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== Early life == Mathias was born at [[Talybont-on-Usk]], south-east of [[Brecon]] in [[Powys]], in 1915 and brought up mostly in England and Germany. He graduated in history from [[Jesus College, Oxford]]. ''Days Enduring'' (1942) was his first poetry collection. He was a [[pacifist]], and was twice gaoled in [[World War II]] as a [[conscientious objector]]. His career was in teaching, in Wales and elsewhere in the UK, notably serving as Headmaster of [[King Edward VI Five Ways School]], Bartley Green, [[Birmingham]], from 1964 to 1969. He retired to [[Brecon]] in 1969 and died in 2007; buried at Aber Chapel on the outskirts of Talybont on Usk. His son, Jonathan Glyn Mathias, known as [[Glyn Mathias]], is a well known political correspondent.
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