Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TYDECHO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint parishes of Mawddwy with allusions to a famous miracle, said to have been performed by the saint locally. All that can now be said about Tydecho with any certainty is that the distribution of the churches that still bear his name conforms to the tradition that he, with many companions, arrived on the Merioneth coast by sea and then proceeded inland to settle in the Mawddwy region and the whole area that
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, , 1st earl of Carbery. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, 4 February 1592 (B.A. March 1594, M.A. November 1597). He travelled widely on the Continent. In 1616 he was sheriff of Carmarthenshire. He married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of David ap Robert of Llangyndeyrn (now called Torcoed). In 1617 he purchased land from the Company of Adventurers to Newfoundland, and sent out settlers from
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington , wife of Robert Whitney, upon whose wedding Lewis Glyn Cothi composed an epithalamium. The heir, WATKIN VAUGHAN, maintained the tradition which made Hergest a resort for the greatest Welsh bards of the 15th century. For three generations Welsh culture found a home at Hergest. There were preserved the ' Red Book of Hergest,' which is now at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the ' White Book of Hergest
VAUGHAN family Llwydiarth, pew in the church of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, Montgomeryshire, later transferred to Wynnstay chapel. The same volume also contains a drawing of Llwydiarth (now demolished), taken from the duke of Beaufort's ' Progress ' in 1684 [see Dinely ].
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, dros Rich: Vnô Gorsygedol i ofyn 100 o gywydde D[afydd] ap G[wilym].' That some of the Vaughans collected manuscripts and books is an established fact. The following manuscripts, formerly at Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, but now in the National Library of Wales, were at Corsygedol - NLW MS 3034B, NLW MS 3038B, NLW MS 3039B, NLW MS 3047C ('Llyfr Coch Nannau'), NLW MS 3048D ('Llyfr Gwyn Corsygedol'), NLW MS
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, 1541-2. His wife was Anne, daughter of John Butler, and heiress of Dunraven and Pen-bre. The main line now removed from Bredwardine, and we find WALTER VAUGHAN, Sir Richard's heir, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1557, and living at Dunraven in 1584. Walter's second son was CHARLES VAUGHAN, ancestor of the Vaughans of Cwmgwili and Pen-y-banc, and his heir was THOMAS VAUGHAN, sheriff of Carmarthenshire
VAUGHAN family Courtfield, This family, which has given so many of its sons and daughters to the service of the Roman Catholic Church, has its home at Courtfield, in Welsh Bicknor, now in Herefordshire, but formerly in Monmouthshire. One of the Vaughan ancestors was WILLIAM AP JENKIN, alias Herbert, who was lord of Wern-ddu, Monmouthshire, in 1353; he was the ancestor also of the families of Proger of Wern-ddu, Jones
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest , he was also Archdeacon of South Middlesex and, for a time, Rector of Mandeville. Vaughan became Bishop of British Honduras (now Belize) in 1967. He threw himself into the life of his small diocese, which was still recovering from the devastating effects of hurricane Hattie in 1961. Vaughan was chairman of the National Council for Education in British Honduras, of the Christian Social Council and of
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect despite wartime restrictions, with some success. Another preoccupation was to ensure that the King Edward VII Hospital enjoyed adequate representation on the governing body of what was, by now, being called the Welsh National School of Medicine. After all 'the hospital is practically the School of Medicine'. Sadly, Bruce Vaughan did not live to see the Welsh National School of Medicine open as a
VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Millingchamp; on Millingchamp and the MSS. see his 'Life and Letters of the Venerable Benjamin Millingchamp' (now NLW MSS 13915-13916B) and H. Ethé, N.L.W. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts (1916). He was an authority on bookplates, helping to catalogue the Sir Evan Davies Jones collection and cataloguing for the National Library (1938) the Aneurin Williams collection. During his sojourn in Italy he had
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist Oxford, although there is no record that he graduated there. He married Jane, daughter of Edward Price, Tref Prysg, Llanuwchllyn, and according to Hugh Cadwaladr's elegy (NLW MS 9B), he was survived by three sons and three daughters: JOHN, who matriculated from Hart Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford, in 1635, aged 18, married Catherine, daughter of William Wynn of Glyn, Merioneth, and became sheriff
VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes Born 6 July 1821 at Singleton Park, Swansea (now the nucleus of the Swansea University College buildings), eldest son of JOHN HENRY VIVIAN, a merchant engaged in copper smelting, Member of Parliament for Swansea, 1822-55, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, The Priory, Reigate. From Eton, H. H. Vivian went for a time (1838-40) to study metallurgy in Germany and France before entering

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