Edmund Charles Blunden (1896-1974), poet and university teacher, served as an officer in the First World War.

For more information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Llywelyn William (Billy) Maddock (1898-1988) was born in New Zealand to Llywelyn Maddock, photographer and Kandy branch manager of the Colombo Apothecaries Company, Ceylon, and Emma Brownlow King (d.1905), daughter of the Foundling Hospital artist Emma Brownlow. The family moved to England in 1902 but following Emma's death Billy's father returned to Ceylon and Billy was brought up in Newport by his grandmother Mary Jane Maddock and educated in boarding schools in Monmouth and Elstow, Bedfordshire.

Maddock served in the Monmouthshire Regiment during the First World War. After the war, he became a publisher's representative before becoming manager of the Fleet Street branch of W & G Foyle Ltd and editor of their inhouse magazine in 1927.

In August 1927, Maddock married Margaret Hailstone (d.1975) of Hadlow, sister of the portrait artist Bernard Hailstone and the cartoonist Harold Hailstone. They had four children.

In 1937, Maddock became a representative for Penguin Books. The Board of Trade appointed him as Senior Technical Adviser for Paper Control in 1942, a post he held until 1950. In 1942, he was also appointed by the National Pigeon Service as an adviser to the police and an authorised issuer of pigeon transit labels.

Maddock briefly worked at Hutchinson before becoming Evan Bros' representative in the South West until 1964 when he moved to Bath. On his retirement, Maddock and his wife moved to New Zealand where their son lived. After Margaret's death in 1975, Maddock briefly returned to Somerset before moving to British Columbia, Canada where their daughter lived and where he died in 1988.