Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Porthaml, , and was dead before 25 September 1514, when those offices were granted to Sir Griffith ap Rice. His wife was Joan, daughter of Robert Whitney by Constance, daughter of James, lord Audley. The Vaughans of Tregunter descended from his second son, Thomas Vaughan. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, married Joan, daughter of Ieuan Gwilym Vaughan of White Peyton. The family became prominent with his heir, WILLIAM
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington , wife of Robert Whitney, upon whose wedding Lewis Glyn Cothi composed an epithalamium. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, maintained the tradition which made Hergest a resort for the greatest Welsh bards of the 15th century. For three generations Welsh culture found a home at Hergest. There were preserved the ' Red Book of Hergest,' which is now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the ' White Book of Hergest
VAUGHAN, ARTHUR OWEN (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863? - 1919), adventurer and author and D.S.O. He was the author of four novels: The Jewe of Ynys Galon (1895), Battlement and Tower (1896), The White Rose of Arno (1897), and Old Fireproof (1906). He collaborated with lord Howard de Walden in a drama, The Children of Don, 1912. His historical books, Flame bearers of Welsh History, 1905, and The Matter of Wales, 1913 (a more ambitious work), have not met with the approval of
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure of Rural Wales and Governor of the British Film Institute from 1977 to 1980. He was honoured for his contribution. As he spoke Welsh he was invited as a member (white robe) of the Gorsedd of Bards in the National Eisteddfod of Wales held in Haverfordwest in 1972, in his adopted county. After marrying in 1946 Charlotte daughter of John Rowlands, an important civil servant, they settled in Fishguard
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes knowledge which he had acquired in Europe, Vivian began to obtain numerous by-products from that mineral. He took out several patents (see details in D.N.B.) in connection with the manufacture of spelter, gold, silver, nickel, and cobalt. In 1864 he began to obtain sulphuric acid from copper smoke; in 1871 he erected works at White Rock, near Swansea, to treat poor silver-lead ores. It is no exaggeration
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Liber Landavensis on the basis of their Old French graphical phenomena', National Library of Wales Journal (1960); La civilisation française dan les Mabinogion (1962); 'The chronology of the White Book of Rhydderch on the basis of its Old French graphical phenomena', National Library of Wales Journal, (1964); 'The Book of Aneirin, its Old French remanients, their chronology on the basis of the Old
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr Born 1 May 1801 at ' Pwll-yr-hyward ' (probably Pwll-yr-hwyaid), Llanfoist (Llan-ffwyst), Monmouthshire; his father, of the same name, worked at Abertillery (Abertyleri), but returned to Llanfoist to work in the limestone quarries belonging to the Blaenavon iron-works, becoming a member of Llanwenarth Baptist church, where he married. The son became innkeeper of the 'White Hart' at Blaenavon, and
WHITE, Baroness - see WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD
WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE - see PRICE-WHITE, DAVID ARCHIBALD PRICE
WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician National Executive Committee of the Labour Party, she persuaded the party conference in 1947 to vote, by a large majority, for equal pay for women in the public sector. Flintshire was divided into two constituencies at the 1950 general election: Flintshire East and Flintshire West. With the assistance of Huw T. Edwards, a friend of Thomas Jones, Eirene White obtained the nomination for Flintshire East
WHITE, JOHN (1590 - 1645), Puritan Born 29 June 1590, the second son of Henry White of Henllan (Hentland) in the parish of Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire. He was descended from a family of Tenby merchants, one of whom, Thomas White, is said to have helped Henry Tudor to escape to Brittany in 1471. John White matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, on 20 November 1607, was admitted to the Inner Temple on 6 November 1610, and called
WHITE, RAWLINS (fl. 1485?-1555), one of the only three Marian martyrs in Wales the others were bishop Robert Ferrar and William Nichol of Haverfordwest, of whom nothing further seems to be known. White, a fisherman (from c. 1535) at Cardiff, is first heard of in the Ministers' Accounts of 1541-2, when he was the tenant of a half-burgage in the street extending from the West Gate as far as the wall of the town in front of ' le slauterhouse in Hom'by ' (= Womanby), i.e. in

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