Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales offices. On 1 September he was appointed keeper of Henry VI's great wardrobe. Before 28 November he was married to Eleanor, daughter of Sir Thomas Arundel, and widow of Sir Thomas Browne, who had been executed on 28 July 1460 for his part in the defence of the Tower of London against the earls. The estates and grants of Sir Thomas Browne were confirmed to him and his wife, and so he acquired much wealth
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
VILE, THOMAS HENRY (1882 - 1958), rugby player
VINCENT family This notable clerical family, connected by birth and marriage with numerous landed and clerical families in Gwynedd, sprang from the Corbets of Ynys-y-maengwyn (says J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 237). VINCENT CORBET of Ynys-y-maengwyn (died 1723) had a son, THOMAS VINCENT, whom [it is said] he 'disinherited'; this Thomas (1677 - 1738) was successively vicar of Bangor and rector of Llanfachraeth
VINCENT, THOMAS (1677 - 1738), priest - see VINCENT
VINCENT, THOMAS (1677 - 1738), priest - see WYNN
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
WADE-EVANS, ARTHUR WADE (1875 - 1964), clergyman and historian English hymnody, and his MS of a proposed hymnal, ' Proper hymns for the Christian year ', is in the National Library of Wales with his other MSS and annotated volumes from his library. JOHN THOMAS EVANS ('Tomos ap Titus', 1 August 1869-10 May 1940), rector History and Culture Religion His elder brother, was educated at Llandovery, London College of Divinity and St. John's College, Cambridge, was rector
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
WALLENSIS four men, all of whom are mentioned in the D.N.B., bore this appellation, and it will be convenient to deal with them all under this one heading. (1) JOHANNES WALLENSIS (fl. 1215), lecturer in canon law at the university of Bologna EducationLaw. his surname is the only indication of his Welsh origin. (2) JOHANNES WALLENSIS (died 1285?); see under ' Johannes.' (3) THOMAS WALLENSIS (died 1255), a
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, EVAN JOHN (1893 - 1951), artist Born 6 January 1893 in the Welcome Inn, Mynydd-bach, Llangyfelach, near Swansea, Glamorganshire, son of Welsh -speaking parents, Thomas Walters and his wife Elizabeth (née Thomas). After attending the village school at Llangyfelach, he became an apprentice painter-decorator at Morriston, Swansea. In 1910 he entered the Swansea School of Art, then under Grant Murray. He went on to Regent Street

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