Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TURNOR, DAVID (1751? - 1799), cleric and agriculturist died off Prince of Wales Island, 2 January 1801, aged 42. Another brother, LEWIS TURNOR, was in holy orders (matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 17 December 1777, aged 20). He purchased Wervilbrook, 1802, and continued his brother's agricultural interests, subscribing towards the Agricultural Society, and winning its premiums. He died in 1834.
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Lewis Valentine was born on 1 June 1893 in a house named 'Hillside' in Clip Terfyn street, Llanddulas, Denbighshire, the second of the seven children of Samuel Valentine (1854-1940), a quarryman who was a Baptist lay preacher, and his wife Mary (née Roberts, 1865-1928). He had three brothers, Richard, Idwal and Stanley, and three sisters, Hannah, Nel and Lilian. Bethesda chapel in Llanddulas was
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington an allusion by Guto'r Glyn, believed that he fell in a preliminary skirmish on Monday, 23 (recte 24) July. From Lewis Glyn Cothi's elegies upon his death it could be argued that he fell in the main battle on the 26th, and there was a tradition in the family in the time of Dr. John David Rhys that he, and not Sir Richard Herbert, was the hero of that battle. His body was brought home for burial at
VAUGHAN family Llwydiarth, from Edward de Charleton, lord of Powys, dated 7 Henry V. The family is not mentioned by Lewis Glyn Cothi, and presumably was not powerful before Tudor times. The Vaughans appear to have been constantly at feud with the Herberts, which may explain why they provided no members of parliament for Montgomeryshire, and only one sheriff, JOHN ab OWEN VAUGHAN (in 1583); he married Dorothy, daughter of
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, 1468. In the earl of Warwick's charter to Neath abbey, 24 June 1468, Vaughan as the earl's chancellor at Cardiff is the first witness, and Thomas ap Roger, possibly his son, is described as coroner of Cardiff. The common belief that he fell with his brothers at the battle of Banbury is incorrect. Lewis Glyn Cothi called upon him to avenge that battle, and on 16 February 1470 he was appointed
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, The pedigree of this illustrious North Wales family as given by Lewis Dwnn, deputy-herald-at-arms, and by other genealogists, begins (normally) with the union of Osbwrn Wyddel and the daughter and heiress of the old Welsh family of Corsygedol, this daughter being a ward of Llywelyn the Great. Details of the pedigree were given to Dwnn, when he visited Corsygedol in 1588, by GRIFFITH VAUGHAN, head
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, his uncle, Thomas ap Roger of Hergest. He was at one time constable of Aberystwyth castle and his praises were sung by Dafydd Nanmor and Lewis Glyn Cothi. Lewis Glyn Cothi also sang to Lewis ap Watkin, calling him the Roland of Llanbedr Painscastle and Rhulen. According to Lewis Dwnn, the Vaughans of Pont-faen, in Cemais, were descended from John Vaughan, another son. It is also said that John
VAUGHAN family Clyro, least two sons, ROGER VAUGHAN III, the heir, and THOMAS VAUGHAN, of Llowes, who married Sibyl, daughter of Howell ap Thomas Goch. The two brothers fell foul of bishop Rowland Lee in 1538. Thomas may have been the Thomas Vaughan of Clyro who was pardoned for a murder, 14 August 1536. The two brothers were closely examined by Lee and Sulyard, 18 July 1538, and whatever the cause may have been, it was
VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, muniments (in the National Library of Wales) is an indenture of 1547 whereby RICHARDE AP MORIS VAUGHAN, father of MORIS AP RICHARD AP MORIS of Llanafan, in consideration of the intended marriage between the son and Elliw, daughter and heiress of Howell ap Jenkin, covenants, with other persons, to assure to the use of the son and Elliw two messuages, etc.. one of which is 'the place at Trausgoed ', i.e
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest Benjamin Vaughan was born on 25 December 1917 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, the son of James O. Vaughan (b. 1877), an alderman in the town, and his wife Elizabeth (née Lewis, b. 1877). He was educated at St David's College, Lampeter, where he took a first in Classics and then at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he achieved a second in Theology. He completed ministerial training at Westcott House
VAUGHAN, Sir GRUFFUDD (d. 1447), soldier Owain Glyn Dŵr. Later in life this Gruffudd held a position under the lords of Stafford at Caus castle, and at that period Lewis Glyn Cothi addressed an ode to him. It is difficult to accept a statement by Lewis Dwnn (Visitations, i, 312) that ' Sr. Griffith Vaughan of Gwenwys Kt.' was a burgess of Welshpool on 7 June 1406. There is a persistent tradition that Gruffudd Vaughan was in the band of
VAUGHAN, RICE (d. 1670), lawyer and author Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire. Having failed to get himself elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1654, he petitioned the Council of State, alleging irregularities on the part of the sheriff (Maurice Lewis); the member elected was John Vaughan, Cefnbodig (see summary account in W. R. Williams, Hist. of the Great Sessions in Wales, based on Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series

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