Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TREVOR, JOHN (d. 1410), bishop of St Asaph also the author of a well-known work on heraldry - the Tractatus de Armis, as well as of its Welsh version - and that he translated the life of S. Martin (Buchedd Sant Marthin) into Welsh (see Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, iv, 3, 4; v, 1). E. J. Jones has also suggested that the authorship of several historical works of the period may be attributed to him (see Speculum, xii, 196 et seq
TUDOR, OWEN DAVIES (1818 - 1887), legal writer Born 19 July 1818 at Lower Garth, Guilsfield, eldest son of Robert Owen Tudor, a captain in the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Emma, daughter of John Lloyd Jones, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, was admitted to the Middle Temple in April 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. After practising in London for many years he was appointed joint
TURBERVILLE family Crickhowell, The genealogies are confused and contradictory; that given in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, mixes them up with the Coity family in Glamorgan, and with some English branches. Sir John Edward Lloyd supports Theophilus Jones in the theory that there is no evidence for the statement that the Burghills preceded the Turbervilles at Crickhowell. ROBERT TURBERVILLE appears as a
TURNER, SHARON (1768 - 1847), solicitor and historian , in 1803, by publishing A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems. He was the first to discuss their antiquity, demonstrating the ignorance of the sceptics; see John Morris-Jones, Taliesin (= Cymm., xxviii). His letters to William Owen Pughe are in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS
TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry Lancashire friends, Thomas Casson and William Casson, to join him in working the quarry. This was done, Hugh Jones, Hengwrt Ucha, Dolgelley, joining them in a company called ' William Turner and Co. '; for the subsequent history of the undertaking, see G. J. Williams, Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog. His son, Sir Llewelyn Turner, in The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner (London, 1903), gives particulars of his
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army TWISLETON, married Margaret, daughter of William Griffith of Cefn Amwlch, and was justice of the peace for the county, as well as the sheriff in 1682-3. He died 26 December 1714. He was followed in the estate by his son GEORGE TWISLETON, who married Barbara Jackson, London (died 22 December 1732), whose daughter Mary married captain William Ridsdale of Ripon, who was killed at the battle of Dettingen
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist study Semitic languages under Professor Thomas Witton Davies (see the DWB article by Valentine himself), and Welsh under Professor John Morris-Jones. He had already begun preaching in 1912, and his intention was to become a minister after graduating. But his studies were interrupted by the First World War, and having joined the college OTC, in January 1916 he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist Ruth van Heyningen was born on 26 October 1917 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the only child of Alan Treverton Jones (1877-1924), a ship-owner, and his wife Mildred (née Garrod Thomas, 1882-1970). Her mother was a daughter of Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas (1853-1931), originally from Aberaeron, a doctor at the Gwent Royal Hospital and Liberal MP for South Monmouthshire (1917-18). Her father died when she
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 Courtfield, This family, which has given so many of its sons and daughters to the service of the Roman Catholic Church, has its home at Courtfield, in Welsh Bicknor, now in Herefordshire, but formerly in Monmouthshire. One of the Vaughan ancestors was WILLIAM AP JENKIN, alias Herbert, who was lord of Wern-ddu, Monmouthshire, in 1353; he was the ancestor also of the families of Proger of Wern-ddu, Jones
VAUGHAN family Pant Glas, the mansion disappeared a long time ago but the 'chapel of Pant Glas ' in the parish church retains its name). The family belongs to the same stock as those of Plas Iolyn, Voelas, Cernioge, and Rhiwlas; the genealogy is to be found in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 44, where, however, it is incomplete and incorrect. THOMAS VAUGHAN (I) was the grandson of Rhys ap Meredydd of Ysbyty Ifan, and was the
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

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