Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Born in 1534/5, Katheryn was the daughter of Tudur ap Robert Vychan of Berain, Denbighshire, by his wife Jane, daughter of Sir Roland Velville (died 1527), a natural son of Henry VII, whom Henry made constable of Beaumaris castle. Katheryn, who is said to have been a ward of queen Elizabeth, ultimately acquired by mortgage Penmynydd in Anglesey. She was married four times: (1) to JOHN SALUSBURY
KENYON family Gredington, Peel Hall, Robert Eddowes of Eagle Hall, Cheshire, by Anne, daughter and heiress of the Rev. Richard Hilton (died 1706) of Gredington, which he purchased from Sir John Hanmer on 9 May 1678. Hilton was vicar of Hanmer, 1662-1706. It would seem that the Kenyon's moved to Gredington soon after the vicar's death in 1706. LLOYD KENYON II (1732 - 1802) Second son of the above, was born at Gredington, 5 October 1732
KILVERT, ROBERT FRANCIS (1840 - 1879), cleric and diarist Born 3 December 1840 at Hardenhuish, near Chippenham, where his father (Robert) was parson; graduated from Wadham College, Oxford, in 1862 (M.A. 1866). After serving as curate to his father, he became curate at Clyro (Radnorshire) in 1864, remaining there till 1876, when he became vicar of S. Harmon's (Radnorshire). In 1877, he was appointed vicar of Bredwardine, Herefordshire, where he died 23
KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (1788 - 1851), cleric and traveller Born at Abergavenny, son of Robert Morgan Kinsey, solicitor and banker at that town, and his wife Caroline Hannah, daughter of Sir James Harington, Bt. He was educated at Oxford (matriculated 28 November 1805, scholar of Trinity College, B.A. 1809, M.A. 1813, B.D. 1822, Fellow of his college 1815, dean 1822, vice-president 1823, bursar 1824). In 1827 he made a tour in Portugal, publishing next
KNIGHT, HENRY HEY (1795 - 1857), cleric and antiquary Born at Tewkesbury (christened 22 October 1795), third son of ROBERT KNIGHT (1764? - 1819), vicar of Tewkesbury (and also of Bayton, Worcestershire), from 1792 to 1818. His mother, Harriett Mercy Knight (1769? - 1846), was a grand-daughter of the famous Dissenting divine, Philip Doddridge. There were at least four sons and four daughters of the two marriages, H. H. Knight being the eldest son of
KOTSCHNIG, ELINED PRYS (1895 - 1983), psychoanalyst and pacifist commitment to the cause of unemployed postgraduate students and to scholars dismissed following the Nazi Reich's law to 'restore' the professional civil service in April 1933 deepened, Elined changed direction in the years following her marriage. By the early 1930s, she was working in the field of psychoanalysis with Tina Keller-Jenny (1887-1985), a pupil of Toni Wolff (1888-1953) and Carl Gustav Jung
KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms It is believed that he was 'my brother Edward Kyffyn preacher' who is named in, and proved, the will of Morris Kyffin; if so, he was a son of Thomas Kyffin of Oswestry and Catherine the younger daughter of Robert Lloyd of Hartsheath, Flintshire. Very little is known about his career. He was born at Oswestry. He went to Jesus College, Cambridge, but he does not appear to have graduated. He was
LAUGHARNE, ROWLAND (d. 1676?), Parliamentary major-general The son of John Laugharne of S. Brides, Pembrokeshire, and his wife, Janet, daughter of Sir Hugh Owen of Orielton in that county. In his youth he was page to Robert Devereux, third earl of Essex, and he may have accompanied him on military service in the Low Countries. When the Civil War broke out in August 1642, some of the leading gentry in south Pembrokeshire, supported by merchants who had
LEWES, EVELYN ANNA (c. 1873 - 1961), author in Wales, and continued to do so until about 1940. Her work appeared in countless magazines including The Gentleman's Magazine, c. 1905, The Field and the Queen, c. 1905-14, The Bookman, Fishing Gazette, 1923-31, T.P.'s and Cassell's Weekly, 1927, Every woman's world (Toronto), Western Home monthly (Winnipeg), etc.; and in The Western Mail, The Cambrian News and other newspapers. Among her books
LEWIS, DAVID (1760 - 1850), cleric Born in 1760 at Derwen Groes, Abergwili, Carmarthenshire, son of David Lewis. He was educated at Llanpumpsaint and at the Presbyterian Academy, Carmarthen, under Robert Gentleman. He matriculated at Oxford University from Jesus College in June 1782, but does not appear to have graduated. He served as schoolmaster and curate at Oswestry, being ordained priest in May 1785; in January 1787 he was
LEWIS, DAVID JOHN (Lewis Tymbl; 1879 - 1947), Congl. minister, popular preacher and lecturer , 1884; T.E. Nicholas was one of his contemporaries there. The headmaster at the time was John Davies from Felin-foel, a strict disciplinarian, who had succeeded Robert Bryan in 1883. According to that article, Bryan had been headmaster at Whitland but that was merely the postal address of the school at Hermon. The Sunday school at Brynmyrnach was more important to him in his development as a preacher

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