User:Ashlar/Parkyvelvet Academy

School in Carmarthen Wales

Also known as Parc-y-felfed (or simply Parcyfelfed) preparatory school. Possibly also referred to as Park-y-Velvet Grammar School.

May have been a tertiary institution.

An 1877 advert described it as a classical, mathematical, and commercial school and it prepared young men for different colleges, with special attention on those preparing for the medical professions, pharmaceutical and civil service, Oxford and Cambridge entrance exams, and commercial pursuits. So a finishing school of sorts or like a modern day sixth form college?

History
Opened by Rev Titus Evans (father of Walter Jenkin Evans). He was a tutor therein 1855

Also said to have been opened (for the year?) on 7 August 1884 by Rev J Cerridfryn Thomas

There was some controversy about the school in 1892.

Principals
Rev. Titus Evans

Rev J Cerridfryn Thomas in 1884

J B Thomas, the former's brother, in 1892)(sometime before 1919)

Notable alumni

 * Walter Jenkin Evans
 * James Charles (1846 - 1920), Independent minister and theologian
 * Thomas Lewis (1837 - 1892), Independent minister and tutor
 * Watcyn Wyn, poet in 1875 about age 31