Letter to the Editor

AN UNCOMMON CABMAN

Sir,
Some time ago I read with interest in one of the issues of The Carmarthenshire Historian an article^* on the Gwynne Family of Glanbrane Park in which mention was made that one of them had completely squandered his inheritance and had been reduced to driving a cab on the streets of Liverpool.

Recently I re-read some of Kilvert's Diary and under the date of Saturday, 22 June 1872 there is the following entry:

'I was very sorry to leave Liverpool this morning. Theodore went with me in the cab to Lime St. Station at 9.15. The cab was driven by an old gentleman, named Gwynne, who was once a man of good estate and county magistrate. He married a woman of family, but he dissipated his fortune and now he has sunk to be a common cabman and his wife makes him an allowance'.

WM. G. TASKER-DAVIES, Cardiff.
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