Dictionary of Welsh Biography

UNGOED-THOMAS, (ARWYN) LYNN (1904 - 1972), Labour politician duration of World War Two, rising to the rank of major. He was the Labour MP for the Llandaff and Barry constituency, 1945-50, (a division which was then abolished by the boundary commissioners), contested Carmarthenshire unsuccessfully in 1950, and sat for Leicester North-West from a by-election in 1950 until 1962. Ungoed-Thomas became a member of the General Council of the Bar in 1946 and was later the
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist Ruth van Heyningen was born on 26 October 1917 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the only child of Alan Treverton Jones (1877-1924), a ship-owner, and his wife Mildred (née Garrod Thomas, 1882-1970). Her mother was a daughter of Sir Abraham Garrod Thomas (1853-1931), originally from Aberaeron, a doctor at the Gwent Royal Hospital and Liberal MP for South Monmouthshire (1917-18). Her father died when she
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect school to a total sum of £90,000 (equivalent to some £5m today) by funding an Institute of Preventive Medicine on the Newport Road site, to the annoyance of the principal of University College, Cardiff who felt that Bruce Vaughan was, once again, compromising the College's wider development priorities. Writing to David Davies MP he grumbled, rather uncharitably: 'We are in the hands of one whose
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure . His career reached its climax when the channel produced a series of programmes on the history of Wales under the title, When was Wales? which invited an academic historian of great talent, Professor Gwyn Alf Williams and Vaughan-Thomas to discuss and argue on the history of the Welsh people from two different standpoints. Vaughan-Thomas defended the traditional, liberal approach to the saga, while
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes of the chief promoters of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Truro, Cornwall, from 1852-7, Glamorgan 1857-85, and Swansea 1885-93. He was created a baronet, 13 May 1882, and on 9 June 1893, became the first baron Swansea. He was the author of Notes of a Tour in America, 1878. He died at Singleton Park, 28 November 1894, and was buried in Sketty churchyard.
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure Holywell urban district council and by 1919 he was on the county council, the main field of his public activity. He was created an alderman of the county council in 1931 and was a most effecive chairman, 1938-40. In 1920 he became J.P. and in 1945 vice-chairman of the court of Quarter Sessions. He was High Sheriff for Flintshire in 1942-43 and in 1945 he was appointed a C.B.E. Always a staunch Liberal
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge by the Middle Temple on 9 June 1948. In 1970, he was made a Bencher and in 1998 he was the Autumn Reader. At that time, he was a supporter of the Liberal Party and spoke at public meetings in support of the candidacy of Roderic Bowen for the constituency of Cardigan in the 1951 general election and subsequently, but he refused an approach by members of the Liberal Party who offered him a safe seat
WATKINS, TUDOR ELWYN (Baron Watkins of Glantawe), (1903 - 1983), Labour politician , 1940-74. He served as Labour MP for the Brecon and Radnor constituency from the general election of 1945 until his retirement in 1970. He was known locally as the man who always put the needs of his constituency before party politics. He was one of the group of five Labour MPs who gave constant support to the tenacious Parliament for Wales campaign of the early 1950s, contrary to the directive of the
WEST, DANIEL GRANVILLE (Baron Granville-West of Pontypool), (1904 - 1984), Labour politician member of the Abercarn UDC, 1934-38, and the Monmouthshire CC, 1938-47. He was elected Labour MP for the Pontypool division in a by-election in July 1946, continuing to serve until he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Granville-West of Pontypool in 1958. His successor as Labour MP for Pontypool was Leo Abse. West served as president of the South Wales and Monmouthshire branch of the Probation
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
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister . In Bangor he promoted the new Tabernacl building. He was a member of the Caernarvonshire L.E.A., and took a responsible interest in the University College of North Wales. A Liberal in politics, he took a prominent part in the 1885 (Merioneth) election, and subsequently supported T. E. Ellis. At Bangor he opposed the war in South Africa. In the Calvinistic Methodist Church, he was moderator of the
WILLIAMS family Bron Eryri, Castell Deudraeth, DAVID WILLIAMS (Dewi Heli; 1799 - 1869), solicitor and Liberal Member of Parliament for Merioneth Law Politics, Government and Political Movements Born 30 June 1799 at Saethon in the parish of Llanfihangel-Bachellaeth, Caernarfonshire, son of David Williams and Margaret his wife. He was articled to his brother John Williams (high sheriff of Merioneth, 1841-2), then a solicitor at Llanfyllin

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