Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TURNER, MERFYN LLOYD (1915 - 1991), social reformer and author Merfyn Turner was born in Penygraig, Rhondda on 20 October 1915 to Edward Godfrey Turner and his wife Lizzie Violet Turner (née Lloyd). He had one brother, Rhiwallon, and two sisters, Beryl and Corriswen. The family moved around Wales during his childhood due to his father's vocation as a Wesleyan minister, and he attended a number of different schools. He studied for an arts degree at
TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry , Croesor, he was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1823-4, and of Merioneth, 1832-3. He died in November 1853. TURNER (Sir) LLEWELYN (1823 - 1903); Born 11 February 1823 at Parkia (and christened 26 February 1823 at Llanfairisgaer church), son of William Turner and his wife Jane (Williams), who was connected with the family of Griffith Williams (died 1672), bishop of Ossory, Ireland. In his Memories
TYSILIO (fl. 7th century), Celtic saint as a lad to embrace the religious life and left his family and went to Meifod in Montgomeryshire to be instructed by the abbot Gwyddfarch. Later he retired to the shore of the Menai and founded there the church of Llandysilio. After his return to Meifod he was subjected to considerable annoyance at the hands of his sister-in-law and consequently fled to Brittany and founded the church of S. Suliac
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist he was welcomed back to his ministry after his release from prison. Valentine was invited in October 1943 to become minister of Sïon chapel in Ponciau near Wrexham. He refused that invitation, but when a call came to Penuel chapel in Rhosllannerchgrugog in 1947 he decided after much deliberation to accept it. It was a big change for the family to move from the town of Llandudno to the mining
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist transfusions. Following the appointment of Kits van Heyningen to a permanent academic post, the family moved to Oxford in 1947 and Ruth began work with the physiologist Joseph Weiner on the composition of sweat and the way the human body withstands heat by sweating. She completed a DPhil thesis on this topic in 1951 and published a series of papers with Weiner. Through her friendship with Antoinette Pirie at
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician Pendrill Varrier-Jones was born at Glyn Taff House, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on 24 February 1883, the son of Dr Charles Morgan Jones, a local doctor, and his wife Margaret Varrier (née Jenkins), whose family ran a coal mining business. (He changed his surname from Jones to Varrier-Jones in 1929). He had one sister. He was educated at Epsom College and then Wycliffe College, Stonehouse. At
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, The Vaughans of Golden Grove claimed descent from Bleddyn ap Cynfyn, prince of Powys. The first member of the family to settle at Golden Grove was JOHN VAUGHAN. His son, WALTER VAUGHAN married (1) Katherine, second daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys of Dinefwr (see Rice family), and (2) Letitia, daughter of Sir John Perrot. He was succeeded by his eldest son JOHN VAUGHAN (1572 - 1634), M.P. Politics
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington an allusion by Guto'r Glyn, believed that he fell in a preliminary skirmish on Monday, 23 (recte 24) July. From Lewis Glyn Cothi's elegies upon his death it could be argued that he fell in the main battle on the 26th, and there was a tradition in the family in the time of Dr. John David Rhys that he, and not Sir Richard Herbert, was the hero of that battle. His body was brought home for burial at
VAUGHAN family Llwydiarth, This well-known family was not of Montgomeryshire origin. The first member, Celynin (fl. early 14th century), is said to have fled from South Wales, after killing the mayor of Carmarthen; his first wife, Gwladus, was heir of Llwydiarth and descended on both sides from the princes of Powys. GRUFFYDD, great-great-grandson of Celynin, was an adherent of Owain Glyn Dwr and received a pardon for this
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine - see Vaughan family of Bredwardine - by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half-brother William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, The pedigree of this illustrious North Wales family as given by Lewis Dwnn, deputy-herald-at-arms, and by other genealogists, begins (normally) with the union of Osbwrn Wyddel and the daughter and heiress of the old Welsh family of Corsygedol, this daughter being a ward of Llywelyn the Great. Details of the pedigree were given to Dwnn, when he visited Corsygedol in 1588, by GRIFFITH VAUGHAN, head
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, This was the main branch of the Vaughans who traced their descent, through WALTER SEYS, to MOREIDDIG WARWYN (to whom the origin of the family's coat of arms, three boys' heads with a snake entwined about their necks, was ascribed), and thence to DRYMBENOG AP MAENARCH, lord of Brycheiniog. The family had accumulated property at Llechryd in Elvael and Cwm Du before Walter Seys had won renown and

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