Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Born 23 June 1878 at Pen-rhewllas farm, Mynydd Gelliwastad, Clydach, Glamorganshire, one of the 6 children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin. One of his brothers was William Rhys Watkin. He attended Pen-clun elementary school, near Rhydypandy, and then began work, aged 11, as a door-boy in a colliery. In 1893 he was apprenticed for 3 years to a builder, John Griffiths, in Pontardawe, where
WATKINS, ALBERT JOHN (1922 - 2011), cricketer the MCC was to Pakistan in 1955-56. He retired from county cricket midway through the 1962 season. He initially served as a warder at Usk Borstal before securing coaching positions at Framlingham School and subsequently at Oundle School, Northamptonshire where he served for four decades. Allan Watkins died at Kidderminster on 3 August 2011.
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant Born 3 December 1871 at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, son of Evan and Mary Watkins. One of ten children, he was educated at the local elementary school, and for five terms at the High School, Oswestry, under Owen Owen. He then returned home to assist his father, but in 1896 was appointed first Clerk of the Central Welsh board. In 1904 he was appointed chief clerk to the Education Department of the
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge , and a son, Rhodri. While the forces were being trained for the invasion of Europe, Watkins was posted in August 1943 as an instructor in the Rifle wing of the Advanced Handling and Fieldcraft school near Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. After the invasion of Europe in June 1944, he was posted to 103 Reinforcement Group in Normandy and on 25 July 1944 he joined 1st/5th Battalion of the Welch Regiment, a
WATKINS, TUDOR ELWYN (Baron Watkins of Glantawe), (1903 - 1983), Labour politician WEA and the National Council of Labour Colleges, and later (as the recipient of a bursary) at Coleg Harlech. He earned his living as a coalminer from the age of 13½, 1917-25, and then as the Labour Party agent in the Brecon and Radnor constituency, 1928-33. He was general secretary of the Breconshire Association of Friendly Societies, 1937-48. He was an alderman of the Breconshire County Council
WAYNE family, industrialists Roads, after the Rebecca Riots of 1843. On the death of his father in 1853, he became the manager of the Gadlys iron-works, which he enlarged and improved, building new forges and mills. He died 29 March 1867. (3) MATTHEW WAYNE (1812 - 1852), owner of the Carmarthen tin works Business and Industry He was married, but left no issue; he died in January 1852. (4) WATKIN WAYNE (1815 - 1869), Tŷ Mawr
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Association in North Wales in 1891, and of the General Assembly in 1902-3. He contributed articles to the monthly and quarterly periodicals and published his ' Davies Lecture,' The Holy Spirit, in 1900. His biography was written by D. D. Williams (1925).
WHITE, RAWLINS (fl. 1485?-1555), one of the only three Marian martyrs in Wales the modern Westgate Street. In the 1542-3 Ministers' Accounts he holds a 'farm' of five 'hengis' (hang-nets) in Roath manor. He was married, and had children. Though himself illiterate, he had learnt by heart passages of the Bible read out to him by one of his sons, and had become a Protestant. For this, he was arrested, and imprisoned at Chepstow and at Cardiff; persistent and kindly efforts were
WILKINS family '; (2) WILLIAM WILKINS Law, said to have been his fifth son (but this is in conflict with other statements), was deputy-protonotary, 1784-99, and protonotary from 1799 till his death in 1812; (3) ANNE WILKINS, who married John Maybery (died 1784), son of Thomas Maybery, a Worcestershire industrialist, who in 1720 had set up iron-works at Brecon - in 1758 'Maybery and Wilkins' erected a furnace at
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers served at Dover and Penzance. Next, being moved by the illiteracy of the masses, he started a school at Llanegryn, although he himself was unable to read - he used to get someone to help him to prepare for the next session of his school. Thomas Charles heard about him, and insisted on seeing him; he arranged for him to get a quarter's schooling, and then appointed him a paid teacher (at £3 a year
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer only two works of his which he printed and published (Oswestry, 1797; see Y Drysorfa, 1944, 60-1). Selections from his work were printed by O. M. Edwards (Cymru Fydd, iv, 41-4; Cymru, ii, 210-3; Beirdd y Bala, 40-8) - for that matter, nearly all our knowledge of him and his works is due to Owen Edwards. He died in August 1815 - he was buried at Llanfor, 1 September. William Edwards (1773 - 1853), the
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Llanrhaeadr, and described himself as an old man before 1559. He was one of the commissioners of inquiry for the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph appointed in 1535 in pursuance of articles and instructions relating to tenths and spiritualities. He was sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1542, 1547, and 1553. His will was dated 24 June 1558 and proved 3 June 1559. (His third son, Thomas, founded the family of

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