Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1747 - 1812), Evangelical cleric Judges being omitted altogether. This caused much concern to Thomas Charles (of Bala) and the other sponsors of this issue of the Welsh Bible, but the situation was saved by the energy and scholarship of William Williams. He died 13 October 1812; there is a mural commemorative tablet in Waterbeach church.
WILLIAMSON, EDWARD WILLIAM (1892 - 1953), Bishop of Swansea and Brecon . Chaplain to the Bishop of Llandaff 1929-31; Examining Chaplain 1931-39. He was canon of Caerau in Llandaff Cathedral 1930-37 and appointed Chancellor 1937-39. He was consecrated Bishop of Swansea and Brecon in Bangor cathedral 30th November by the Archbishop of Wales (Charles Green). Though he was not a Welshman, he loved Wales, its church and people. When he was invited early in 1953 to become one of
WILLIS, ALBERT CHARLES (1876 - 1954), president of the Australian Labour Party
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter , Llanbadarn-fawr, Cardiganshire. There were five children, John (1680), Maria (1681), Margaretta (1683), Elizabeth (1684), and Ursula (1687). Elizabeth became the second wife of Sir John Pratt (1657 - 1725) and mother of Charles (1714 - 1794), lord Camden (1765), later (1786) earl Camden, lord chancellor. Richard, the painter, was therefore, on the paternal side, first cousin to lord Camden. JOHN WILSON
WINTER, CHARLES (1700 - 1773), Arminian Baptist minister Caernarvon (1829), in a house called Bron'r-hendre in Henwalia, and sought a living by keeping school, journalism, and literary pot - boiling. He became quite a figure in the town in the 'thirties, as a 'Whig' politician, championing the Reform Bill and forwarding the parliamentary interests of Sir Charles Paget; and he was one of the founders of the Carnarvon Herald (1831), later known as the Carnarvon
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician president of the 1940 Bridgend national eisteddfod. Wyndham-Quin published a number of works including The Yeomanry Cavalry of Gloucester and Monmouth (1898), Sir Charles Tyler, G.C.B., Admiral of the White (1912), The Foxhound in county Limerick (1919) and A history of Dunraven Castle (1926). He married 7 July 1885 Lady Eva Constance Aline Bourke, daughter of the 6th Earl of Mayo. She died 19 January
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author with another Welshman, Henry Morton Stanley, then the correspondent of the New York Herald and wrote some of his copy for him. In 1869, Lord Adare, as he then was, married Florence Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Charles Lennox Kerr, and visited America for the first time. He constantly returned to that country and even bought a ranch in Colorado. His insatiable curiosity led him to investigate many
WYNN family Berth-ddu, Bodysgallen, , in 1621, prince Charles put forward his name for the vacant see of S. Davids. Gwynn seems to have been lukewarm, and Laud was appointed instead; Williams, elected to Lincoln the same year, consoled his old tutor with the archdeaconry of Huntingdon and the vicarage of Buckden (both in his diocese), which Laud had vacated, and a prebendal stall in Lincoln cathedral (1622). A suggestion that he should
WYNN family Gwydir, younger brother of John (c. 1584 - 1614), succeeded as second baronet in 1627. Educated at Lincoln's Inn, he entered the Lord Chamberlain's service, 1608, was groom of the bedchamber to Charles, prince of Wales, 1617-25, and accompanied him on his voyage to Spain, 1623. Appointed treasurer to queen Henrietta Maria, 1625, he was groom of the bedchamber to the king and queen in 1629. He was Member of
WYNN family Rûg, Boduan, Bodfean, property under a will of 1780; it remained in Vaughan hands until the death, in 1859, of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan, 3rd baronet, who bequeathed it to the third son of Spencer Bulkeley, 3rd baron Newborough, i.e. to the Hon. CHARLES HENRY WYNN (born 22 April 1847; died 14 February 1911). C. H. Wynn was succeeded by his son, who ceased to live at Rûg c. 1951, but continued at the old family home, Boduan
WYNN family Wynnstay, houses in the Wrexham district. But how much practical help he gave the Stuarts is still a secret. It is alleged that he wrote to prince Charles, promising to raise his part of the country on the prince's behalf and that he continued to correspond with him after the failure of the '45; however, nothing was proved against him and the government brought no accusation against him. On the other hand, there
WYNNE family Voelas, , John Griffith (above), Cefn Amwlch also. Jane Wynne married (28 December 1778) the hon. CHARLES FINCH (1752 - 1819), second son of Heneage, 3rd earl of Aylesford (Jane Wynne's sister, Elizabeth, married Thomas Assheton Smith of Vaenol). The eldest son (and heir) of the Wynne-Finch marriage was CHARLES WYNNE FINCH, afterwards called CHARLES WYNNE GRIFFITH WYNNE (1780 - 1865), who built the present

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