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  • TREW, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1926), Wales and Swansea rugby centre three-quarter
  • TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary . It was a Welsh household; though Blanche was English she would have also been Welsh-speaking. Lewys Morgannwg states that she and her husband welcomed King Henry VII, his earls and possibly his queen to Troy House, near Monmouth in August 1502. They had two sons Charles and Thomas, both of whom were eventually knighted and served as sheriffs of Monmouthshire. (Sir William also had an illegitimate
  • TUCKER, JOSIAH (1712 - 1799), cleric and economist , and in 1739 rector of All Saints in Bristol. In his earlier days at Bristol, Tucker was bitterly opposed to the Methodists; he published an attack on them in 1739, to which John Wesley replied in 1742. But during the 1756-63 war his views changed. The diary of the Bristol Moravian congregation, under the date 3 August 1759, records that Howel Harris (who, with his militia-men, was in Bristol at the
  • TUDOR family Penmynydd, unwittingly entangled in a slightly compromising matter of state in the time of Elizabeth (his role in the affair was a very minor and humble kind), and it was said that David's brother, JOHN, was a dissident exile serving the queen's enemies. The gulf between this remote country family and their royal kinsmen had become so wide by 1600 that an official writing to Cecil seemed to have doubts as to the
  • TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) , daughter of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset. But the fact that he died at Carmarthen on 3 November 1456, suggests that like his brother Jasper Tudor he was intended for an administrative career in Wales. He was buried in the house of the Grey Friars at Carmarthen, his remains being translated at the Dissolution to S. Davids cathedral. His son, Henry, 2nd earl of Richmond and later the first Tudor king
  • TUDOR, OWEN DAVIES (1818 - 1887), legal writer Born 19 July 1818 at Lower Garth, Guilsfield, eldest son of Robert Owen Tudor, a captain in the Royal Montgomeryshire Militia, by his wife, Emma, daughter of John Lloyd Jones, Maesmawr, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, was admitted to the Middle Temple in April 1839, and was called to the Bar in June 1842. After practising in London for many years he was appointed joint
  • TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 5 October 1893 at Llwyn-y-gog, Staylittle, in the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, son of Thomas and Hannah Tudor. He was educated at Newtown grammar school, and he served with the Welsh Guards in France during World War I. As a result of deep experiences he had during the war, he felt a call to enter the ministry. He went to University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated with
  • TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet Sir Rhys ap Thomas (see op. cit., I, vii, xii, xiii, xiv; II, cxxxvii) who died in 1526. As the poet did not write an elegy upon him it is presumed that he, too, had died suddenly at Carmarthen and that he was buried in the Friars' graveyard, as is made clear in the laments written for him, in the habit of a Grey Friar - a habit assumed by him on his death-bed in the customary manner of those days
  • TURBERVILLE family Coity, , son of Gilbert I, succeeded. He was alive in 1202, but died c. 1207. GILBERT II, son of Payn II, was granted seisin of the lordship in 1207. He married Matilda (or Agnes), daughter of Morgan Gam of Afan, and acquired through her the manor of Landymôr, in Gower. He seems to have joined in the baronial opposition to John, as he was regranted seisin of his lands in 1217 as ' he had returned to faith
  • TURBERVILLE family Crickhowell, The genealogies are confused and contradictory; that given in Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, mixes them up with the Coity family in Glamorgan, and with some English branches. Sir John Edward Lloyd supports Theophilus Jones in the theory that there is no evidence for the statement that the Burghills preceded the Turbervilles at Crickhowell. ROBERT TURBERVILLE appears as a
  • TURNER, SHARON (1768 - 1847), solicitor and historian , in 1803, by publishing A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems. He was the first to discuss their antiquity, demonstrating the ignorance of the sceptics; see John Morris-Jones, Taliesin (= Cymm., xxviii). His letters to William Owen Pughe are in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS
  • TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry sixth child of Henry and Jane Turner who lived on a small landed estate called Low Mosshouse, Seathwaite, near Broughton-in-Furness, north Lancashire (he was christened 23 March 1766); his father was lessor of the Walmascar slate quarries. He was educated under the Rev. Robert Walker, 'the wonderful Robert Walker,' incumbent of Seathwaite (and grandfather of Mrs. Thomas Casson, Blaenddôl