12:15pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010
A college principal who was brought up near St Clears has received his OBE from the Prince of Wales at a recent investiture.
Meredydd David, who is head of one of Britain’s premier land-based colleges, Reaseheath in Nantwich, Cheshire, was given the award in the 2009 Queen’s birthday honours for his outstanding services to local and national further education.
Meredydd was a partner on the family farm alongside his parents between 1984 and 1990, and he is a former head of the faculty of leisure and tourism and land-based studies at Carmarthenshire’s Coleg Sir Gar.
He was also an active member of St Clears YFC, winning the UK national junior public speaking championship and the national farm management competition. He played rugby for Narberth RFC for many years.
He has been principal at Reaseheath since 2004 and he and his wife Lisa have three children, Thomas, Owain and Cerys.
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