Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKINS, THOMAS (fl. 17th century), Puritan preacher, Particular Baptist home of the Welsh Baptists. Under the stresses of the Restoration the Hay church disintegrated, and Watkins (whose home was in that neighbourhood) became recognized as the pastor of the Olchon Baptists, and early in August 1662 he and sixteen others from the parish were summoned to appear before the consistory court at Brecon to answer for their nonconformity. The outstanding event in his career was
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited and Echo in 1940, became a director in 1946, and vice-chairman in 1959. He retired in 1960. Keenly interested in education in Wales, he was a member of the Court of the University of Wales and the Council of University College, Cardiff. He was also very active in the business community and many good causes in south Wales. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1946 for his work with the Cardiff Savings
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist vice-president of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association, and sat on the university's Court of Governors. She later served on the Welsh Joint Education Committee, and the Council of the Welsh National School of Medicine. Wheeler was a pioneer of interdisciplinary research, applying psychology to issues of educational policy and practice. She highlighted the importance of early childhood in
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator unremitting service: Chairman of the Welsh Committee, Festival of Britain, 1951; Chairman of the Council of School Broadcasting for Wales, member of the Court and Council of the University of Wales, Vice-President of the University Council of North Wales and President of the Cymmrodorion Society. In 1939 he was knighted, and appointed K.B.E. in 1952; the University of Wales conferred upon him the degree of
WHITE, JOHN (1590 - 1645), Puritan to the Bar on 19 June 1618 (Bencher, 1641). In 1625 he and eleven others raised a fund to buy impropriated tithes in order to make provision for a preaching ministry, but the funds were confiscated by order of the court of Exchequer. White became Member of Parliament for Southwark in 1640. In 1642 he became the leading member of the Committee for Plundered Ministers which ejected royalist clergymen
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician Wiliems was reputed to be a papist, and was arraigned as a recusant before a bishop's court at Bangor in 1606 and before the archbishop's court in 1607. He adds that lady Bodvel affirmed that Thomas Wiliems, having some knowledge of the Gunpowder Plot, persuaded her father, Sir John Wynn, not to attend that assembly of Parliament. Throughout his life, Thomas Wiliems was an ardent student of Welsh
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' gossip, of helping the French to liberate America; he was also a shareholder in the Paris water-works, which John supplied with cast-iron pipes (1788). On his return he had a violent quarrel with his brother (probably over the Brymbo scheme) resulting in the temporary closure of Bersham by court order (1795), migration or enlistment of unemployed workmen, and the exclusion of William when work was
WILLANS, JOHN BANCROFT (1881 - 1957), country landowner, antiquarian and philanthropist until his death, serving as chairman of the County Records Commiteee and County Library Committee. He represented Montgomeryshire County Council on the Court of Governors of the University of Wales 1934-1957, of University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1907-1927, and of University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1936-1957, Life Governor of U.C.W., Aberystwyth, from 1919; member of Council 1914-1957
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, MSS. 77; for his interests in Oswestry see E. G. Jones, Exchequer Procs., 345). This step involved him in litigation with his grand-daughter by his first marriage in the court of Wards (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1603-10, 642). He was litigious by nature and there can be no doubt that the estate became embarrassed as a result. He appears to have pursued a life-long feud with his
WILLIAMS, ALUN OGWEN (1904 - 1970), eisteddfod administrator and supporter the party's compere and reciter. A member of the Gorsedd for 40 years, he served as chief marshal, its secretary for ten years and as membership secretary of the Eisteddfod Court for a similar period.
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN HAYDN (1902 - 1965), education officer Industrial Research in London. In 1931 he was appointed lecturer at Wrexham Technical College and was responsible for developing their chemistry department, specialising on the industrial side. In 1938 he came to the then Flintshire, as deputy Director of Education and became Director of Education in 1941. He was a member of the Court and Council of the University of Wales and a member of several sub
WILLIAMS, DANIEL HOWELL (1894 - 1963), aerodynamicist fundamental experiments which amongst other things provided verification of the law of Kutta and Joukowksy connecting the lift of an aerofoil and the circulation around it. This important work was later published in Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (1925). Following the loss of the airship R.101 in 1930 Dan Williams returned to work on airships. At the request of the Court of Inquiry he and A.R. Collar carried out a

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