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Carl Iwan Clowes

Welsh medical practitioner (1943–2021)

Carl Iwan Clowes OBE (11 December 1943 – 4 December 2021) was a Welsh medical practitioner. In 1978 he founded the Nant Gwrtheyrn Trust in order to buy the village of Nant Gwrtheyrn, to restore and regenerate it and to set up a Welsh language centre.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Carl Iwan Clowes (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Dec 11, 1943, died Dec 4, 2021.¹

About

Clowes was born and brought up in Manchester, his mother was Welsh (and spoke Welsh) and his father was English. When his parents returned to north Wales, he set about learning Welsh. After qualifying as a doctor in 1967, he spent eight years as a doctor in Llanaelhaearn on the Llŷn peninsula before gaining a master's degree in social medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

In 1974, he was the inaugural chairman of Antur Aelhaearn; the first community co-operative in the United Kingdom, which was established to save the local school. He was also the inaugural chairman and president of Dolen Cymru, a charity that was established in 1985 to build a relationship between Wales and the southern African country of Lesotho.

He was the Plaid Cymru candidate for the Montgomeryshire constituency in the 1979, 1983 and 1987 UK general elections.

From Wikipedia’s article on Carl Iwan Clowes, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

Antur AelhaearnFounder¹¹

Career

Occupation: general practitioner, activist, writer.³

Personal life

BornDec 11, 1943, Manchester⁴
DiedDec 4, 2021, Pencaenewydd^{5 6}
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom⁷
Children4⁸

He was married and had four children including Dafydd and Cian who were members of the band Super Furry Animals.

He died at the age of 77 at his home in Pencaenewydd, Llŷn, and was interred at Llanaelhaearn cemetery.

From Wikipedia’s article on Carl Iwan Clowes (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Awards

Date not recordedOfficer of the Order of the British Empire^{9 10}

Sources

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WikidataAntur Aelhaearn, Founder
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Wikimedia CommonsCarl Iwan Clowes photo by Hogyncymru, CC BY-SA 4.0