Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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.
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party Robert Owen and the poetry of Robert Jones Derfel, Manchester (1824-1905). Nicholas left Gwynfryn School in 1901 and was ordained with the Welsh Independents, becoming minister of Horeb chapel, Llandeilo. He married Mary Alys Hopkins, the daughter of Thomas Hopkins, watchmaker, Ammanford. She was consistently supportive of her husband and they had two children, a son and a daughter. In 1903 Nicholas
NOVELLO, IVOR (1893 - 1951), composer, playwright, stage and film actor popular compositions of all, beginning with Glamorous night (1935), whilst his seventh and last, King's Rhapsody (1949), was his finest work in this field. There is no doubt that he drew the crowds when he was in the cast. See Sandy Wilson, Ivor (1975), for a remarkable list of his songs, plays, films and musical plays, his numerous performances on stage and in films, and his work as a producer and
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario . More significant for the history of Wales, in 1968 the new television consortium Lord Harlech chaired, Harlech Television (later HTV), acquired the contract of the Independent Television Authority (which managed the UK's third TV channel, ITV) to produce content for its Wales and West of England region. The new company's board included a number of significant Welsh figures, including Richard Burton
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM GEORGE ARTHUR (1885 - 1964), politician and banker , 1931-38, and in 1936 he was appointed Colonial Secretary, for which post his extensive experience in the field was invaluable. However, one of his chief political enemies, Neville Chamberlain, became Prime Minister in 1937 and the following year he resigned in bitter circumstances. He opposed the foreign policies of Chamberlain and he was a constant critic of the Nazis. In brief, he was a sincere and
OSBWRN WYDDEL (fl. 1293), Irish nobleman and ancestor of landed families in Merioneth Decies and Desmond.' Gerald (Fitz Walter) de Windsor was constable of Pembroke castle - he was alive in 1108; his wife was Nest, daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr. The well-known antiquary Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt (see Peniarth MS 6) surmised that Osbwrn came to Wales c. 1237 but W. W. E. Wynne suggests a rather later period. There is evidence that he was taxed up to a fifteenth in the parish of Llanaber in
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer appointed commanding officer of 58 Squadron, flying Handley Page Halifax bombers in an anti-submarine role. In May 1943, he participated in the sinking of three German U-boats in the Bay of Biscay, for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. In October 1943, he became commander of RAF Lajes Field, a base in the Portuguese Azores, and from there his squadrons could hunt enemy submarines and
OWEN family Plas-du, Rome, dying there on 30 May 1618. He kept in touch with Welsh affairs and frequently used Welsh in his secret correspondence. Dying a bachelor, he disinherited his Protestant nephew, John Owen the epigrammatist, in favour of his Catholic nephew Charles Gwynne, who commemorated him in the mural inscription at the English College quoted in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 130-1. ROBERT OWEN 1570), (fl

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