Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATCYN CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1630-1650), poet
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge wounded by mortar bomb shrapnel. The wounds were serious enough for doctors to consider amputation of his leg but he persuaded them not to. On his discharge from hospital, he was no longer fit for active service and was posted on 6 December to command C Company at 164 OCTU in Trenthan. He was released from active military service on 28 May 1945 when he was granted the honorary rank of Major. The
WATKINS, THOMAS (fl. 17th century), Puritan preacher, Particular Baptist the journey he made, in company with William Prichard of Abergavenny, early in July 1668, to Rhydwilym in west Wales, to establish a new Baptist cause there under the leadership of William Jones (died c. 1700), who had been baptized at Olchon a short time before; though Watkins is sometimes given the credit of being the actual baptizer, the prominence of Prichard as Baptist leader and the impression
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr afterwards a weigher in the iron-works at Blaina, but returned (c. 1860) to Blaenavon to keep the 'Three Cranes' inn - his wife, Mary (Lewis), had died 1859 at Blaina - they had two daughters. He died 31 January 1889. A zealous eisteddfodic competitor, he was a founder-member of ' Cymreigyddion y Fenni ' (for which see under Carnhuanawc and under Bevan, Thomas, 1802 - 1882); he won many prizes and medals
WATKYNS, ROWLAND (c.1614 - 1664), cleric and author
WAYNE family, industrialists MATTHEW WAYNE (c. 1780 - 1853), iron-master and coal-owner Business and Industry came into prominence as the furnace manager of Richard Crawshay, ironmaster, Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil. Richard Crawshay thought so highly of Matthew Wayne that he left him £800 in his will. By means of this large sum (Crawshay died in 1810) he was enabled to become a partner with Joseph Bailey in purchasing the
WHITE, RAWLINS (fl. 1485?-1555), one of the only three Marian martyrs in Wales the others were bishop Robert Ferrar and William Nichol of Haverfordwest, of whom nothing further seems to be known. White, a fisherman (from c. 1535) at Cardiff, is first heard of in the Ministers' Accounts of 1541-2, when he was the tenant of a half-burgage in the street extending from the West Gate as far as the wall of the town in front of ' le slauterhouse in Hom'by ' (= Womanby), i.e. in
WILIAM EGWAD (fl. c. 1450), poet
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet and it was to Rhys that he left his books. Both Siôn Phylip and Rhys Cain wrote elegies for him, and he is said to have died before attaining the age of 46. More than half the poems in J. C. Morrice's edition of his poetry (Phillipps 21559 in the Cardiff Free Library) were copied from manuscripts believed to have been in the poet's own handwriting. This collection comprises sixteen awdlau, fifty
WILIAM PENLLYN (fl. c. 1550-1570), chief harpist
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' John was the eldest son of ISAAC WILKINSON, a Cumbrian iron worker turned master in a small way. He was born at Clifton, Cumb., in 1728, and educated at the Dissenting Academy of Caleb Rotheram at Kendal. After working with his father from c. 1748 he found employment in Midland iron-works and himself established furnaces there in which coal was successfully used to displace charcoal. When, in
WILLIAM ALAW (fl. c. 1535), poet

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