Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander of Thomas Owen (a judge of Common Pleas and a member of the Council at Ludlow), and sister of Sir Roger Owen, who was removed from the Salop bench in 1614 for his part in the Puritan opposition in James I's parliaments. Thomas was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, 1615, and Lincolns Inn, 1616, and in 1629 married Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert Napier of Luton and sister-in-law of Sir Thomas
NAISH, JOHN (1923 - 1963), author and playwright assisted passage to Australia. On 4 May 1950 he boarded the 'Otranto' bound for Queensland. Once there, he began working in labour intensive jobs while writing. Primarily he was employed in the brutal job of sugar cane cutting in tropical north Queensland, an experience which inspired his first novel The Cruel Field and related plays. In late February 1956, having fulfilled the residential obligations of
NANNEY family Nannau, story of Nannau is somewhat uneventful until the days of colonel HUGH NANNEY, Member of Parliament for Merioneth (1695-1701) and his termagant wife Catherine, one of the daughters of Cors-y-gedol (she died in 1733). He was the last Nanney to hold the estate, for his heiress Janet married Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt in 1719, great-grandson to the antiquary Robert Vaughan; the antiquary himself had
NANNEY, RICHARD (1691 - 1767), Evangelical cleric teacher of Robert Jones of Rhos-lan, it is natural enough to find the latter's eloquent tribute to Nanney in Drych yr Amseroedd). He drank pretty deeply of the spirit of the Methodist Revival - though he is not included among the Methodist clergymen like Griffiths of Nevern and Jones of Llan-gan - and accounts are given of crowds of people listening to him preach at Clynnog, many coming from adjoining
NASH, JOHN (1752 - 1835), architect Born at Cardigan. He was apprenticed to Sir Robert Taylor and afterwards settled near Carmarthen. He was persuaded by a number of friends to start in business as an architect; this he did, becoming well-known almost at once. He designed the Cardiganshire county gaol at Cardigan, and the west front and the chapterhouse in S. Davids cathedral. He moved to London and became world-famous for his work
NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE (1897 - 1955), archaeologist excavation-reports, thus, are his earliest - on Jenkins's Field and the Prysg Field, Caerleon, and on the baths, etc., and the defences of Caerwent. In connexion with Caerwent, he excavated at the Late Iron Age hillfort at Llanmelin and at Sudbrook promontory fort on the Severn coast; later, he re-excavated the Roman villa at Llantwit Major, and at the time of his death was engaged in an important series
NELSON, ROBERT (1656 - 1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist Born in London 22 June 1656, son of John Nelson, a wealthy Turkey merchant, and his wife Delicia, daughter of Lewis Roberts the writer on commerce. Robert Nelson was, therefore half Welsh, and it was appropriate that one of his works, A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England (1704 - reprinted at least thirty-six times), should have been translated into Welsh in 1712 by
NENNIUS (fl. c. A.D. 800), monk and antiquary study of the Arthurian Legend and early Celtic literature and learning in general. An English translation was published by A. W. Wade-Evans (1938); also text and translation by John Morris, Historia Brittonum and the Welsh Annals (1980). Important discussions by David N. Dumville are found in his Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages (1990) and contrast P. J. C. Field in Studia
NEPEAN, MARY EDITH (1876 - 1960), novelist Born at LlandudnoLlandudno, Caernarfonshire in 1876, daughter of John Bellis, a Caernarfonshire county councillor, and Mary, his wife. She was educated at home, studying art with Robert Fowler, and later showed her work at a number of exhibitions. She married in 1899 Molyneux Edward Nepean, of a family of high-ranking civil servants, and resided in England, moving in literary circles in London
NEST (fl. 1120), princess of Deheubarth (almost in her husband's presence) by her kinsman, Owain ap Cadwgan, in 1109, has earned her notoriety as the 'Helen of Wales.' Her numerous offspring included Robert Fitz-Stephen and Henry ' filius regis ' - her child by king Henry I. The date of her death is unknown, but she lived until well after 1136. There were others of the same name less famous than the subject of this notice: Nest, daughter of
NEWELL, EBENEZER JOSIAH (1853 - 1916), cleric, schoolmaster, and historian library at Nottage Court (see the article Knight of Tythegston), he became interested in the history of the Welsh Church, and did good work in that field - becoming also a prominent member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Besides a volume of verse (The Sorrow of Simona, 1882), he published A Popular History of the Ancient British Church, 1887, A History of the Welsh Church to the Dissolution
NEWTON, LILY (1893 - 1981), scientist retirement and her appointment as Emeritus Professor, she continued to be active in this field until the 1970s as a consultant to Cremer and Warner (Sir Frederick Warner's engineering company) and Rio Tinto Zinc. She lived in Aberystwyth with her maid (also called Lily) in Cae Melyn until the end of the 1970s, and died at her godson's home in Pontardawe on 26 March 1981 at the age of 88.

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