:Carmarthen Grammar School

{{Short description|Former secondary school in Carmarthen, Wales}}

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Carmarthen was a selective boys' secondary school[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB0211%20CARMARTHEN%20BOROUGH.pdf National Archives]. in Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire."Nineteenth-century Anglican Theological Training: The Redbrick Challenge" Dowland,D.A: Oxford, OUP, 1997 {{ISBN|0198269293}} It was founded in 1576 and closed in 1978.

Former students

Among the school's former pupils were the educationalist Griffith Jones;David Jones, Life and Times of Griffith Jones (1902) [https://www.tentmaker.org.uk/media/upload/file/3136.pdf online] the early Methodist leader and Bible publisher Peter Williams;{{Cite DWB|id=s-WILL-PET-1723 |title=Williams, Peter (1723-1796), Methodist cleric, author, and Biblical commentator|first=Gomer M. |last=Roberts |year=1959}} the senior Admiralty civil servant Sir Walter St David Jenkins;{{Cite DWB |id=s-EVAN-JEN-1856 |title=Evans, Walter Jenkin |first=Thomas Oswald |last=Williams |year=1959 |fewer-links=yes}} the clergyman James Rice Buckley;[http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/john/16.html Victorian Web.] the Welsh poet William Saunders;{{Cite DWB |id=s-SAUN-WIL-1806 |title=Saunders, William |first=William Roger |last=Hughes |fewer-links=yes |access-date=16 October 2019}} the Welsh international rugby players, Roy Bergiers, Gerald Davies and Ray Gravell;{{cite web |title=Obituary: Ray Gravell |date=2 November 2007 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809133624/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.rugbyunion |archive-date=9 August 2022 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.rugbyunion}} the tennis commentator and journalist Gerald Williams{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/12113961/Des-Lynam-pays-tribute-to-Gerry-Williams-the-BBCs-voice-of-tennis.html |title=Des Lynam pays tribute to Gerry Williams, the BBC's voice of tennis|author=Jim White|date=21 January 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|accessdate=22 January 2016}} and the journalist and author Byron Rogers.Byron Rogers, Me: The Authorised Biography, Aurum, London, 2009.

Old boys who have excelled in the political sphere include Denzil Davies[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/15/denzil-davies-obituary] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405223226/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/15/denzil-davies-obituary |date=5 April 2019}}. and Mark Drakeford, who was appointed First Minister of Wales in 2018.{{Cite web |last1=Deans |first1=David |title=Who is Mark Drakeford? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-46372451 |website=BBC News |accessdate=6 December 2018 |date=6 December 2018}}

References

Category:Defunct schools in Wales

Category:Grammar schools in Wales

Category:Buildings and structures in Carmarthen