By 1910, Virginia Woolf was writing that the era of John Singer Sargent was over and "the age of Augustus John was dawning." He superseded Sargent as Britain's most fashionable portrait painter, capturing the likenesses of Dylan Thomas, W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Thomas Hardy, T.E. Lawrence, James Joyce and Guilhermina Suggia — portraits renowned for their psychological penetration and occasional cruelty. Lord Leverhulme was so upset by his portrait that he cut out his own head and locked it in a vault.

From around 1910 he made regular painting expeditions into north Wales with his friend James Dickson Innes, working in the Arenig valley in Snowdonia and producing some of the finest landscape work of his career. This period was later the subject of a BBC documentary, The Mountain That Had to Be Painted (2011).

During the First World War he was attached to the Canadian forces as an official war artist, producing memorable portraits of infantrymen. He was the only officer in the British Army, apart from the King, permitted to wear a beard. He was made a Royal Academician in 1928, awarded the Order of Merit by George VI in 1942, and given the Freedom of the Town of Tenby in 1959.

His later career was marked by a decline that even his granddaughter Rebecca John acknowledged frankly in 2024 — too many society portraits, too much drink. But the early work, particularly the drawings and the pre-war oils, remains extraordinary. He wrote two volumes of autobiography: Chiaroscuro (1952) and Finishing Touches (1964, posthumously). He died at Fordingbridge, Hampshire on 31 October 1961, aged 83. His papers are held at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.

A poor working man with little formal education, Frost spent years developing his flying machine, which used reversible horizontal fans to gain height before spreading wings tilted by a lever. His patent, number 1894-20431, was registered in London on the 25th of October, 1894. The exact circumstances and success of his reported 1896 flight remain historically disputed, but he is remembered as one of Wales' earliest aviation pioneers.

Dale's 354-episode run as Big Mac made him one of the longest-serving cast members in Casualty's history, spanning close to a decade and a half on screen. Tenby remains proud of its connection to the actor, with residents recalling him working in his father's record shop long before he found fame.

Merrison was a member of Laurence Olivier's National Theatre Company in the 1970s and later worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, building the stage credentials that underpinned his celebrated radio and screen career.

Richards trained at the Welsh College of Music and Drama in Cardiff before going on to work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, including the filmed production RSC Live: Richard II. His screen work spans Hollywood epics - he appeared in Troy (2004) - through to genre films such as Panic Button (2011) and King Arthur: Excalibur Rising (2017), as well as television roles including a stint on the long-running soap Emmerdale.

His signature stage work, Playing Burton, sees him single-handedly bring to life the story of fellow Welshman Richard Burton - a fitting connection for an actor whose own career, like Burton's, began on the stages of Wales before reaching a national audience.

Recorde also served as Comptroller of the Royal Mint, and his high public profile ultimately contributed to his downfall through a damaging lawsuit. Despite dying in debtors' prison, his textbooks — including 'The Grounde of Artes' and 'The Whetstone of Witte' — remained influential in English mathematics teaching for generations after his death.