Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor
WOGAN family 15th century HENRY WOGAN of Milton, son of Sir John Wogan of Wiston, married Margaret Dyer of Boulston, and from this union the Wogans of Boulston were descended. JOHN WOGAN, son of Richard Wogan of Boulston by his wife Matilda, daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips of Cil-sant, was sheriff for Pembrokeshire in 1566, 1574, 1584, and 1598? and Member of Parliament for the county in 1545-7, 1553 (Williams
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies Music Performing Arts He is said by some to have been born on the roadside near Barmouth; he was christened at Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, 6 April 1800. He was taught to play the harp by his father and by Richard Roberts of Caernarvon (1769 - 1855), and became one of the most celebrated harpists of his tribe and, indeed, of the country; he was generally known as ' John Jones.' He was at one time family
WOOD, MARY MYFANWY (1882 - 1967), missionary in China, 1908-51 Born 16 September 1882 in London. Her father (Richard Maldwyn) was from Machynlleth and her mother (Hannah) from Swansea; they had four children. Her parents became members at the Borough Welsh Congregational chapel in London and she was accepted into full membership there in 1896. She received her early education in Dulwich and then went to St. Mary's College, Cheltenham training to be an
WOOD, RONALD KARSLAKE STARR (1919 - 2017), botanist into diseases in agricultural crops was his first taste of plant pathology, and he also carried out work at the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the war years. In 1945 he was appointed an assistant lecturer at Imperial, gaining his PhD in 1948 for a study of biological control of a soil-borne pathogen. He married Marjorie Schofield (1925-2014) in 1947, and they had a son Richard and a daughter
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician 1940. They had two sons and a daughter. He spent his last years at his home Adare Manor, Limerick. He died 23 October 1952 at his home in Limerick aged 95. His heir was his elder son Richard Southwell Windham Robert, Viscount Adare (1887 - 1965).
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author connected by marriage with the Carnes of Ewenny, the Thomases of Llanfihangel and the Vivians of Swansea. His father, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven, was M.P. for Glamorgan, 1837-1850. His mother was Augusta, daughter of Thomas Goold, master in chancery in Ireland. Owing to his father's conversion to Roman Catholicism (although the son remained a Protestant), he was educated
WYNN family Gwydir, the dominant party in Caernarvonshire, and it was only in the closing years of his life that the supremacy of his family and party in the county was threatened by the rivalry of the Griffiths of Cefn Amwlch, leaders of the conservative Llyn squires (see under Sir Richard Wynn, second baronet). He attempted to introduce the manufacture of Welsh friezes into the Vale of Conway, was interested in the
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, castle, continued the line. Humphrey married Annes, daughter of Sir Richard Herbert, Montgomery, and was, by her, the father of JOHN WYNN AP HUMPHREY, who married Ann, daughter of Rhys Vaughan of Corsygedol, and was succeeded by his son, HUMPHREY WYNN (living in 1571). Humphrey Wynn, to whom Siôn Phylip addressed a cywydd asking him to give a harp to Siôn ap Richard, Pennal, married Jane (Hughes, of
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, This family traces its descent from Osbwrn Wyddel, a member of the Geraldine clan. EINION, living 16 October 1380, and fifth in descent from Osbwrn, married Tanglwst, daughter of Rhydderch ap Ieuan Llwyd, of Gogerddan, Cardiganshire. He was succeeded by IFAN (living 6 October 1427), RHYS, and IFAN (living 4 March 1513), who married Laurea, daughter of Richard Bamville, of the Wirral, Cheshire
WYNN family Bodewryd, 4 May). His wife was Grace, daughter of John Griffith III, of Chwaen Hen, in Llanddyfnan. Their marriage settlement was drawn up on 1 November 1577. She later married William Bulkeley of Coedan, and was alive in 1629. John Edwards had a brother, Richard Edwards, who was a citizen and girdler of London. With John Edwards's heir, EDWARD WYNN, the family surname became established. In 1616 Edward

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