Dic Jones (30 March 1934 – 18 August 2009),[1] was a Welsh-language poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
[1] The son of a farmer, he himself farmed 85 acres (34 ha) at Fferm yr Hendre at Blaenannerch in Aberporth.
Jones began his literary career as a competitor in the Urdd eisteddfod, where, as an exponent of cynghanedd, he won the chair five times in his twenties.
In 1968, cameras from HTV filmed one of the first pieces of British reality television, when they followed Jones, his wife Jean, and three of their children, Delyth, Rhian and Dafydd, on a fortnight's holiday to San Antonio, Ibiza.
[4] Under his bardic name "Dic yr Hendre", Jones was installed as Archdruid in 2007, succeeding Selwyn Iolen.