Dictionary of Welsh Biography

KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Hamburg, where Clough died in 1570. She and Clough had two daughters, (a) Anne (born 1568), who married Roger Salusbury, and (b) Mary (born 1569), who married William Wynn of Melai. Clough provided handsomely for his widow and daughters and for his two stepsons. Katheryn returned to Berain and engaged William Cynwal of Penmachno, the bard and genealogist, to compile a record of her family - see his own
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, March 1822, J.P., D.L., for Monmouthshire and Somerset, colonel Somerset Militia. He married, as his first wife, 2 November 1848, Mary, daughter of George Frome, of Puncknoll, Dorset; as his second wife, 1873, Hannah Lewis; and, as his third, 1879, Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fothergill, M.P., Tenby. He died 10 January 1891. HALSWELL MILBORNE KEMEYS-TYNTE (1852 - 1899), J.P. and D.L. Politics
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, through her. Her own grandfather, and probably her first husband's also, had been Roundhead officers, members of Morgan Llwyd's congregation, and commissioners under the Propagation Act of 1649. John Kenrick was also a trustee under the will of Dr. Daniel Williams (1643? - 1716), but unlike Williams developed Arian views in later life. His brother DANIEL KENRICK, who had a chandlery business in Wrexham
KENWARD, JAMES (fl. 1868), writer and poet who lived at Smethwick, near Birmingham, in 1868. His published works include A Poem of English Sympathy with Wales which was written for the national eisteddfod of 1858 at Llangollen; a collection, entitled, For Cambria: themes in Verse and Prose; and The Life and Writings of John Williams (Ab Ithel), which was originally published in the Cambrian Journal.
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, defence of lord George Gordon in 1780; as judge, he presided over the trial of Stockdale for libel, in 1789, and, for a period, over the trial of Warren Hastings; he also tried Edward Jones, fl. 1741-1806. He was lord lieutenant of the county of Flint 1796-8, and 'Custos Rotulorum' from 1796 until his death. He married, 16 October 1773, at Deane, Lancashire, his cousin Mary, third daughter of George
KENYON, FANNY MARY KATHERINE - see BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE
KNIBB, MARY (c.1798 - 1866), abolitionist and social reformer Mary Knibb was born around the year 1798 in the parish of Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Her parents, whose surname was Watkins, died when she was young and little is known of her early life though it is safe to assume that she stayed in Wales as it was reported that Mary was a Welsh speaker. Mary moved to Bristol before March 1823, where she became a member of Broadmead Baptist church. She taught in
KNIGHT, WILLIAM BRUCE (1785 - 1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator was presented to the living of Llantrithyd, Glamorganshire, by Sir John Aubrey, and in 1817, by the trustees of C. R. M. Talbot, to the living of Margam and the consolidated rectory of Llandough-juxta-Cowbridge and S. Mary-church. With the help of a curate he served these parishes from 1817 to 1843, living in the old vicarage, Tynycaeau. He married Maria Elinor Traherne of S. Hilary. In 1843, he
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist New York. A diary was kept of the movements of the delegation (which also included Mary Ellis and Gladys Thomas) recording the presentation of the petition at the White House to President Calvin Coolidge, together with the journey to the West Coast. By the end of March 1924, the petitioners were back in Britain, and Elined was again promoting the cause of the League of Nations. Only through the
LAKE, MORGAN ISLWYN (1925 - 2018), minister and pacifist - where his father was headteacher - Islwyn attended Fishguard County School (1935-43) where he came under the influence of D. J. Williams, who was his sixth form Welsh teacher, and D. J. Bowen (1925-2017) was amongst his friends. The Rev. Irfon Samuel, the family's minister, together with D. J. Williams were early influences on him as a pacifist and a life-long member of Plaid Cymru. He registered as a
LANGFORD family Allington, unpleasantness between them at first, Richard Davies (1635 - 1708), the Quaker, has a good word to say about his friendly, tolerant, and neighbourly attitude towards him and his friends in the time of the great persecution (An Account of the Convincement … 3rd ed., 111). Allington passed to the second son of John Langford, also named JOHN. He was sheriff of Denbigh, 1677, and his wife, Mary, daughter of
LATHROP, RICHARD (d. 1764), bookseller and printer wife, whom he married on 14 February 1737/8, was Mary Hesketh. Lathrop was buried on 1 November 1764.

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