 The founders ' hopes that their college would produce prominent Welsh clergy were fulfilled in no small measure when a former student , Alfred George Edwards , was elected the first Archbishop of Wales when the Church in Wales was disestablished in 1920 . Two later Archbishops of Wales , Glyn Simon ( Archbishop from 1968 to 1971 ) and Gwilym Owen Williams ( Archbishop 1971 – 1982 ) were also educated at the college . Celticists associated with the college include Sir John Rhys , Sir John Morris @-@ Jones , and Sir Thomas ( T. H. ) Parry @-@ Williams , whilst the list of historians includes the college 's first graduate , David Powel , who published the first printed history of Wales in 1584 , and the Victorian historian J. R. Green . Angus Buchanan won the Victoria Cross during the First World War . Record @-@ breaking quadriplegic solo sailor Hilary Lister was also a student here , whilst from the field of arts and entertainment there are names such as Magnus Magnusson , presenter of Mastermind , the National Poet of Wales Gwyn Thomas , and television weather presenters Kirsty McCabe and Siân Lloyd . Nigel Hitchin , the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford since 1997 , studied at the college , as did Edward Hinds ( a physicist who won the Rumford Medal in 2008 ) , Chris Rapley ( director of the Science Museum ) , and the zoologists Edward Bagnall Poulton and James Brontë Gatenby . 
