Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist Nannau, near Dolgelley, for a period, wrote an elegy on the death of Annes, daughter of Rhys Fychan, Nannau - she was the wife of Hugh Nanney and grandmother of Rowland Vaughan, who also wrote englynion to her and to his grandfather on the occasion. When Ellen Nanney, Rowland Vaughan's mother, died in 1617, Rhisiart Phylip wrote an elegy in her memory. Amongst englynion by Rhisiart Phylip is one
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer remained there until 1759 when he became rector of Llandough, near Cow-bridge, and vicar of S. Hilary. In 1795 he was given a prebend in Llandaff cathedral. He died 1 June 1797, and was buried at Llandough. He had five sons, two of whom, John and Daniel, attained considerable eminence as poets and scholars. It was probably John Walters who persuaded Rhys Thomas, printer, to set up at Cowbridge the first
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Born 23 June 1878 at Pen-rhewllas farm, Mynydd Gelliwastad, Clydach, Glamorganshire, one of the 6 children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin. One of his brothers was William Rhys Watkin. He attended Pen-clun elementary school, near Rhydypandy, and then began work, aged 11, as a door-boy in a colliery. In 1893 he was apprenticed for 3 years to a builder, John Griffiths, in Pontardawe, where
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Born 10 December 1875 in Ynys-Tawe, Glamorganshire, one of the six children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin : the father was one of the Grove family of Swansea, and the mother one of the Rhys's of Tŷ'n y Waun, and the Morgans of Cwmcilie. Professor Morgan Watkin was one of his brothers. He left the school at Pen-clun, Rhydypandy, at 12, and went to work in the local colliery and then in
WATKINS, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister baptised in 1789 (op. cit., 658) and began to preach (1790). He conducted missions in Llangynidr, Tredegar, and as far as the outskirts of Rhymney. In 1793 he went to live at Carmarthen in order to help his friend M. J. Rhys with the Cylchgrawn Cynmraeg, and there is a somewhat doubtful story (see J. J. Evans, Morgan John Rhys, 33-4) that the two were compelled to flee the town; however, he returned home
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet great admiration for Rommel. After the war he was demobbed in Scotland where he remained for a period unsure of how to progress his life. He returned to Wales in 1946 and took a job in Carmarthen with Keidrych Rhys, the founder of Wales magazine and the Druid Press, and an early advocate of 'Anglo-Welsh' literature, as it was then styled. He had begun writing poetry during the war and had his first
WILFRE, bishop by Arnulf of Montgomery. The fact is that Wilfre could not hope to challenge the foreign Church successfully after the death of Rhys ap Tewdwr (1093), and he made his peace with Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury, who had previously excommunicated him; Anselm defended the rights of S. Davids against the Norman barons of South Wales. It is not clear whether this means that Wilfre had made his
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet of that parish there are records not only of the death of the poet on the last day of August 1580, but also of the christening of his son Richard in 1569, of the death of his daughter Jane in 1585, and of the death of ' Richard Llŷn, Miller ' in 1587. It may, therefore, be inferred that he lived at Oswestry, at least for the last eleven years of his life. Rhys Cain and Morris Kyffin were his pupils
WILLIAM ALAW (fl. c. 1535), poet Among his few extant poems there is an elegy on the death of Llywelyn ap Ieuan ap Hywel (died 1534) of Moelyrch recorded in the manuscript of cywyddau compiled at Llywelyn's home (Peniarth MS 103: Llyfr Moelyrch (17)). He was one of the poets who wrote an elegy on the death of Rhys Llwyd ab Einion Fychan of Gydros, and Angharad his wife (NLW MS 3051D (128)). He also addressed a soliciting poem to
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Descended from the same stock as Griffith of Penrhyn, the founder of the family was ROBIN AP GRIFFITH (died c.1445) Brother of the Gwilym ap Griffith who established the Penrhyn fortunes on a firm foundation. Robin may have been settled in Bodfeio as early as 1389. He married (1) Angharad, daughter of Rhys ap Griffith and (2) Lowry, daughter of Grono ap Ifan. He supported Owain Glyndwr in the
WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH RHYS- - see RHYS-WILLIAMS, BRANDON MEREDITH
WILLIAMS, CHARLES (1807? - 1877), principal of Jesus College, Oxford exhibition to John Rhys, ' on the spot,' after a brief interview (D.N.B., under Rhys, John). His very poor eyesight (not to mention his administrative duties) prevented his writing anything of great consequence, though he was a sound scholar. Yet he was interested in things Welsh; he was prominent at the Aberffraw eisteddfod of 1849, and in 1866 published a booklet, The Rules of the Welsh Initial Changes

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