“REBEL” WINS EISTEDDFOD CROWN.—Mr Tom Huws, aged 49, who was crowned Bard of Wales at the Gorsedd ceremony (above) of the National Eisteddfod at Caernarvon Castle earlier this month, announced that he would boycott the Eisteddfod next year if the Queen went ahead with her plan to attend and speak in English. Mr Huws won the crown with a poem called “Chains,” about an accident to his quarryman father which made/it impossible for him to take up a State scholarship. Mr Huws said, that, having resigned from the Eisteddfod committee with others on this important principle, he would not be present next year, even as a private visitor, if the Queen attended. It has been an accepted principle of the Eisteddfods for many years that only Welsh should be spoken.

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28972, 13 August 1959, Page 24

“REBEL” WINS EISTEDDFOD CROWN.—Mr Tom Huws, aged 49, who was crowned Bard of Wales at the Gorsedd ceremony (above) of the National Eisteddfod at Caernarvon Castle earlier this month, announced that he would boycott the Eisteddfod next year if the Queen went ahead with her plan to attend and speak in English. Mr Huws won the crown with a poem called “Chains,” about an accident to his quarryman father which made/it impossible for him to take up a State scholarship. Mr Huws said, that, having resigned from the Eisteddfod committee with others on this important principle, he would not be present next year, even as a private visitor, if the Queen attended. It has been an accepted principle of the Eisteddfods for many years that only Welsh should be spoken.