Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, , JOHN VAUGHAN (1670? - 1721), was created (by William III, in 1695) baron of Fethard, Co. Tipperary, and viscount Lisburne, Co. Antrim, in the peerage of Ireland. He married (1), 18 August 1692, Malet, third daughter of the 2nd earl of Rochester, and (2) Elizabeth (died August 1716). By his first wife Malet, he was the father of JOHN VAUGHAN, the second viscount Lisburne, and by Elizabeth, the father
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, receiver of the lordships and manors of Brecon, Hay, Cantrecelly, Penkelli, and Alexanderston, offices which he held till 7 July 1546, when he vacated them in favour of his son Roger. He was sheriff of Brecknock in 1540-1 and was knighted in 1542. In October 1546 he was given the wardship of Joan and Elizabeth, sisters and co-heirs of Henry Myle of Newcourt. (Joan married his second son, Walter Vaughan
VAUGHAN, HILDA CAMPBELL (1892 - 1985), author bestseller and was adapted as a play for the London stage. Encouraged by the success of this venture, Vaughan co-wrote two plays with Laurier Lister, She Too Was Young (1938) and Forsaking All Other (not performed). During the Second World War Vaughan and her children moved to the United States for safety, and it was here that her eighth novel, The Fair Woman, was first published in 1942. It was later
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Dr Gwyn A. Williams present the Marxist angle. History became alive in the company of these two authors and the series in 1985 became a source of constant discussion. Wynford Vaughan-Thomas took pride in the history of Wales and defended the Welsh landscape in its beauty. He prepared a volume in co-operation with Alun Llewellyn, The Shell Guide to Wales (1969) as well as a presentation to an area
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet was permitted to retain his military rank when the regiment was disbanded. For some years after this he was engaged in various ventures in Caernarvonshire. He had already married Ellen Elizabeth Parry, one of the two co-heiresses of Love Parry of Madryn; his brother-in-law was Thomas Parry Jones (afterwards ' Jones-Parry ') of Llwyn Onn, Wrexham (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 224). By this marriage
WARNER, MARY WYNNE (1932 - 1998), mathematician , was appointed to the British Embassy in Beijing. Although Mary looked forward to undertaking her duties as a diplomat's wife she was also eager to continue her work in mathematics and was fortunate that Chang Su-chen, one of her co-researchers in Oxford, had returned to Beijing University and that they were able to meet to discuss their work. This was during the period of China's Great Leap Forward
WATKIN, EVAN (fl. circa 1801 - circa 1845), schoolmaster and writer . He wrote (1) A new translation of Homer's Iliad, with notes, by Blank Blank, Esq. (London, published by A. Robertson and Co. Printed by J. Cox, Aberystwyth, 1825); (2) A Key to the Greek Language (London, A. Robertson and Co.); (3) Greek Delectus for the Use of Schools; (4) Greek Grammar. He relinquished teaching in 1840 and edited, for John Cox, Aberystwyth, The Demetian Mirror, or Aberystwith
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Moreia, Llanelli from 1910 until his death. He was the editor of Seren Gomer from 1921 to 1930, and from 1933 until 1947 (with John Gwili Jenkins for a year, and then with David Hopkins as co-editors). He was a notable administrator - he was President of his cymanfa, President of the Union of Welsh Baptists, 1939-40, and Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1944-45. He contributed many articles
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited 1932-33), he was also much concerned with trying to breathe new life into south Wales during the Depression. In 1936, he was appointed one of eight directors of the new South Wales Trading Estate Co., Ltd. (which developed Treforest Trading Estate) and, in 1948, a director of Wales and Monmouthshire Estates Ltd. Among his schemes was one in 1937 for an arterial road from south to north Wales to
WILKINS family JOHN WILKINS (1713 - 1784) Economics and MoneyLaw, Born 15 November 1713, deputy-protonotary from 1759 (at least) till 1784; he married SYBIL JEFFREYS, niece and heiress of WALTER JEFFREYS (died 1746), a banker, of a Llywel family. Here lay the origins of 'Wilkins and Co.', or the 'Brecon Old Bank' (now merged in Lloyds Bank), whose notes circulated throughout the region (including north Glamorgan
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' 1753, his father took a lease of the Bersham furnace (Wrexham), which for over twenty years had been worked with coal but yielded poor results, and settled with his wife and younger children at Plas Grono, the ancient home of the Yale family on Erthig estate, John co-operated in the venture and went to live in Wrexham while retaining his Midland interests. Using ironstone from Llwyn Einion and coal
WILLIAMS family Bron Eryri, Castell Deudraeth, obituary notice in The Times, 21 August 1939. He died 20 August 1939. Another son of David Williams was Edmund Trevor Lloyd Wynne Williams (1859-1946), co-founder of the British Gramophone Company. Alice Williams ('Alys Meirion', 1863-1957) was a daughter of David Williams.

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