David Meredith, Esq

Surname: MEREDITH
Style: David Meredith, Esq
Recreations: pottering on the farm, visiting art galleries and growing trees

Career: specialist teacher Welsh Cardiff Educn Authy 1961-65, mid-Wales mangr then advtg and sales exec Wales Tourist Bd 1965-68, head of press and PR HTV Cymru/Wales 1968-89, co-fndr dir STRATA (PR co) 1989-90, estab David Meredith PR 1990-95, head of press and PR S4C Television 1995-2001; reg contrib to radio and TV in Wales; presenter in Eng and Welsh HTV: Pwy Fase'n Meddwl (quiz series), Gair o Wlad y Sais (lit prog), Arlunwyr (art series); memb: Royal Welsh Show Publicity Ctee 1969-, Mktg Bd Nat Eisteddfod of Wales 1990-2001, Cncl Nat Library of Wales 2002-07 (memb Advsy Ctee), Presbyterian Church of Wales Publicity Ctee, Welsh Academi; centenary offr Royal Welsh Agric Soc 2002-04; tstee Sir Kyffin Williams Tst 2009; RTS Award for Best Contrib to Television 1997-98, White Robe Gorsedd of Bards 2009; fell PR Soc of Wales 1984 (former chm), first BAFTA Cymru/Wales fell 2001

Books and Publications: Michelangelo (Life and Work), Rembrandt (Life and Work), Congrinero (for children), Anturiaethau Fôn Fawr a Bili Bach (with Owain Meredith, with design and visuals by SEI), Pwy Fase'n Meddwl (autobiography, 2002), Kyffin in Venice: An Illustrated Conversation (with artist Sir Kyffin Williams RA, 2006), Bro a Bywyd - Kyffin Williams - His Life, His Land (2008)