Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WOOD, RONALD KARSLAKE STARR (1919 - 2017), botanist Ronald Wood was born on 8 April 1919 at 10 Union Street, Ferndale in the Rhondda Valley, the son of Percival Thomas Evans Wood (1891-1975), colliery fitter, and his wife Flossie (née Starr, 1893-1989). He attended Ferndale Grammar School, and in 1937 he gained a scholarship to Imperial College London, where he graduated with a first class degree in botany in 1941. A year spent assisting research
WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper briefly back to Ffrwdfâl Academy but left October 1845 to assist his father in the family business, travelling extensively in both England and Wales. He married Marianne, daughter of Peter Jones, at Llanddewi Abergwesyn parish church on 18 June 1858. He died on 2 May 1891 after a brief illness and was buried in Beulah (Congl.) cemetery. In 1861 he took over responsibility for the shop. This enabled him
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player , and 2) Enid Mary James of Ogmore Vale in 1948, with whom he had three sons and two daughters. Whilst still a pupil at Rydal School he played rugby for Sale, and then represented Wales in 1933 against England in the memorable match when Wales won for the first time at Twickenham. He was awarded 18 caps between 1933 and 1939, playing a key role in the victory over New Zealand in 1935, and captained
WYNN family Bodewryd, HOWELL is named as one of the heirs of ' Gwely Meuric ap Gathayran ' in the Record of Caernarvon. Howell is described as a free tenant in Caerdegog in 1391. He took part in the war of Owain Glyndwr, and was one of the long list of amerced persons, 10 November 1406. His wife was Angharad, daughter of Madoc ap Howell Gymen. His son GRIFFITH AP HOWELL's name is found in documents in 1421-2. LLEWELYN, son
WYNN family Gwydir, vigorously into the public life of North Wales; he was high sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1587-8, 1603, of Merioneth, 1588-9 and 1600-01, and of Denbighshire, 1606-7, and Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire, 1586-7. He was knighted in 1606, appointed a member of the Council of the Marches in 1608, and created a baronet in 1611. Unscrupulous, acquisitive, litigious, and hot-tempered, he was the leader of
WYNN family Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, Maes y Pandy) and left two daughters, coheiresses - (1) ELIZABETH (died 17 May 1642); she married Sir JAMES PRYSE of Gogerddan (died 1642), who was high sheriff of Merioneth in 1606 and to whom Rhisiart Phylip, Siôn Phylip, and Siôn Cain wrote poems, and (2) CATHERINE, whose husband was John Owen ap John ap Lewis ab Owen, of Llwyn, Dolgelley. The heir of Elizabeth and Sir James Pryse was their
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, elected for Caernarvon boroughs in 1698 (Sir Robert Owen was grandson of Sir John Owen of Clenennau, (1600 - 1666), the Royalist soldier; through his mother, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Lewis Anwyl, Park, Llanfrothen, he inherited the Anwyl library, included in which was a copy of a Shakespeare ' Folio,' lately at Brogyntyn), and (2) Catherine (died 1700), who became the first wife of Peter
WYNN family Maesyneuadd, Llandecwyn , son of archdeacon Edmund Prys, and (2) MARGARET, the heiress of Maesyneuadd, who, by her husband, Griffith Lloyd, of Rhiwgoch, Merioneth, became the mother of another Maesyneuadd heiress, JANE LLOYD. It is by the marriage of Jane Lloyd with MORRIS WYNN AP WILLIAM WYNN of Glyn (Cywarch) - that the surname Wynn comes into the Maesyneuadd family, to continue in use thereafter for several generations
WYNN family Wynnstay, Library to collect and conserve other documents which were at risk when the army took over some of the buildings. At the same time he placed the Wynnstay MSS. in the National Library for safe keeping. He died in Wynnstay, Saturday 24 May 1944 and was buried in Llangedwyn. He and his wife had divorced in 1898; she died in 1911. They had a son and 2 daughters. His son, Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS-WYNN (1891
WYNN, EDWARD (1618 - 1669), chancellor of Bangor cathedral to have been re-instated before 1654, and by July 1658 he was in Anglesey as rector of Llan-geinwen and Llangaffo. He also secured the rectory of Llangybi and Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire, 29 May 1662, and held it until 1666, having added the rectory of Llanllechid to his preferments, 18 April 1665. He was a member of convocation, 1661-2, and in 1663 he became a canon of St Asaph and chancellor of
WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator Born c. 1669, son of Griffith Wynn, Mallwyd - he was 20 years old when he matriculated, 2 July 1689, at Oxford, as from Oriel College (he graduated in 1693). He is remembered as the translator into Welsh of a work by Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations of the state of man in this life and in that which is to come, which was published at Chester by Roger Adams under the title of Ystyriaethau ar gyflwr
WYNNE family Voelas, , by a deed of partition 8 February 1546, executed by him and his brother, Robert Wynne (in whose memory and that of his wife - they died in 1598 - there is a brass in Ysbyty Ifan church), obtained Voelas Robert receiving Cernioge as a royal grant. His heir, ROBERT WYNN, steward to queen Elizabeth for the land of the abbey of Aberconway, married Grace, a daughter of the house of Salusbury of Lleweni

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