prominent Welsh poets of the later Middle Ages, was born in Hanmer. Margaret Hanmer, daughter of Sir David Hanmer, married Owain Glyndŵr c. 1383. Lorna Sage, author of Bad Blood, winner of the 2000 Whitbread Biography Award, grew up in Hanmer during the 1940s and 1950s. The book is about her grandfather's tenure as vicar of St Chad's parish church. Richard Steele (1629–1692), nonconformist theologian and rector, 1650–1666 R. S. Thomas (1913–2000), poet, was briefly curate in Hanmer in 1940–1942. References External links Photos of Hanmer and surrounding area on geograph Villages in Wrexham County Borough Communities in Wrexham County Borough History of Flintshire