn Charles Anglim Gilbert CB MC (1920 – 26 September 2003) was a 20th century British military officer who served during World War II. In 1970 he became the highest ranking Bermudian military officer when he was promoted to the rank of Major General in the British Army.
He was born into a family of Gilberts with its roots in the 17th Century settlement of Bermuda. His father, Major Charles Gray Gosling Gilbert, OBE, MC, was the long-time head of the Colony's education department (1924–56) (the school of Gilbert Institute, in Paget, is named for him). Charles Gilbert, 1913 Bermuda Rhodes Scholar, had been studying at the University of Oxford, Brasenose College, in England when the Great War began. He left his studies and was commissioned into the Royal West Kent Regiment, before serving on the Western Front in the Machine Gun Corps. (Other Bermudian students in Britain similarly left their studies for the Army, including 1916 Bermuda Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Lennock deGraaf Godet, killed-in-action while serving in the Royal Flying Corps). During the Second World War, he was also in charge of cable censorship in Bermuda.
Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was a British stage, television and film actor, probably best known to British TV viewers for two roles: that of Dr. Patrick O'Meara in the long-running ITV hospital drama Emergency - Ward 10, and that of Jack Rolfe, the headstrong Director of the Mermaid Boatyard in the mid-1980s BBC series Howards' Way.
Born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Welsh railway guard, Glyn Owen left school aged 14 and worked in a telegraph office. He completed his compulsory military service in 1946-1948 during which time he acted in the War Office's amateur dramatic company. For the next five years he was a police officer in London's Paddington district, while continuing in amateur dramatics and receiving acting training at the Actor's Studio in St John's Wood.
By 1955 he was performing with the George Mitchell Singers in Blackpool, with the impresario Lew Grade as his agent. His television debut was in 1956 in The Trollenburg Terror. His other television roles included Coronation Street, The Brothers, Doomwatch, The Adventures of William Tell, The Rat Catchers, Doctor Who (episode: "The Power of Kroll", 1978), All Creatures Great and Small, Ennal's Point, Survivors, Oil Strike North, Blake's 7, Nekromanteia. He also appeared in a 1978 episode, "Rogue", of The Professionals, in which he played a corrupt CI5 agent. His short career as a policeman also stood him in good stead to play the role of Wally, an alcoholic ex-policeman, in an episode of the fourth series of the Sweeney called "Money, Money, Money".
Glyn Morgan is a professional rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s, playing at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Huddersfield, and Cardiff, as a Scrum-half/Halfback, i.e. number 7.
Glyn Morgan won caps for Wales while at Huddersfield, and Cardiff 1947…1949 4-caps.
Gilbert Vinter (born May 4, 1909, Lincoln; died October 10, 1969, Tintagel) was an English conductor and composer, most celebrated for his compositions for brass bands.
As a youth, Vinter was a chorister at Lincoln Cathedral, and eventually became Head Chorister there. He later became a bassoonist. In 1930, he joined the BBC Military Band, where he did much of his early conducting. It was during that time that he also began to compose. During World War II, Vinter played in The Central Band of the RAF and later led several other RAF bands. He was the first principal conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, from 1952 to 1953.
In 1960, The Daily Herald newspaper and sponsors of brass band contests, commissioned Vinter to write his first major work for brass band, the result of which was Salute to Youth. Vinter wrote other works for brass band, including:
Vinter did not attend the premiere of Spectrum due to ill health. His other works include three brass quartets:
Glyn Elwyn is Professor of Primary Care at Cardiff University where he leads the [Decision Laboratory], developing and evaluating decision support interventions such as Prosdex [1], Amniodex [2] and Bresdex [3], tools that help clinicians achieve shared decision making.
He first completed an arts degree in Bangor, North Wales, where he was taught by Bedwyr Lewis Jones and Gwyn Thomas, before completing a medical degree in Cardiff. After training as a general medical practitioner he set up a single-handed practice in the Docklands, the most deprived area of Cardiff, providing medical care to Somali refugees and the homeless as well as to the inhabitants of Butetown. His interest in practice development led to Masters degree in medical education and after that to research on shared decision making and [evidence-based medicine]. He completed his PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Richard Grol in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
He was appointed Professor of Primary Care at the Swansea Medical School (2002–2005) before being appointed Research Professor at Cardiff University. He is the Research Director of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, and Chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Interdisciplinary Research Group. His research interest is in how to develop and implement shared decision making, making use where possible of decision support interventions (also known as decision aids). In collaboration with Professor Adrian Edwards, he manages a multidisciplinary research group of researchers focused on translating the best available research evidence into clinical practice and by enhancing the patient-clinician encounter (www.decisionlaboratory.com).