Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM HENRY (1860 - 1932), journalist and local historian , constitute his most valuable contribution to local history. He was appointed, c. 1920, librarian and curator of the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea; he was also regarded as the official archivist of the town of Swansea. He died 17 March 1932 at his home in Sketty Road, Swansea.
JONES, WILLIAM JENKYN (1852 - 1925) Brittany, Calvinistic Methodist missionary Born 29 March 1852 at New Quay, Cardiganshire. He was educated at Bangor Normal College and at University College, Aberystwyth, and became a schoolmaster at Ystradgynlais. Ordained (1882) for the Brittany mission-field, he worked for forty years from the Quimper centre, the capital of Finisterre and a Roman Catholic stronghold; facing insuperable odds he exerted great influence, distributing the
JONES-DAVIES, THOMAS ELLIS (1906 - 1960), doctor and international rugby player Born 4 March 1906, elder son of Henry and Winifred Anna Jones-Davies, Bremenda, Llanarthne, Carmarthenshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, St. George's School, Harpenden, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St. George's Hospital, London. He was awarded the degrees of M.A. and M.D. (Cantab.), and F.R.C.P. and D.P.H. (London). After serving for some time as an
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) grandfather (18 March 1577/1578) became the ward of the earl of Leicester, who, however, gave his consent to the completion of the marriage agreement. Maurice Wynn died in August 1580. There were two children of Katheryn's third marriage, (a) Edward and (b) Jane. (4) Sometime in 1583, to Edward Thelwall, son of Simon Thelwall of Plâs-y-ward, Denbighshire. At the same time a child marriage was arranged
KELSEY, ALFRED JOHN (1929 - 1992), association football player to play at the Halfway Park, Winch Wen, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his first club; Kelsey died before the match took place, but Arsenal honoured their commitment and came to Swansea on 31 July 1993 to fulfil the fixture. Kelsey married Myrtle Elsie Hodgetts, (also known as Hudson) (1929-1987), at Swansea Registry Office on 22 March 1954. They met at a dance in Islington Town Hall in 1951
KEMEYS family Cefn Mabli, sheriff of Glamorgan for the period 18-24 March 1689. He was also governor of Cardiff castle in 1702. He died December 1702. His son, again named CHARLES KEMEYS, born 23 November 1688, became the 4th baronet on his father's death. He was sheriff of Glamorgan, 1712-13, M.P. for Monmouthshire, 1713-15, and M.P. for Glamorgan, 1716-34. He died 29 January 1735, without issue, and the baronetcy became
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, co-defendant in the suit before the Great Sessions at Wrexham (18 March 1788), in which the 'New' Meeting maintained against the 'Old' its right to use the graveyard devised by Daniel Lloyd (died 1655) to Morgan Llwyd's congregation; another son, SAMUEL KENRICK, a Unitarian and an accomplished linguist who travelled widely (as a tutor) and met Rousseau and Voltaire in France, joined his brother
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, Lloyd fought on the side of Parliament, and letters to and from him in 1644 have survived. Sometime, also, during the reign of Charles II, he was imprisoned with Philip Henry on account of his nonconformity. LLOYD KENYON (1696 - 1773) Eldest son of Thomas and Catherine Kenyon was born 17 March 1696 and educated at S. John's College Cambridge. He married, November 1730 Jane, daughter and coheiress of
KILVERT, ROBERT FRANCIS (1840 - 1879), cleric and diarist September 1879. Kilvert's fame rests upon the diary which he began in January 1870 and kept up till March 1879; parts of this (June 1876-December 1877) have been lost, but considerable selections of the remainder, edited by William Plomer, were published in 3 volumes in 1938-40. Kilvert's observations on nature and on social life in the Wye valley are of the highest interest and value.
KNIBB, MARY (c.1798 - 1866), abolitionist and social reformer Mary Knibb was born around the year 1798 in the parish of Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Her parents, whose surname was Watkins, died when she was young and little is known of her early life though it is safe to assume that she stayed in Wales as it was reported that Mary was a Welsh speaker. Mary moved to Bristol before March 1823, where she became a member of Broadmead Baptist church. She taught in
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist September 1922 asking for donations of clothes. In March 1923, after returning from Romania, an account of Elined's experiences appeared in Yr Efrydydd, the publication of the Student Christian Movement. It seems that her voice for the cause of peace internationally following this experience led to her selection as one of the four entrusted with carrying a petition organized by the Welsh League of Nations
LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, WALTER, the first baron (died 1085), hailed from Lassy in Normandy, and ranked among the pioneers of Norman settlement in the southern March of Wales. After the Welsh estates had been held successively by his sons, ROGER (deprived as a rebel in 1094) and HUGH I (died without direct heirs in 1121), they passed eventually to a grandson GILBERT (fl. 1150), father of HUGH II (died 1186), who was a

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