Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATCYN CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1630-1650), poet reconciliatory poems according to the conventional manner. One of his elegies was written on the death of colonel Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, killed in a duel with Thomas Cheadle on Lavan Sands, 19 February 1649/50. He also wrote a poem to a new house built by Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd in 1630. His poetry bears testimony to the persistence of bardic patronage in these shires.
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant Born 3 December 1871 at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, son of Evan and Mary Watkins. One of ten children, he was educated at the local elementary school, and for five terms at the High School, Oswestry, under Owen Owen. He then returned home to assist his father, but in 1896 was appointed first Clerk of the Central Welsh board. In 1904 he was appointed chief clerk to the Education Department of the
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Brazil. On 16 October 1939, he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Following completion of his basic training in Bodmin, he was sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit. On 17 May 1941, newly commissioned a second lieutenant into the Welch Regiment, he married (Margaret) Eirwen Evans, the elder daughter of John Rees Evans, a driver, and Kate Dilys (née Davies). They had a daughter, Mair
WATKINS, THOMAS ARWYN (1924 - 2003), Welsh scholar political and social views. Arwyn Watkins married Awel Gwalia Davies in 1955 and they had two sons and a daughter. He died in Swansea 4 August 2003 and was cremated in Margam Crematorium.
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr afterwards a weigher in the iron-works at Blaina, but returned (c. 1860) to Blaenavon to keep the 'Three Cranes' inn - his wife, Mary (Lewis), had died 1859 at Blaina - they had two daughters. He died 31 January 1889. A zealous eisteddfodic competitor, he was a founder-member of ' Cymreigyddion y Fenni ' (for which see under Carnhuanawc and under Bevan, Thomas, 1802 - 1882); he won many prizes and medals
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Thomas whose letters he published in Letters to Vernon Watkins (1957), he was at one with him only in his belief in the primacy of poetry. But not even when Dylan failed to turn up as best man on the occasion of his wedding in London in 1944 (to Gwendoline Mary Davies, of Harborne, Birmingham, a colleague of his in the Intelligence Service) would Vernon break the friendship. He had developed an
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer Helen Watts was born in Milford Haven on 7 December 1927, the daughter of Thomas Watts, a pharmacist, and his wife Winifred (née Morgan). She grew up in Haverfordwest and attended St Mary and St Anne School, Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire. There was music in the family: she started to play the piano at the age of seven, and her brother was a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral and later a choral
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet associated with the Welsh Republican movement - sustained by a handful of people like Gwilym Prys Davies, Cliff Bere, Huw Davies, Ithel Davies - and edited its bi-monthy newspaper. The movement failed to take popular root and Harri eventually moved on to Plaid as a realistic second best. Webb was as polemic in his literary views as he was in politics. He was contemptuous of Dylan Thomas thinking him
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited general manager of the newspapers and of Tudor Printing Works and, within three months, to a seat on the board, and later a director for life and joint-managing director with Sir William Davies (editor 1901-31) a position which he held for 32 years to 1955. In 1937, he was elected to the board of Allied (later Kemsley) Newspapers, owners of the Western Mail. Soon after his arrival in Cardiff, he had to
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 10 March 1841 at Cae-esgob, Llanberis, to John and Mary Wheldon. His parents moved early to Llwyncelyn, where his mother exercised spiritual graces and his father a vigorous independence. Educated at the British School (Capel Coch), he became a pupil teacher. He entered Bala C.M. College in 1857, graduated in the University of London, 1864, but rejected an offer of appointment in the Indian
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator Born 22 December 1879, son of the Rev. Thomas Jones Wheldon and Mary Elinor Powell, Bronygraig, Ffestiniog, Meironnydd. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, the High School, Oswestry, the University College of North Wales - he was the first secretary of the Students' Representative Council, 1899 - B.A. 1900, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B., 1903, M.A. in 1920). In 1906
WILDE, WILLIAM JAMES (1892 - 1969), boxer, world flyweight champion (1916-23) Born 12 May 1892 in Quakers Yard, Merthyr Tydfil, the son of James and Margaret Wilde. When he was four years old the family moved to 8 Station Road, Pontygwaith, Tylorstown, Rhondda, Glamorganshire. When still young he showed considerable toughness in defending himself in street fights and when he began work at the local colliery, he worked with Dai Davies, an old mountain fighter, who taught

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