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Bryndomen

Former Home of Dr. William Evans a distinguished Harley Street cardiologist. He was a grandson of "the Welsh Swagman", Joseph Jenkins, whose voluminous Australian diaries over 25 years (1869-1894) he edited and published as excerpts in 1975. He also assisted Lord Dawson of Penn in use of the electrocardiograph, with which he once favourably determined the disputed state of health of prime minister Stanley Baldwin. In 1959 he was appointed to the honorific post of High Sheriff of Cardiganshire

 

In retirement, he ultimately settled at Bryndomen, near Tregaron, which overlooks the Domen (burial mound) close to the Teifi River, where he was known as "Wil Blocks" because of a substantial concrete-block wall around his residence. He died on 20 September 1988, aged 92, at Withybush Hospital, Haverfordwest.

 

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