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Saunders Lewis

Died in 1985

Saunders Lewis was born in 1893 in Liverpool into a Welsh family of ministers. Wounded in France during the Great War, he afterwards taught at university and in 1925 founded the Welsh national party. In 1936, with two others, he set fire to a military construction site as a protest, gave himself up, was tried in London and sentenced to nine months in prison; his university dismissed him and never took him back. He then lived on lectures and journalism. He died in 1985.

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