Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, portrait believed to be of this John Trevor still hangs at Trevalun. RICHARD TREVOR (died 1614), of Doctors' Commons (18 February 1598), a judge of admiralty, was probably John Trevor's brother (Coote, Civilians, 65, McClure, Letters of J. Chamberlain, i, 544-5). RICHARD TREVOR (1558 - 1638), soldier, politician, and Irish administrator Military Politics, Government and Political Movements Public and
TREVOR family Brynkynallt, known for persistent feuds with its neighbours, the Kyffin s, and later the Myddelton 's, the latter lasting till the early 18th century (Wynn, The history of the Gwydir family, 1927 ed., 41-5; Edwards, Star Chamber Proceedings, 68; Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accts., 1605-66, 14 and n.; Cust, Chronicles of Erthig, i, 51, 57). The founder of the family fortunes was Sir EDWARD TREVOR (died 1642) Military
TRUEMAN, Sir ARTHUR ELIJAH (1894 - 1956), Professor of geology the popularization of science and wrote widely on the geology and scenery of England and Wales (1938, 1949). He married Florence Kate Offler in 1920 and they had one son, Dr. E.R. Trueman, a distinguished zoologist. He died 5 January 1956.
TUDOR, JASPER (c. 1431 - 1495), earl of Pembroke Bosworth. Subsequently, among other honours, he had bestowed on him the title of duke of Bedford and became justiciar of South Wales. In 1486, Henry gave him the lordship of Glamorgan. This was confirmed to him in 1488, and he held it till his death. Judging from the many scattered references to him during the next decade, he spent his declining years as an honoured elder statesman. Between 1483-5 he
TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Born 5 October 1893 at Llwyn-y-gog, Staylittle, in the parish of Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire, son of Thomas and Hannah Tudor. He was educated at Newtown grammar school, and he served with the Welsh Guards in France during World War I. As a result of deep experiences he had during the war, he felt a call to enter the ministry. He went to University College, Aberystwyth (where he graduated with
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet to the battle of Blackheath (1497) (see op. cit., I, iv, 5; vii, 56), while his editor thought he saw a reference to the battle of Bosworth (1485) in his cywydd to Sir William Gruffudd the Chamberlain (op. cit., I, xxxiii, 31-4, 49), from which he deduced that the poet must have started writing shortly before that as, according to the established custom of the bards, his earliest cywyddau would
TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player season. He also played hockey and squash for Wales and, one of the founders of the Cardiff Squash Rackets Club, won the squash rackets championship of South Wales. Maurice Turnbull served in the Welsh Guards in the Second World War. A major in the First Battalion he was killed near the village of Montchamp on 5 August 1944 whilst leading a small group during a German counter-attack following the D-Day
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army was active in suppressing the various risings in North Wales on behalf of king Charles I, and was present at the skirmish on Y Dalar Hir, Llandygai, 5 June 1648, where Sir John Owen of Clenennau was overcome and captured. He was also a member of the High Court of Justice formed for the trial of king Charles, as well as of several commissions appointed by Parliament to deal with sequestrations, etc
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist University of Wales awarded him an honorary doctorate in Divinity in 1986, but he did not live to receive it. Lewis Valentine died in a nursing home in Llandrillo-yn-Rhos on 5 March 1986.
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove and a younger brother of John Vaughan, 1st earl of Carbery. He settled at Derwydd. He was sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1620 and Member of Parliament for the county in 1621-9 and 1640. He was knighted at Oxford 1 January 1643, and disabled from sitting in the Commons 5 February 1644. Accompanying Carbery into Pembrokeshire in 1643 he was given command of the
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, , 5 June 1561. He was Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire, 1553-62, when he was succeeded by his son Rowland Vaughan, and again in 1571. In the meantime he had represented the borough of Brecon, 1562-7. He died before 31 March 1585 when administration of his estate was granted. He left several children by his wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. The eldest, Watkin, died
VAUGHAN family Pant Glas, the Civil War in the assault on Hopton castle, Shropshire, in the month of February 1644; but the author of The Garrisons of Shropshire, 1642-8, claims that the ' Captain Vaughan ' slain at Hopton was one of the unrelated Vaughans of Shropshire. At any rate, Henry Vaughan was 'deceased' before February 1654/5, when his eldest son became a member of Gray's Inn; his widow, Margaret, daughter of Bonham

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