Morning" by Dylan Thomas, put to music by Pete Seeger as the song "The Bells of Rhymney", then recorded by the Byrds where it became known to millions although by then the Brecon line had gone missing. Points of interest Brecon Castle Brecon Beacons and National Park Visitor Centre (also known as the Mountain Centre) Brecon Beacons Food Festival Brecon Cathedral, the seat of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon Brecon Jazz Festival Buckland Coach House & Ice House Cae Gwernllertai Christ College, Brecon Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh Theatr Brycheiniog (Brecon Theatre) Y Gaer Notable people See :Category:People from Brecon Sibyl de Neufmarché (ca.1100 – after 1143), Countess of Hereford, suo jure Lady of Brecknock Gerald of Wales (ca.1146 – ca.1223), a Cambro-Norman priest and historian. William de Braose (ca.1197 – 1230), a Marcher lord. Dafydd Gam (ca.1380 – 1415), archer, died fighting for Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham KG (1478–1521) an English nobleman. Hugh Price (ca.1495 – 1574), founder of Jesus College, Oxford Admiral Sir William Wynter (ca.1521 – 1589), principal officer of the Council of the Marine Henry Vaughan (1621–1695), physician and author, a major Metaphysical poets. John Jeffreys (ca.1623 - 1689), landowner and politician, first master of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham Captain Thomas Phillips (late 17th C), slave trader Thomas Coke (1747–1814), Mayor of Brecon in 1772 and the first Methodist bishop. Sarah Siddons (1755–1831), well known tragedienne actress. David Price (1762–1835), orientalist and officer in the East India Company. Charles Kemble (1775–1854), actor, younger brother of Sarah Siddons. John Evan Thomas FSA (1810–1873), a Welsh sculptor Mordecai Jones (1813-1880), businessman, pioneered the South Wales coalfield, Mayor of Brecon in 1854. Frances Hoggan (1843–1927), first British woman to receive a doctorate in medicine Ernest Howard Griffiths (1851–1932), physicist and academic Llewela Davies (1871–1952), pianist and composer Dame Olive Wheeler (1886–1963), educationist, psychologist and university lecturer Captain Richard Mayberry (1895–1917), World War I flying ace Lt Col S. F. Newcombe (1878–1956), Army Officer and associate of T. E. Lawrence. Tudor Watkins, Baron Watkins (1903–1983), politician and MP John Fullard (1907–1973), tenor singer with the Covent Garden Opera George Melly (1926–2007), trad jazz singer, art critic and writer, retreat at Brecon between 1971 and 1999 Gareth Gwenlan OBE (1937–2016), TV producer, director and executive Roger Glover (born 1945), bassist and songwriter with the band Deep Purple Jeb Loy Nichols