Writer and physician, born in Cardiff, S Wales, UK. He studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, King’s College London, and Westminster Hospital, becoming senior specialist in the chest clinic at the Central Medical Establishment, London, in 1954. His literary output includes several volumes of poetry, four novels, and a number of plays. His autobiographical volumes are A Poet in the Family (1974), A Strong Dose of Myself (1983), There was a Young Man from Cardiff (1991), and the novel Ash on a Young Man’s Sleeve (1954). Later work includes Arcadia, One Mile (1997) and Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (1997).