Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, LOUIE MYFANWY (Jane Ann Jones; 1908 - 1968), novelist in hospital and failed to be at his funeral because of the state of her health. She had stayed for a time with Mrs. Bishop, Knapp House, Eardisland, near Ludlow, while she was recuperating after surgery. Mrs. Bishop kept The White Swan and according to one account Louie Myfanwy found the spot by accident after asking a bus driver for a suitable place to stay. Whether the story be true or not, the
THOMAS, MARGARET HAIG (1883 - 1958), suffragette, editor, author and businesswoman have been aware that it was their well-connected editor who, for example, described dining with the Roosevelts at the White House. The paper provided a useful platform for her causes, most notably her Six Point Group, started in 1921. Its six-point charter aimed to make gender equality paramount. Its prescient programme provided a legal and social context for the Representation of the People Act
THOMAS, RACHEL (1905 - 1995), actress returned to How Green Was My Valley, not as the Welsh Mam this time, but rather as a surly, snobbish housekeeper (prod. Martin Lisemore, dir. Ronald Wilson for the BBC, 1975-6). For her enormous contribution to the arts she was awarded the OBE in 1968 and the white robes of the Gorsedd at the Cwm Rhymni National Eisteddfod in 1990, adopting the bardic name 'Rachel o'r Allt'. She received a BAFTA Cymru
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America Columbia river, and was the first white man to descend it from source to mouth (1811), mapping as he went - a journey of over 1,200 miles. He left the North-West Company in 1812, settling at Montreal in order to construct his great map of the Far West, 'the basis of every Canadian government map for 100 years, and it still cannot be surpassed for accuracy' - it is now in the Ontario provincial archives
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 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, 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

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