212:; her father wrote her date of birth as 12 December to avoid a fine for late registration of birth. and was disappointed his first born was a girl. She was the eldest child of the self-trained dentist William St John Williams and his wife Annie (née Williams); the family resided amongst a large Welsh diaspora in Liverpool. Gwynn had a younger brother, Gwilym Gareth. Her father encouraged her to become interested in current affairs, read widely and become proud of her family roots in
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English and Welsh printed press. Gwynn also authored multiple books and short stories, won awards during her career, promoted the Welsh language by being a member of four committees and served as president of
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Gwynn and her future husband Harri Gwynn established a Plaid Cymru branch at the university, and was a member of Mudiad Gwerin ('the
Peasant Movement'), which united nationalists and socialists. She was head of the physics department at Rhyl Grammar School between 1941 and 1942, before spending the
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University Fellowship in 2002, and was named the recipient of the Science and Technology Medal at the National Eisteddfod in June 2006. She promoted the Welsh language by becoming a member of the Central Advisory Council for Education (Wales), the Court of the National
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in protest over the lack of Welsh-language programming, and was issued a fine; the BBC did not pick up her perception. She was one of five individuals to sign a protest to prevent
English-only speakers from having an escort at the National Eisteddfod in
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Equality Network Wales named her one of the 100 Welsh Women as a means of commemorating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the
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Grammar School and later worked as an assistant account at the Government Exchequer and Audit Department. She then worked as a full-time lecturer for the
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and then London at the
Government Exchequer and Audit Department as an assistant accountant. Gwynn had an ovarian growth removed and the experienced caused her to develop a dislike of using
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