Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, WILLIAM (1575 - 1641), author - see VAUGHAN
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM HUBERT (1894 - 1959), railway guard and chairman of the Welsh Land Settlement Society
VINCENT family College, Oxford, in 1849; he was perpetual curate of S. Anne's, Llandygai, 1857-9, and was then appointed vicar of Llanbeblig (Caernarvon), where he died 8 September 1869 as a result of his self-sacrifice during a cholera epidemic. His sons (by Grace Elizabeth, daughter of William Johnson, rector of Llan-faethlu) call for notice. The eldest, JAMES EDMUND VINCENT (1857 - 1909), whose career is fully
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes to say that under his influence Swansea became 'the metallurgical centre of the world.' Vivian became the first chairman of the Glamorgan county council (1889). After the South Wales coal strike in 1889 he introduced the celebrated 'sliding scale' in regard to wages (see also under William Abraham (Mabon) and William Thomas Lewis). He helped to extend the harbour facilities of Swansea and was one
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer Born 8 January, 1823, Kensington Cottage, Usk, Gwent, son of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne (n. Greenell). When Wallace was three years old the family moved to England where the young Alfred Russel attended school at Hertford. Aged 13 he moved to live with his brother John in London. Some years later he moved to live with his other brother, William, who was already established as a land
WALTER, HENRY (1611 - 1678), Puritan preacher, Independent ideas of William Wroth of Llanfaches; indeed, he was Wroth's prime favourite, and his name appears in Wroth's will (September 1638) as chief executor; for all that, early in 1639, through the help of his brother John as patron, he was made curate of Mounton, a small parish near his home. Curate or not, Puritan he was, and in 1646 he was named by Parliament, with two others, to go on an evangelical
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II had connections with some of the leading county families in West Wales. Her father, William Walter of Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, was the grandson of William Walter, who had purchased the manor of Roch from the de Longuevilles c. 1601. He had married Jane, daughter of Francis Laugharne of S. Brides, and Janet, daughter of John Philipps of Picton Castle. Her mother was Elizabeth Prothero, daughter
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer William Thomas, minister (Congl.) of Gwynfe, and Mary his wife; they had three children. In his latter years his health was impaired by the effects of the air-raids on Liverpool and also on Swansea where a great deal of the fruit of his scholarship and literary work was lost when Morgan and Higgs' bookshop was destroyed by enemy action. He died at his home 12 Hampstead Road, Elm Park, Liverpool, on 24
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Irwyn Walters was born on 6 December 1902 in Ammanford, the second of six children of William Walters and his wife Elizabeth (née Morgan). His father kept a tobacconist and newsagent's shop at Clifton House on the town square; he was also a keen solfaist and precentor at the Ebeneser Baptist chapel. Irwyn received early instruction in music from Gwilym R. Jones (1874-1953), conductor of the
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer printing press in Glamorgan. He published A Dissertation on the Welsh Language, 1771, and Dwy Bregeth, 1772, but his chief work was the large English-Welsh dictionary. This was based on the unpublished dictionary of William Gambold, but Walters was assiduous in collecting material of all kinds. The work was printed at the Cowbridge press, part one appearing on 5 April 1770. Fourteen parts were issued
WALTERS, THOMAS GLYN (WALTER GLYNNE; 1890 - 1970), tenor
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist William Warrington was born at Brynyffynnon, Wrexham in 1735, the fifth of eight children of George Warrington (1695-1770) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thornhill, 1706-1788). Both his parents were from Lancashire and of minor gentry status. The place of his education is unknown. He married Dorothy Lever, and they had one daughter, Dorothy, who married James Brasier La Grange of Westminster and

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