Sir Cennydd George Traherne, KG TD

Territorial Decoration

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 14 December 1910-1995) was a notable Welsh

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 landowner.

Sir Cennydd was born at Coedarhydyglyn

Coedarhydyglyn

Coedarhydyglyn or Coedriglan, formerly Old Coedarhydyglyn , is a private Grade I listed neo-classical regency villa and estate on the western rim of Cardiff, less than half a mile from Culverhouse Cross, southeast Wales. It is accessed via the A48 road between Cardiff and St...

 near Cardiff

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 , and was educated at Wellington College

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 and Brasenose College, Oxford

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.

He owned Dyffryn House in Glamorgan, among other properties, but in 1939 he leased it to the local authority. After distinguished service in World War II

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, he went into politics, but failed to be elected as an MP. He was a Knight of the Garter (1970) and was Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan

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 from 1952 until 1974 (when, in a unique appointment for Wales, he became Lord Lieutenant of the three counties of South, Mid and West Glamorgan with a Lieutenant serving under him for each county). He eventually retired from the post in 1985.