"Lingua Latina - Latin: a rare subject on the school curriculum in Wales these days, but, as a school boy in Tredegar in the early 1970s, I became smitten by this fascinating language. And who would have guessed that Megan Lloyd George would help me in my studies?
As I got more proficient, I felt the need for a good dictionary. One day, browsing in a dusty second-hand book shop, I spotted a battered copy of White's Latin Dictionary. Whilst reinforcing the book's crumbling spine, my father noticed a faded red signature on the fly leaf: M Lloyd George. I began wondering how far Wales' first woman MP had got in her studies of the language. Could this very book have been thumbed by her father's hands?
With the help of Megan Lloyd George's dictionary, I went on to reveal the mysteries of Latin to a new generation of Welsh school children. Sadly, the language of the Romans is almost as rare in our schools these days as Megan's copy of White's dictionary."
