Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, HILDA CAMPBELL (1892 - 1985), author parents' house, The Castle, Builth Wells, until the outbreak of World War One, when she worked for the Red Cross and was organizing secretary of the Women's Land Army in Breconshire and Radnorshire. After the war she moved to London and began studies at Bedford College, where she met her future husband, the writer Charles Morgan; they were married in London in 1923. They had a daughter, Elizabeth
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge , 154-7), but he virtually retired from public life until the Restoration. It is said that he helped the Parliamentarians to capture Aberystwyth castle in 1646 (Cambrian Register, i, 166). That cannot be proved. He was listed among the 'delinquents' on 29 June 1648. His own testimony in 1660 was that he was fined and his house ' totally plundered to his greate losse ' (S. P. Dom., Charles II, 29/8
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales Frenchmen. He was appointed treasurer of the king's chamber and master of the king's jewels, 29 June 1465. Throughout the summer of 1467 he was in Burgundy in connection with arrangements for the marriage of duke Charles and the princess Margaret, Edward IV's sister, and was there with the bishop of Salisbury to receive her when she went over to be married in June 1468. He was commissioned to communicate
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM HUBERT (1894 - 1959), railway guard and chairman of the Welsh Land Settlement Society Born 21 March 1894, son of Henry Charles and Catherine Vaughan, Rogerstone, Monmouthshire. He was educated at the Eastern School, Port Talbot, and, like his father and two brothers, was employed on the railway, where he served for 51 years, 34 of them as a guard. He became a well respected figure who undertook a remarkable variety of public voluntary work. He was a member of Port Talbot borough
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II when he was given charge of the children, of whom there were three, Richard, Lucy, and Justus. Roch castle was garrisoned for the king by Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, in 1643. It was taken by Rowland Laugharne after his defeat of the Royalists at Pill (in Milford Haven) in February 1644, but again seized for the king in the following June by Sir Charles Gerard. William Walter alleged that
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited Born 14 November 1884, the eldest son of Charles and Hannah Webber of Barry, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Barry County School and Cardiff Science and Art School. His first job was as a clerk in the general manager's office of the Barry Railway from where, in 1908 at the age of 24, he was one of 300 applicants for the post of private secretary in Fleet Street to George Riddell (later Baron
WILKINS, CHARLES (Catwg; 1830 - 1913), writer Born at Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, 1830, son of William Wilkins, who left Stonehouse to settle in Merthyr Tydfil as a bookseller. In 1851, William Wilkins became postmaster of Merthyr Tydfil, and his son Charles served him as a clerk. Twenty years later the son succeeded the father as postmaster and retired pensioned in 1898, after forty-six years service in all. Charles Wilkins was librarian
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers served at Dover and Penzance. Next, being moved by the illiteracy of the masses, he started a school at Llanegryn, although he himself was unable to read - he used to get someone to help him to prepare for the next session of his school. Thomas Charles heard about him, and insisted on seeing him; he arranged for him to get a quarter's schooling, and then appointed him a paid teacher (at £3 a year
WILLIAMES, RICE PRYCE BUCKLEY (1802 - 1871), official in the Board of Control, London, and principal founder of The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine Born 1802, eldest son of John Buckley Williames, Pennant, Berriw, Montgomeryshire (high sheriff of Montgomeryshire, 1820), and Catherine, daughter and heiress of Rice Pryce, Glyncogan. He was educated at Shrewsbury school. Through the influence of Charles W. Williams Wynn he was given a post in the Board of Control, London, then the government department responsible for the affairs of India; this
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Civil War and Commonwealth period he followed, in general, the lead given by his uncle. He was sheriff of Caernarvonshire in 1651 and 1662. He was created baronet by Cromwell in 1658 and by Charles II in 1661. He died in 1663 (Breeze, Kalendars, 55, 56; articles Bodwrda, and Puw family of Penrhyn Creuddyn; Cal. Wynn Papers, no. 1695; G.E.C., Complete Baronetage, iii, 6, 212). Sir ROBERT WILLIAMS 2nd
WILLIAMS family Gwernyfed, - Sir HENRY WILLIAMS (died 1652), who was created a baronet in 1644, and who welcomed Charles I to Gwernyfed when the latter visited Wales after the battle of Naseby (1645). As none of his male descendants merit attention here, it is unnecessary to trace the lineage further; Burke claims that the baronetcy continued until 1798, but Banks quotes contemporary evidence to show that it had lapsed before
WILLIAMS, ALBERT CLIFFORD (1905 - 1987), Labour politician at 'Brodawel', Abertillery Road, Blaina. He married in 1930 Beatrice Ann, the daughter of Charles Garbett, and they had one daughter. He died in 1987.

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