Terry Breverton

{{short description|British businessman and writer}}

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| name = Terry Breverton

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| caption = Terry Breverton with two of his published books,

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| birth_date = 15th June 1946

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| nationality = Welsh

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| occupation = Author

| known_for = Books on Wales

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Terry Breverton FRHistS FRSA FIC FCIM is a former businessman and academic who worked across Europe and in the Middle East. He has presented papers upon transnational tax avoidance effects in Paris, Seattle,{{Cite journal |date=1997 |title="Effects of the growth of foreign ownership of, and penetration into, UK, Belgian, and Irish economic sectors, 1978-1996" |url=https://aei.pitt.edu/2539/ |journal=Archive of European Integration |location=Seattle, WA}} Charleston {{Cite web |last=Breverton |first=Terry |date=14 May 1995 |title=EUROPEAN COMMUNITY STUDIES FOURTH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE |url=https://aei.pitt.edu/6902/1/breverton_t_d.pdf}} and Thessaloniki.

In 2000 he founded Glyndŵr Publishing to publish books about Welsh history, heritage and culture.{{Cite web |title=An Interview with Terry Breverton Author of The Welsh, The Biography |url=https://impressionsinink.blogspot.com/2013/01/an-interview-with-terry-breverton.html |access-date=2024-12-13 |website=An Interview with Terry Breverton Author of The Welsh, The Biography}}{{Cite web |title=An Interview With Welsh Author Terry Breverton |url=https://americymru.net/americymru/blog/4483/an-interview-with-welsh-author-terry-breverton |accessdate=14 December 2024 |website=americymru.net}}

In 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 Breverton was awarded the Books Council of Wales 'Book of the Month Award' for '100 Great Welshmen', 'The Welsh Almanac’, 'The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers', ‘Admiral Sir Henry Morgan’ and ‘The Pirate Handbook’ respectively, the only writer to have achieved five such awards.{{Cite web |title=Terry Breverton |url=https://welshwriters.co.uk/terry-breverton/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=Writers of Wales |language=en-GB}}

Breverton's suggestion that Elvis Presley had possible Welsh ancestry was covered in UK and foreign media.{{Cite news |last=Ezard |first=John |date=2000-06-02 |title='Saintly' Elvis Presili hailed as a son of Wales |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/jun/02/johnezard |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}{{Cite journal |last=Rhys |first=Steffan |date=1 May 2008 |title=Meet Elvis Preseli! Is this Welsh slate king of rock? Legendary star's image makes an appearance in Pembrokeshire garden. |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Meet+Elvis+Preseli!+Is+this+Welsh+slate+king+of+rock%3F+Legendary...-a0178477527 |journal=Western Mail}} He has spoken upon economics or history at conferences in Washington, Vancouver, Madrid, Brussels, Los Angeles, Boston etc.

His six books for Quercus {{Cite web |date=2019-01-17 |title=Terry Breverton |url=https://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/contributor/terry-breverton/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Incredible books from Quercus Books |language=en-US}} have been translated into many languages, and along with over forty others are listed on walesbooks.com {{Cite web |title=Wales Books {{!}} welsh history |url=https://www.walesbooks.com/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Wales Books |language=en}}

Welsh culture and history has been the main focus of many of his books. He wrote the first biographies of Jasper Tudor and Owain Tudor, Henry VII's uncle and his grandfather.{{Cite web |title=Wales And The Tudors - An Interview With Terry Breverton |url=https://americymru.net/americymru/blog/4486/wales-and-the-tudors-an-interview-with-terry-breverton |accessdate=14 December 2024 |website=americymru.net}}

His An A to Z of Wales and the Welsh featured in national newspapers and he translated from mediaeval Welsh The Physicians of Myddfai - Cures and Remedies of the Medieval World.

Breverton has spoken at the North American Festival of Wales {{Cite web |title=North American Festival of Wales |url=https://festivalofwales.org/index.html#/ |access-date=2025-04-24 |website=festivalofwales.org |language=en}} at Vancouver (2003) and at Richmond, Washington DC (2007).https://www.peoplescollection.wales/sites/default/files/documents/wnaa00304_edit.pdf He has appeared in many TV documentaries, including flying to Los Angeles for True Caribbean Pirates.{{Cite AV media |url=https://letterboxd.com/film/true-caribbean-pirates/ |title=True Caribbean Pirates (2006) |language=en |access-date=2025-05-13 |via=letterboxd.com}}