Editing Cynog Dafis (section)

== Early life and teaching career ==
Cynog Glyndwr Davies<ref>{{Cite journal |year=2006 |title=Births Registered in April, May and June 1938 |journal=England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2005 |publisher=General Register Office |volume=11a |page=1256}}</ref><ref name=":03">{{Cite news |date=17 August 1956 |title=General Certificate Examination Results |page=16 |work=Neath Guardian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/801009020 |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref> was born in [[Treboeth]], [[Swansea]], on 1 April 1938.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |year=2000 |orig-date=Published 1 September 1998; updated in 2000 on unspecified date |title=People in the Assembly: Cynog Dafis |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13129.stm |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=15 September 2003 |title=Plaid election married by paper chase |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3108842.stm |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref> His father was George Davies, a [[Presbyterian Church of Wales|Presbyterian]] [[The Reverend|reverend]], [[preacher]] and [[Minister (Christianity)|minister]].<ref name=":22">{{Cite book |last1=Waller |first1=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9mC7pEr0R6QC&pg=PA154 |title=The Almanac of British Politics |last2=Criddle |first2=Byron |publisher=Psychology Press |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-415-18541-7 |page=154 |language=en |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Owen |first=Gwilym |date=August 2003 |title=Mab y Pregethwr – adolygiad |language=Welsh |trans-title=The Preacher's Son – review |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/adloniant/llyfrau/adolygiadau/545-cynog-gwil.shtml |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref> He grew up in [[South Wales]]<ref name=":22" /> and attended Aberaeron Primary School, Aberaeron County Secondary School<ref>{{Cite news |year=1997 |title=Cynog Dafis: PC Ceredigion |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/politics97/mps/218.shtml |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=15 July 2010 |title=The presentation of Mr Cynog Dafis as Honorary Fellow of the University by Professor Roger Scully on Thursday 15 July 2010. |url=https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/news/archive/2010/07/title-88316-en.html |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=Aberystwyth University}}</ref> and [[Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School|Neath Boys' Grammar School]].<ref name=":12" /> He completed his secondary education in 1956, leaving grammar school with three [[GCE Advanced Level (United Kingdom)|A-levels]] in English, Welsh and history.<ref name=":03" />

Davies then [[Teacher training|trained]] to become a teacher at [[University College Wales, Aberystwyth]] (now [[Aberystwyth University]]), where he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] (BA Hons) and [[Master's degree|Master's]] in education.<ref name=":32">{{Cite news |date=1992 |title=New Faces |page=20 |work=New Statesman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tpsxAQAAIAAJ |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref> After his studies, Davies took to a career of teaching in secondary schools and institutions of further education.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 August 1997 |title=Class of 97 take up the reins |work=TES Magazine |url=https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/class-97-take-reins |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref><ref name=":32" /> He taught Welsh and English at Pontardawe College of Further Education from 1960 to 1962, and also taught English at Newcastle Emlyn Secondary Modern School from 1962 to 1980, [[Aberaeron Comprehensive School]] from 1980 to 1984 and [[Ysgol Dyffryn Teifi|Dyffryn Teifi Comprehensive School]] from 1984 to 1991.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":32" /> From 1991 to 1992, he was also a [[research officer]] in the Department of Adult Continuing Education at [[University College Swansea]] (now [[Swansea University]]).<ref name=":12" />

Davies married Llinos Iorwerth on 1 January 1962. Together, they have two sons and one daughter.<ref name=":12" /> The couple lived together at Crugyreryr Uchaf in [[Talgarreg]], [[Ceredigion]] for 38 years but have since moved elsewhere.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 September 2021 |title=Owner of former home of ex-Plaid MP denies replacing its Welsh name with English one |work=Nation.Cymru |url=https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-name-of-former-home-of-ex-plaid-cymru-mp-replaced-with-english-one/ |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1 October 2021 |title=Ex-MP's anger after English name given to former Talgarreg home |url=https://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/19615719.ex-mps-anger-english-name-given-former-talgarreg-home/ |access-date=14 January 2024 |work=Tivy-Side Advertiser}}</ref> At some point, Davies changed the spelling of his surname from its [[Anglicisation of names|English form]] to the [[Welsh surnames|Welsh form]] after his wife had done so to her own name; his name became Cynog Glyndwr Dafis.<ref name=":22" />'''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Gay |first=Oonagh |date=20 April 2009 |title=Members since 1979 |url=https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/RP09-31/RP09-31.pdf |journal=Research Paper |publisher=House of Commons Library |volume=9 |issue=31 |page=47 |access-date=24 December 2023}}</ref>'''