Iorwerth peate biography of mahatma gandhi

Welsh writer; founder of the St Fagans National Museum of History

Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate (27 February 1901 – 19 October 1982) was a Welsh poet and scholar, best known as the founder, along with Cyril Fox, of St Fagans National Museum of History.^[1]

Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate was born on 27 February 1901 in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, the son of George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas).

His father and grandfather were carpenters. He attended Llanbryn-Mair Elementary School and Machynlleth Grammar School, and in 1918 entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University).^[2]

Peate's interest in folk studies and anthropology was kindled when studying Colonial History and Geography at Aberystwyth under professor Herbert John Fleure and writer T.

Gwynn Jones.^[3][4] Peate received an M.A. in 1924 for a dissertation on the anthropology, dialect and folklore of the people living in the Dyfi va