The Ruthin Wikipedia page lists a number of notable people with connections to Rhuthun/Ruthin. This is an example of where
Wikipedia really struggles. There's no mention whatever of Gabriel Goodman or John Ambrose or
Geoff Dwight or Godfrey Lecomber or
Hafina Clwyd or
David Garland-Jones, for example, but rest easy because
Joe Woolford does get in. And, compare the lists on Wicipedia and Wikipedia.
Among them (on the English page) was Cynthia Lennon, who died yesterday, aged 75. Of course, Cynthia was only notable by association, owing to the fame of her former husband, the late pop star John Lennon. Indeed, it was upon Lennon's death in 1980 that elements of the paparazzi descended in number upon Rhuthun to try to secure an interview with Cynthia. At the time, there was a bit of a scrum around the Manor House where Cynthia kept a bistro with guest house accommodation above, by the name of Oliver's.
Cynthia lived in Record Street. Her son, Julian, later to become a popular music artist in his own right, attended Ruthin School. I never met him but I have encountered one local lass who claims Lennon Jnr dated her, for a time. Lennon Jnr is more the "notable" for his Rhuthun connections.
If you read Cynthia's Wikipedia page, assuming it's accurate, in spite of her being something of a hidden socialite during the her Beatles' days, you get a sense of an early life forlorn, one that was in and out of failed marriages, not helped, of course, by the rat Lennon. That period included her time in Rhuthun but, to be fair to her, Cynthia was always well liked and popular here. She was anything but the hippy into which her former husband turned. And I know of no one who ever caught a whiff of the personal problems that seemed to beset her.
