THE last living link with Dymock poet Edward Thomas, his daughter Myfanwy, has died at the age of 95.
Miss Thomas, of Hungerford, Berkshire, was an honorary member of the Friends of the Dymock Poets.
She was just seven when her father was killed serving at Arras in the First World War. He was part of a famous colony of poets who lived in the Dymock area just before the war.
FDP chairman Roy Palmer, of Malvern, interviewed her in 2002 and described her as a "gracious and lively lady".
"I had been particularly intrigued to hear that she had worked in Malvern for the publisher Harry Batsford in 1944 and 1945, and afterwards had been secretary to Mr Gaunt, the head of Malvern College," he said. "In conversation, she made illuminating comments on her father, for example, remembering that The Banks of Sweet Primroses was one of his favourite songs."
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