Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TIBBOTT family frequently among the Methodists and occasionally among the Baptists. He died 18 March 1798. His brother, JOHN TIBBOTT (died 1785), was also a Congregational minister Religion. For some years before his brother's ordination he assisted Lewis Rees, Richard's predecessor as minister at Llanbryn-mair. In 1763 he moved to Carmarthenshire to take charge of the churches of Ffaldybrenin and Esgairdawe. He died
TOMAS ap IEUAN ap RHYS (c. 1510 - 1617), writer of cwndidau (short religious songs or carols) grandson of Rhys Brydydd and cousin of Lewis Morgannwg. Although the home of this bardic family was in Tir Iarll and although Rhys Brydydd lived at Llanharan, yet it is said in Llanover MS. E4 (written c. 1613-4) that Tomas ab Ieuan ap Rhys lived at Llandudwg (Tythegston). Nevertheless, he and his family were closely connected with Llangynwyd. Little is known of his life. He says in one of his
TREHARNE, REGINALD FRANCIS (1901 - 1967), Professor of history Born 21 November 1901 in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshire, the son of Lewis Treharne and his wife Ethel Mary (née Hill) of Melksham, Wiltshire. He was educated at Ashton-in-Makerfield grammar school and the University of Manchester (B.A., 1922 and University postgraduate prize and studentship; M.A., 1923 and Langton Fellowship; Ph.D., 1925). He was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, Denmark. Till 1634 he was often consulted on questions of naval man-power and shipbuilding. He was a kinsman and correspondent of James Howell. THOMAS TREVOR (1572 - 1656), judge Law He is generally called the youngest of John Trevor's four sons, but D.N.B. post-dates his birth by fourteen years. Born in London, educated at the Middle Temple (November 1592), and called to the Bar in 1603, he became
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, and was rewarded with Irish land and office, a seat on the Irish privy council, and the title of viscount Dungannon and baron Trevor (22 August 1662). He married, as his second wife, Ann, daughter of John Lewis of Presaddfed, Anglesey, and widow of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton, and was succeeded in the peerage by her two sons, Lewis and Mark, after whose death without offspring, it lapsed (8 November
TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) , was born posthumously. Lewis Glyn Cothi and Dafydd Nanmor composed elegies upon him.
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet control over, the poets and their craft.' It was at that eisteddfod that he was made a bard or 'chaired' teacher. In the elegy he wrote for Tudur Aled, Lewis Mon has a couplet: ' Dug ar i wn, fel dau grair, Diwedd gwawd, y ddwy gadair ' (op. cit., II. 734), which was taken to mean that Tudur Aled was made a master musician as well as a master poet (op. cit., I, xxxviii). One of Tudur Aled's patrons was
TURNOR, DAVID (1751? - 1799), cleric and agriculturist died off Prince of Wales Island, 2 January 1801, aged 42. Another brother, LEWIS TURNOR, was in holy orders (matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 17 December 1777, aged 20). He purchased Wervilbrook, 1802, and continued his brother's agricultural interests, subscribing towards the Agricultural Society, and winning its premiums. He died in 1834.
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Lewis Valentine was born on 1 June 1893 in a house named 'Hillside' in Clip Terfyn street, Llanddulas, Denbighshire, the second of the seven children of Samuel Valentine (1854-1940), a quarryman who was a Baptist lay preacher, and his wife Mary (née Roberts, 1865-1928). He had three brothers, Richard, Idwal and Stanley, and three sisters, Hannah, Nel and Lilian. Bethesda chapel in Llanddulas was
VAUGHAN family Clyro, least two sons, ROGER VAUGHAN III, the heir, and THOMAS VAUGHAN, of Llowes, who married Sibyl, daughter of Howell ap Thomas Goch. The two brothers fell foul of bishop Rowland Lee in 1538. Thomas may have been the Thomas Vaughan of Clyro who was pardoned for a murder, 14 August 1536. The two brothers were closely examined by Lee and Sulyard, 18 July 1538, and whatever the cause may have been, it was
VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, muniments (in the National Library of Wales) is an indenture of 1547 whereby RICHARDE AP MORIS VAUGHAN, father of MORIS AP RICHARD AP MORIS of Llanafan, in consideration of the intended marriage between the son and Elliw, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Jenkin, covenants, with other persons, to assure to the use of the son and Elliw two messuages, etc.. one of which is 'the place at Trausgoed ', i.e
VAUGHAN family Llwydiarth, from Edward de Charleton, lord of Powys, dated 7 Henry V. The family is not mentioned by Lewis Glyn Cothi, and presumably was not powerful before Tudor times. The Vaughans appear to have been constantly at feud with the Herberts, which may explain why they provided no members of parliament for Montgomeryshire, and only one sheriff, JOHN ab OWEN VAUGHAN (in 1583); he married Dorothy, daughter of

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