Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, HILDA CAMPBELL (1892 - 1985), author bestseller and was adapted as a play for the London stage. Encouraged by the success of this venture, Vaughan co-wrote two plays with Laurier Lister, She Too Was Young (1938) and Forsaking All Other (not performed). During the Second World War Vaughan and her children moved to the United States for safety, and it was here that her eighth novel, The Fair Woman, was first published in 1942. It was later
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure 1934 he became area officer of the South Wales Council of Social Services. In 1937 he joined the outside broadcast department of the BBC office at Cardiff, an ideal post for him as he was not expected to use a script. At the beginning of the Second World War he was transferred as a home-front reporter to the BBC in London, and in 1942 after covering the blitz, he became a war correspondent. Soon he
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer September 1942; his body was cremated at Liverpool crematorium.
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure Holywell urban district council and by 1919 he was on the county council, the main field of his public activity. He was created an alderman of the county council in 1931 and was a most effecive chairman, 1938-40. In 1920 he became J.P. and in 1945 vice-chairman of the court of Quarter Sessions. He was High Sheriff for Flintshire in 1942-43 and in 1945 he was appointed a C.B.E. Always a staunch Liberal
WATKINS, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister belonged to that section of the General Baptists whose unorthodoxy would not go beyond Arminianism, and he was appalled at the Unitarian leanings of some of his Welsh fellow-ministers; accordingly, in 1805, he and his congregation rejoined the Particular Baptists. He was warmly welcomed; his name appears immediately in the lists of festival preachers (Trafodion Cymdeithas Hanes Bedyddwyr Cymru, 1942, 16
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist . Following in the footsteps of her academic predecessor at the UCSWM, Professor Millicent Mackenzie (1863-1942), Wheeler also stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate. Despite her defeat, Wheeler nearly doubled the Labour vote in the University of Wales, polling 309 votes against the victorious Liberal candidate, Thomas Arthur Lewis's 497 votes. Wheeler played a leading role in women's associational
WILLANS, JOHN BANCROFT (1881 - 1957), country landowner, antiquarian and philanthropist : he represented U.C.W. on the Court of Governors of National Museum of Wales 1921-1957, and was a member of the Court of Governors National Library of Wales 1942-1957; member of Council 1945-1957. His interests lay mainly in the antiquarian and genealogical fields, in the preservation of the national heritage and in his Unitarian faith. He was a Life Member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association
WILLIAMS, ALUN OGWEN (1904 - 1970), eisteddfod administrator and supporter (1942-52) and Leeswood (1952-63) schools. Although he retired to Rhyl (Glan Ogwen, Grange Road) in 1963, he continued to teach Welsh in Offa's Dyke Comprehensive School, Prestatyn until 1965, He married (1) Lil Evans (died 2 August 1968) in Llanbedr, Meironnydd in 1932 and they had one son, Euryn Ogwen Williams. He married (2) Gwladys Spencer Jones in Colwyn Bay, June 1970 and moved to Noddfa, Erw-wen
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician unfailingly sympathetic towards those suffering poverty and hardship. Williams was elected M.P. (Lab.) for the Ogmore constituency in 1931 as successor to Vernon Hartshorn. He was parliamentary private secretary to the under-secretary for the Colonies, 1940-41, to the financial secretary to the Admiralty, 1942-43, and to the parliamentary under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, 1943-45. He served as
WILLIAMS, GEORGE (1879 - 1951), company director and Lord Mayor of Cardiff chaired the Chamber of Trade, the estates committee and the airport committee, and he played an important part in the city's acquisition of Cardiff Castle and Pontcanna Fields. A leading champion of Cardiff's claim to be recognised as the capital of Wales, he purchased Parc Cefn Onn and later donated it to the city. He was made a C.B.E. in 1938. In 1904 he married Margaret Jones (died 1942) and they had
WILLIAMS, JOHN HUW (1871 - 1944), newspaper editor , returning to Caernarfon (1942). He wrote a column ' Sibrydion yr Awel ', in Y Gwyliedydd Newydd. He was an actor, author of the play, Yr Hen Gojar (1925), pacifist, temperance advocate, and local preacher. He died 7 January 1944 at Caernarfon.
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Kyffin Williams was born at Tanygraig, Llangefni, Anglesey, on 9 May 1918, the second son of Henry Inglis Wynne Williams (1870-1942), a bank manager, and his wife Essyllt Mary (1883-1964), daughter of Richard Hughes Williams, rector of Llansadwrn. Their first son Owen Richard Inglis Williams (Dick) was born in 1916 and died in 1982. It was a matter of great pride for Kyffin Williams that his

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