Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRYNACH (fl. late 5th century - early 6th century), saint to Rome and a sojourn of some years in Brittany, Brynach landed at Milford in south Pembrokeshire. He moved thence to a spot on the river Gwaun, and then on to the banks of the river Nevern. His final settlement was made at the modern Nevern on the banks of the river Caman, a tributary of the Nevern. The lord of that country, whose name was Clechre, surrendered possession of part of the district to
CARADOG FYNACH (d. 1124), recluse successful as to obtain a letter from the pope appointing the abbots of Whitland, S. Dogmaels, and Strata Florida, a commission to inquire into the case (8 May 1200). The first two were not inclined to do anything to enhance the credit of their antagonist in the fight for S. Davids, and accordingly the matter got no further. Lawrenny on Milford Haven has a church named after Caradog, and a well near
DAVIES, DAVID (1818 - 1890) Llandinam, industrialist and Member of Parliament Newtown (1861), Newtown and Machynlleth (1862), Pembroke and Tenby (1863 -extended to Whitland, 1866), ' Manchester and Milford ' (from Pencader to Aberystwyth, 1867), Van (Caersws to Van mines, 1871). The engineer for most of these lines was Benjamin Piercy, whom Davies accompanied in 1862 when he went to Sardinia to advise the company given the concession for railways in that island. In 1864 David
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker and his family over to make a settlement. On 16 October 1686, together with his son Rowland and about 100 of his neighbours, he sailed from Milford Haven to Pennsylvania. He arrived in Philadelphia in April 1687, and settled at Bryn Mawr, now Lower Merion. After making arrangements to make this place his new home he returned to Wales in 1688 and, later, returned again to Pennsylvania with the
EVANS, WILLIAM DAVIES (1790 - 1872), inventor of a chess gambit have been destroyed. In 1804 he went to sea and served in the navy until the Napoleonic wars ended in 1815. Transferred to the postal department, in 1819, he was the captain of a sailing packet, the Auckland, running between Milford Haven and Waterford. During this period he played a great deal of chess with a distinguished chess-player, Lieut. Harry Wilson, R.N. It was about 1824, in a steam postal
GREVILLE, CHARLES FRANCIS (1749 - 1809), founder of Milford Haven town, Pembrokeshire accommodation of passengers to Ireland. He invited several families of American Quakers, who had been engaged in South Sea whaling from Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, to settle at Milford. The first of them arrived in 1793 and for some years they carried on trade in spermaceti oil which had been used as an illuminant in London. He also induced the navy board to commission the building of frigates, the first
HARRIS, JOHN (d. 1680), bishop of Llandaff son of George Harris, Milford, Pembrokeshire. He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1697 (B.A. 1701, and M.A. 1714). He was for some time rector of Rudbaxton, Pembrokeshire, and from 1708 to 1729 rector of Lampeter Velfrey. In 1728 he became Fellow of Oriel; in the same year he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Cambridge and was made canon of Canterbury cathedral. In 1729 he
HASSALL, CHARLES (1754 - 1814), land agent and surveyor latter's retreat from Fishguard. Using this opportunity to get even with the Knox family, he was instrumental in causing Knox to resign his command of the Fishguard Volunteers. Hassall became Major of Pioneers in the invasion scare of 1803 and secretary to the Pembrokeshire Agricultural Society in 1806. A capable and knowledgeable agriculturalist, he was on friendly terms with lord Milford, lord Cawdor
HENRY (1457 - 1509), king of England ap Iorwerth, and of the Mortimer family. Henry spent his early years in Wales, mainly under the tutelage of his uncle, Jasper Tudor, earl of Pembroke. After the final Lancastrian disaster of 1471, Henry and Jasper fled to Brittany where they remained until the epochmaking landing at Milford Haven 7 August 1485. The subsequent dramatic march to Shrewsbury led to the decisive victory of Bosworth, 22
HERBERT family South Wales. He held regular court, reforming many abuses, instilling into the Welsh gentry a sense of public duty, instituting a great drive against recusants and urging strongly the defence of Milford Haven against Spanish invasion (1595). But ill-health set in from 1590 and became almost chronic from 1595, and his frequent absences led to intrigues within the Council against his authority, a return
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general Poyer, and at this juncture Rowland Laugharne and Rice Powell seem to have joined him. Laugharne was no doubt influenced by the fact that the earl of Essex was now commander-in-chief of the Parliamentary forces. Essex, it should also be added, was a local landowner with an estate at Lamphey, near Pembroke. With the assistance of Parliamentary ships which were driven into Milford Haven by stress of
LOCKLEY, RONALD MATHIAS (1903 - 2000), farmer, naturalist, conservationist and author Ronald Lockley was born on 8 November 1903 in Cardiff, the fifth of six children of Harry Lockley, a railway clerk, and his wife Emily Margaret (née Mathias) from Milford Haven. His father gambled and was away for long periods. His mother supported her family by establishing a school - Milford House in Whitchurch - beginning with five of her own children and a single paying pupil. In ten years

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