Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORRIS, Sir RHYS HOPKIN (1888 - 1956), politician, stipendiary magistrate, first director of the Welsh Region B.B.C. and served throughout the war. He was twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the M.B.E. (Military Division) for action in which he was severely wounded and carried shrapnel in his leg for the rest of his life. On 11 September 1918 he married Gwladys Perrie Williams (born 24 November 1889) daughter of Elizabeth (author of Brethyn Cartref (1951), etc.) and W.H. Williams, Llanrwst, whom he met at
ROBERTS, EDWARD (1886 - 1975), minister (Bapt.) and college principal another degree in theology. He was ordained in 1915 as minister of Bethel English-language Baptist church in Whitchurch, Cardiff. Drs William Edwards (Cardiff) and W. B. Selbie (Mansfield) officiating. In 1918, while he was the minister of the church in Whitchurch, he married Gwladys Taylor, a member and the organist of the church. The wedding took place in Castle Street Welsh Baptist church in London
ROBERTS, GOMER MORGAN (1904 - 1993), minister (CM), historian, author and hymnwriter funeral. He maried at Bethany, Ammanford, 23 September 1930, Gwladys Jones, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Joseph Jones, Pantyffynnon. Gomer Roberts died 16 March 1993, aged 89, and was buried at Llandybïe.
ROBERTS, GWYNETH PARUL (1910 - 2007), doctor and missionary Nurse Gwladys M. Evans (1905-1963) from Aberbargoed who, like Dr Roberts, was gifted with extraordinary energy. They both prepared textbooks and translated questions and answers for each exam. They were assisted with the diagrams of the textbooks by the missionary Gwen Rees Roberts who arrived in Aizawl in December 1944. She firmly believed that the Welsh Mission should be handed over to the religious
RUSSON, Sir WILLIAM CLAYTON (1895 - 1968), industrialist Phostrogen company in Corwen. From 1960 onwards he served as an officer of the Order of St. John, becoming Commander in 1962 and Knight in 1968. He was also a Freeman of the City of London. In 1931 he married Gwladys Nellie, the daughter of Henry Markham of Dulwich and they made their home at Glanymawddach near Barmouth. He died on 16 April 1968 and was buried at Caerdeon church cemetery.
SAMUEL, HOWEL WALTER (1881 - 1953), judge and politician objectors' tribunal for some years. He was exceptionally competent and courageous, and had a great gift of friendship with people in all walks of life. His wife died in Swansea, 19 August 1939, and he married (2) in Llandrindod Wells, 24 April 1941, Lady Annie Gwladys, widow of Sir Henry Gregg and daughter of David Morlais Samuel, Swansea. As ' Morlaisa ' she was a member of the Gorsedd. He died 5 April
THOMAS, EVAN ROBERT (1891 - 1964), joiner and leader of the Welsh in Australia Exile' (Wales and the World) in 1960 and a vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1957. He married, 7 August 1915, Gwladys B. Davies, Maryborough. They had five children and lived in Ael-y-bryn, 77 Murray Street, Caulfield, Victoria. He died 6 September 1964 and his funeral service was held in the Welsh chapel, Latrobe Street. He was buried in the new Cheltenham cemetery.
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington The first of the Vaughans to reside here was THOMAS AP ROGER VAUGHAN, son of Roger Vaughan of Bredwardine, who was killed at Agincourt. His mother was Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam. He was, therefore, a full brother of Watkin Vaughan of Bredwardine, and Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower, and a uterine brother of Sir William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, and of Sir Richard Herbert. His wife was Ellen
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, Sir ROGER VAUGHAN, third son of ROGER VAUGHAN of Bredwardine - see Vaughan family of Bredwardine - by Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, was the first of the Vaughans to reside at Tretower. It is said that the residence was a gift to him from his half-brother William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, to whom the castle and manor of Tretower had descended by the marriage of his father, Sir William ap
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, wealth in the wars of Edward III. In the pedigree books, he is said to have married the heiress of Sir Walter Bredwardine, and to have taken up residence at Bredwardine, followed by his son, RHOSIER ' HEN,' who married a daughter of Sir Walter Devereux, and his grandson, ROGER VAUGHAN, who married Gwladys, daughter of Dafydd Gam, and fell with his father-in-law in the personal defence of Henry V on the
WILLIAMS, ALUN OGWEN (1904 - 1970), eisteddfod administrator and supporter (1942-52) and Leeswood (1952-63) schools. Although he retired to Rhyl (Glan Ogwen, Grange Road) in 1963, he continued to teach Welsh in Offa's Dyke Comprehensive School, Prestatyn until 1965, He married (1) Lil Evans (died 2 August 1968) in Llanbedr, Meironnydd in 1932 and they had one son, Euryn Ogwen Williams. He married (2) Gwladys Spencer Jones in Colwyn Bay, June 1970 and moved to Noddfa, Erw-wen
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN (1892 - 1963), University professor and Welsh scholar the composition of verses for the harp. In Barry in 1920 he won for his lyric poem 'Gwladys Ddu' and his sonnet 'Llanilltud Fawr'. Indeed, during this period he was quickly becoming an important poet and among his papers there was a sizeable volume of poems in his wife's handwriting. But he gave up writing poetry to concentrate on his research on Iolo and his work following his appointment in 1921

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