Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ROBERTS, OWEN OWEN (1793 - 1866), physician and social reformer thought of a home for mental defectives at Denbigh. O. O. Roberts also took a lively interest in education, and especially in the educational endowments of the dioceses of Bangor and S. Asaph. These had nearly all been misappropriated and he drew Parliament's attention to this and, especially, to the state of Llanrwst grammar school and Friars school, Bangor; and when the education commissioners arrived
SALUSBURY family Lleweni, Bachygraig, origin. They were established at Lleweni in the Vale of Clwyd before 1334, though no Salusbury appears among the original burgesses of near-by Denbigh, listed in its original charter (before 1290). The belief that a 'Sir' John Salusbury founded the house of White Friars at Denbigh and was buried there in 1289 is based upon several misconceptions, and has no foundation in fact. In the course of time the
THOMAS, JOHN (1736 - 1769), cleric and antiquary Born 22 October 1736 at Tyddyn Ysguboriau, Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Rowland; Richard Thomas (1753 - 1780) was his brother, and Ellis Owen of Cefnymeusydd was his sister's son. He was schooled at Llanystumdwy, Llanegryn, Botwnnog, and Friars (Bangor). He matriculated 20 March 1755 from Jesus College, Oxford, where John Lloyd 'of Caerwys' (1733 - 1793) was a friend of his; and
THOMAS, JOHN ROWLAND (1881 - 1965), religious leader and prominent merchant Born 2 March 1881 at Penrhyndeudraeth, Caernarfonshire, son of Griffith and Ann Thomas. In 1883 Griffith Thomas and the family returned to Dwygyfylchi, Penmaenmawr - his old area. John Rowland attended Pencae school, Penmaenmawr, and won a scholarship to Friars School, Bangor, but after two years transferred to the new John Bright School at Llandudno. He went to work for a short period for the
THOMAS, RICHARD (1753 - 1780), cleric, transcriber and collector of manuscripts, and genealogist Born 10 December 1753, son of Thomas Rowland, Tuhwnt i'r Bwlch, parish of Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, and Jane (Jones), his wife (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 359). He was a pupil at Friars School, Bangor, before he went to Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 28 November 1771, B.A. 1775). Towards the end of 1777 he became curate at Llanegryn, Meironnydd, and master at the school there - and
THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author Born 5 July 1870, the son of John Thomas, Bryncocyn, Llangywer, Merionethshire, and his wife Catherine who died when William was a child, and the family moved to Plas Madog, Llanuwchllyn. He went to Friars School, Bangor, before matriculating as a sizar at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1888; he had a scholarship in 1890 and graduated B.A. (class I part I in the classical tripos), and M.A. in
TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) , daughter of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset. But the fact that he died at Carmarthen on 3 November 1456, suggests that like his brother Jasper Tudor he was intended for an administrative career in Wales. He was buried in the house of the Grey Friars at Carmarthen, his remains being translated at the Dissolution to S. Davids cathedral. His son, Henry, 2nd earl of Richmond and later the first Tudor king
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet Sir Rhys ap Thomas (see op. cit., I, vii, xii, xiii, xiv; II, cxxxvii) who died in 1526. As the poet did not write an elegy upon him it is presumed that he, too, had died suddenly at Carmarthen and that he was buried in the Friars' graveyard, as is made clear in the laments written for him, in the habit of a Grey Friar - a habit assumed by him on his death-bed in the customary manner of those days
VINCENT family (Anglesey); he married Jane Anwyl, a descendant of the Anwyl family of Parc, Llanfrothen, and they had two sons. The elder, THOMAS VINCENT (1717 - 1798), graduated from Christ Church in 1739, and was archdeacon of Brecon in 1770 - he was also rector of Yatton, Som. His younger brother, JAMES VINCENT (1718 - 1783), graduated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1739, was master of Friars school (Bangor), vicar
WALLENSIS Grey Friar who became bishop of S. Davids Religion; there is no doubt at all that he was Welsh, for we have his own statement to this effect. He was one of the first four Grey Friars to teach at Oxford, and both Roger Bacon and Robert Grosseteste spoke highly of him (Little, Studies in English Franciscan History, 194-5). He was appointed bishop of S. Davids, 16 July 1247, consecrated 26 July 1248
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator Born 22 December 1879, son of the Rev. Thomas Jones Wheldon and Mary Elinor Powell, Bronygraig, Ffestiniog, Meironnydd. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, the High School, Oswestry, the University College of North Wales - he was the first secretary of the Students' Representative Council, 1899 - B.A. 1900, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B., 1903, M.A. in 1920). In 1906
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Caernarvon. He was sheriff for Caernarvonshire in 1670. He married (2) in 1671, Frances, widow of colonel Whyte of Friars (Beaumaris), daughter of Sir Edward Barkham, bart. (Cal. Wynn Papers, nos. 1982, 2121; Penrhyn MSS. no. 430; Williams, The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, 61; G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, iii, 213; Breeze, Kalendars, 56). He was followed by his two sons. Sir JOHN

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