Iorwerth peate biography for kids

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PEATE, IORWERTH CYFEILIOG (1901-1982), Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet

Name: Iorwerth Cyfeiliog Peate
Date of birth: 1901
Date of death: 1982
Spouse: Ann Peate (née Davies)
Child: Dafydd Peate
Parent: Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas)
Parent: George Howard Peate
Gender: Male
Occupation: Curator of the Welsh Folk Museum, 1948-1971, scholar and poet
Area of activity: Art and Architecture; History and Culture; Literature and Writing; Poetry; Scholarship and Languages
Author: Trefor M. Owen

Born 27 February 1901, at Glan-llyn, Llanbryn-Mair, the home of his parents George Howard and Elizabeth Peate (née Thomas). His elder brother Dafydd Morgan Peate (born 1898) became a bank manager and his younger sister Morfudd Ann Mary (born 1910) married Llefelys Davies the chairman of the Milk Marketing Board on New Year's Day 1942. A brother, John Howard Peate, died as a baby in 1899. Iorwerth Peate was educated at Llanbryn-Mair Elementary School and Machynlleth Grammar School where the headmaster H. H. Meyler influenced him. His father and grandfather were carpenters in the old tradition, but Iorwerth Peate, with a feeling of guilt, turned his back on this tradition and entered the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in

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Eurwyn Wiliam introduces Man, Myth and Museum: Iorwerth C. Peate and the Making of the Welsh Folk Museum.

Twenty years ago I was asked to lecture on what was regarded as a seminal book by Iorwerth C. Peate called The Welsh House (1940). In delving deeply into the book I realised how much it owed to the work of other people and how weak it was as a work of scholarship. How could this be, I wondered? This, after all, was one of the best-known academic works by a man known in Wales, and particularly to Welsh-speakers, as a poet, man of letters and above all the founder and first Curator (Director, in today’s parlance) of the Welsh Folk Museum, the institution now called, in English, St Fagans National Museum of History. Peate (1901–82) was the leading pioneer of the development of open-air museums in Britain and of the study of folk life or regional ethnology (a term he hated – one of many, as I was to discover).

Twenty years later, I feel that I know the man much better and have come to realise that he was a man of many contradictions. In the book, I try to place Peate amongst his academic and literary contemporaries, and examine in particular two aspects of his professional life, as academic and as curator. It turns out that he was not very good as a scholar, having fi