Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VILE, THOMAS HENRY (1882 - 1958), rugby player British team to Australia and New Zealand. Because of the presence of Richard M. (' Dickie ') Owen in the Welsh team, he had to wait until 1908 before gaining his first cap. He became captain of the Newport team in 1909, and the partnership between him and Walter Martin was one of the most brilliant ever known. He had an acute tactical mind. He steered Newport to their historic win (9-3) over South
VINCENT family of Bangor, rector of Llandwrog, Caernarfonshire, and became rector of Llanfachraeth in 1763. He had several daughters, of whom one, JANE (1751 - 1812) married her cousin, an army officer named JOHN JONES, son of Owen Jones of Penychen (Aber-erch), canon of Bangor, by Catherine, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Vincent (above). Their son, JAMES JONES (1792 - 1876), who in 1820 assumed the name JAMES
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer between 1770 and 1783, but the remainder could not be printed until 1794, when Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) arranged for the work to be completed in London. Walters coined a large number of words which have become established in the Welsh vocabulary, and he sought to show how to translate English idioms into Welsh. Two editions were published during the last century and this was the work which Daniel Silvan
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist Devonshire (1748-1811). Subsequent reprints appeared in 1788, 1791, 1805 and 1823. The second edition contains two maps by William Owen (Pughe), one of the medieval divisions of Wales and the other of modern Wales; it appears that Warrington was introduced to Owen by Iolo Morganwg, with whom he is known to have corresponded (although no letters appear to have survived). Warrington's sympathy for his
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure Born 21 March 1878 at Holywell, Flintshire, second son of Thomas Holmes Waterhouse, an industrialist of Bradford and Holywell. He was educated at Oswestry High School under Owen Owen. At his father's death in 1902 the responsibility for the Holywell Textile Mills fell on his shoulders and between 1909 and 1957 he was successively manager, director and chairman of the company. In 1920 he was
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant Born 3 December 1871 at Llanfyllin, Montgomeryshire, son of Evan and Mary Watkins. One of ten children, he was educated at the local elementary school, and for five terms at the High School, Oswestry, under Owen Owen. He then returned home to assist his father, but in 1896 was appointed first Clerk of the Central Welsh board. In 1904 he was appointed chief clerk to the Education Department of the
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge to stand as a parliamentary candidate and he lost interest in any active involvement in politics. On completion of his pupillage to Griffith Owen George in the chambers of D Morgan Evans in Cardiff, he joined those chambers. He quickly developed a wide-ranging and very successful practice on the Wales & Chester Circuit, and was among those who undertook substantial civil and criminal work and met
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer Williams's Riders to the Sea under Meredith Davies in 1972. Though not fluent in Welsh, she retained great affection for Wales, particularly her native Pembrokeshire; she sang regularly in Wales, and recorded some Welsh songs, notably 'Berwyn' by D. Vaughan Thomas, 'Y bardd' by Mansel Thomas, and 'Gweddi Pechadur' by Morfydd Owen, all on the Qualiton label. At the Swansea Festival in 1969 she gave the
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), Professor of Education education and the future (1936), ' The mind of the child ' in Nursery School Education (G. Owen, editor, 1939), The adventure of youth (1945), part III of Mental Health and Education (1961); and papers in psychological and educational journals. She resided at Woodlands, Betws-y-coed Road, Cyncoed, Cardiff, and died suddenly, 26 September 1963.
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer Day of Judgement, which his master Rolant Huw thought not unworthy of comparison with the better-known cywyddau of Goronwy Owen and William Wynn (of Llangynhafal) on the same subject. He also wrote a to Dafydd Ionawr (David Richards), and exchanged englynion with Twm o'r Nant (Thomas Edwards). But the bulk of his work consists of elegies of purely local interest, carols, and 'club songs' - there is
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, Caernarvonshire 1571 and 1592, and of Montgomeryshire 1589 and 1596 (Breeze, Kalendars, 51 and 53; Lloyd, Sheriffs of Montgomeryshire, 232 and 269). His son by the first marriage, OWEN WILLIAMS, is commonly said to have been disinherited in favour of HENRY WILLIAMS, his son by the second marriage; the real facts are not so simple. At a date unknown, William Williams had granted his estate in tail male to Owen
WILLIAMS, ABRAHAM (Bardd Du Eryri; 1755 - 1828), poet and chair manufacturer . Rowland fab Owen, who tried to find out something about his history in America, states on the authority of his daughter, Catrin, that in 1798 he settled at Dorence, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where he bought land, set up a saw-mill on the river bank, and proceeded to manufacture chairs. Catrin showed Rowland one of the chairs her father had made; the seat was made of hickory strips and she said she

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