Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, ARTHUR OWEN (Owen Rhos-comyl; 1863? - 1919), adventurer and author called him Owen. He himself adopted the name Arthur Owen Vaughan and formed his pseudonym ' Owen Rhoscomyl' from Rho[bert] Sco[urfield] Myl[ne] using the Middle English word for mill. When a boy, he ran away to sea (from Portmadoc), and became a wanderer. In the South African War, he led a troop of horse. the 14th Northumberland Fusiliers, and acquired note; and in the 1914 war he rose to be colonel
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist later sources give the names of his sons as John, Edward, Arthur, and Gabriel, and in addition to the three daughters named above a fourth daughter, Mary, is included, who married Peter Price, Cynllwyd, fourth son of Thomas Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. In accordance with family tradition Rowland Vaughan played a prominent part in the public life of the county and, like his father, who was sheriff
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes Born 6 July 1821 at Singleton Park, Swansea (now the nucleus of the Swansea University College buildings), eldest son of JOHN HENRY VIVIAN, a merchant engaged in copper smelting, Member of Parliament for Swansea, 1822-55, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, The Priory, Reigate. From Eton, H. H. Vivian went for a time (1838-40) to study metallurgy in Germany and France before entering
WADE-EVANS, ARTHUR WADE (1875 - 1964), clergyman and historian
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral T. Stanley, Cardiff. He assumed the name of Walker-Heneage-Vivian by Royal Licence in 1921. He was educated at Evelyn's and Stubbington, Hants. In 1886 he began a career in the Royal Navy, joining the battleship HMS Triumph as a midshipman under the command of Sir Algernon Heneage, a relative of his. He began to specialise in anti-submarine warfare when serving in HMS Royal Arthur in the Pacific
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist . Following in the footsteps of her academic predecessor at the UCSWM, Professor Millicent Mackenzie (1863-1942), Wheeler also stood unsuccessfully as a Labour candidate. Despite her defeat, Wheeler nearly doubled the Labour vote in the University of Wales, polling 309 votes against the victorious Liberal candidate, Thomas Arthur Lewis's 497 votes. Wheeler played a leading role in women's associational
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, younger sons of William (Wynn) Williams founded families of some note - ARTHUR, ancestor of the family of Williams of Meillionydd, and EDMUND WILLIAMS of Conway, father of John Williams, archbishop of York (Cal. Wynn Papers, 30; Penrhyn MSS. 63; Breeze, Kalendars, 51; L. and P. Henry VIII, viii, no. 149 (66 and 67); Williams, The parliamentary history of the principality of Wales, 58; Peniarth MS 289
WILLIAMS family Bron Eryri, Castell Deudraeth, 1841, Annie Louisa Loveday (died 16 June 1904), daughter of William Williams, of Peniarthucha, Meironnydd, barrister-at-law, and they had a large family; the eldest and the youngest sons are briefly noticed below. He died 15 December 1869, and was buried at Penrhyndeudraeth. David Williams was succeeded in the Deudraeth estate by his eldest son (Sir) ARTHUR OSMOND WILLIAMS (1849 - 1927), politician
WILLIAMS, ALICE HELENA ALEXANDRA (ALYS MEIRION; 1863 - 1957), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker Arthur Osmond Williams, first baronet, who followed their father as Liberal MP for Merioneth in 1900, was a vocal supporter of women's suffrage. Despite the family's radical outlook and belief in the importance of education, Alice received only a very limited education at home and as the youngest daughter was expected to remain single and become a companion to her mother, who settled in London soon
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR WYNN (1819 - 1886), physician and antiquary
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1832 - 1890), barrister and educationist Pembroke, council-member of the University Colleges of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and one of the two honorary secretaries of Aberystwyth College till he resigned in May 1885. For some time he edited The Law Magazine and The Commercial Compendium. His publications include The Desirableness of a University for Wales, 1853; Arthur Vaughan, a novel, 1856, a pamphlet on the Jamaica riots, 1866; and a biography
WILLIAMS, FRANCES (FANNY) (?1760 - c.1801), convict and Australian settler . There, she boarded the Prince of Wales, one of the eleven ships of the First Fleet - six of which transported convicts while the remainder carried the first European and African settlers to Australia. The fleet departed from Portsmouth on 13 May 1787 under the leadership of admiral Arthur Phillip (1738-1814. The journey was to end eight months later at Port Jackson (modern Sydney) rather than Botany

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