Sir Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams was a Welsh poet, author and academic. Parry-Williams was born at Tŷ'r Ysgol in Rhyd Ddu, Caernarfonshire, Wales. He was educated at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Jesus College, Oxford, the University of Freiburg and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was a conscientious objector during the First World War.