Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TREVOR family Brynkynallt, October as governor of Ruthin, where his cavalry was repulsed on 19 October, but his deputy held the castle and forced its owner, Myddelton, to retreat. After further service in England till the king's final defeat, he returned to Ireland (c. 1647) to fight under Monck, who made him governor of Carlingford (March 1648). He justified the mistrust of the Roundheads by deserting to Ormonde in June 1649
TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player Maurice Turnbull was born in Cardiff on 16 March 1906, the third of the six children of Philip Bernard Turnbull (1879-1930), ship-owner, and his wife Annie Marie Hennessy Oates (c.1879-1942). His father was a Welsh international hockey player who won a bronze medal with the Welsh team at the 1908 Olympics. Maurice was educated at Downside School and Cambridge University. He married Elizabeth
TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry sixth child of Henry and Jane Turner who lived on a small landed estate called Low Mosshouse, Seathwaite, near Broughton-in-Furness, north Lancashire (he was christened 23 March 1766); his father was lessor of the Walmascar slate quarries. He was educated under the Rev. Robert Walker, 'the wonderful Robert Walker,' incumbent of Seathwaite (and grandfather of Mrs. Thomas Casson, Blaenddôl
TURNOR, DAVID (1751? - 1799), cleric and agriculturist son of John Turnor of Crug-mawr, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire (died 1775), by his wife Margaret Gyon of Ffynnon Coranau, Pembrokeshire. He was educated at Oxford (matriculated from Christ Church, 22 May 1767, aged 16, B.A. 1771, M.A. of Cambridge), and ordained deacon, 7 March 1773, and priest, 21 September 1774. He served the curacy of Penrhyn and Betws Evan, Cardiganshire, and was chaplain to the
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist like many other students for the ministry. He arrived in France at the end of September 1916, and served on the front line until he was seriously wounded on 23 October 1917 when he inhaled poisonous gas whilst treating the wounded at the battle of Passchendaele. He was blind, deaf and unable to speak for three months in hospitals in England, but by March 1918 he had recovered sufficiently to be moved
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, Member of Parliament for Carmarthenshire, 1624-9, and admitted to Gray's Inn in February 1637/8. In March 1642 the House of Commons nominated him lord-lieutenant of the militia, to be raised in Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire; but on the outbreak of the Civil War he was appointed by the king to the command of the Royalist Association of the three western counties. The House of Commons, therefore
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington heir. SILVANUS VAUGHAN, John's son, matriculated at Oxford, aged 17, 17 March 1676, and took his M.A. degree in 1682. He was rector of Tilston, Cheshire, and was buried at Kington, 9 July 1706. The estate went to Frances, daughter of John Vaughan. She married William Gwyn Vaughan of Trebarried (died 1752), who was descended from an illegitimate son of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower.
VAUGHAN family Tretower Court, -ton, and Llangoed, 15 November 1461, and lands in south-west England, 11 July 1462. He took a prominent part in quelling a rising in Carmarthenshire in 1465, and received grants of the insurgents' manors and estates in Gower and Kidwelly. By 23 March 1465 he was a knight, though the investiture is not recorded by Shaw. He was on commissions of 'oyer et terminer' in Wales and the Marches in 1467 and
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, ANN VAUGHAN, who married David Jones Gwynne, of Taliaris, Carmarthenshire She, the last heir in the direct line, died 16 March 1758, leaving no issue. The last male representative was EVAN LLOYD VAUGHAN, Member of Parliament for Merioneth, brother to William Vaughan. Upon the death of Evan Lloyd Vaughan on 4 December 1791, Corsygedol and the associated estates passed to his niece, Margaret, wife of
VAUGHAN family Trawsgoed, Crosswood, ). They were the parents of Sir John Vaughan (1603 - 1674), chief justice. The eldest son of the chief justice and Jane (Stedman) was EDWARD VAUGHAN (died 1683), who in 1677 edited his father's Reports. He was member of Parliament for Cardigan, 26 February 1678/9 to 28 March 1681, and was for a short me one of the Lords of the Admiralty. His wife was Letitia, daughter of Sir William Hooker. Their son
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, , 5 June 1561. He was Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire, 1553-62, when he was succeeded by his son Rowland Vaughan, and again in 1571. In the meantime he had represented the borough of Brecon, 1562-7. He died before 31 March 1585 when administration of his estate was granted. He left several children by his wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. The eldest, Watkin, died
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Bruce Vaughan was born 6 March 1856 at Frederick Street, Cardiff, the youngest of the four children of Thomas Vaughan, sailor and tailor, and his wife Jane Agnes Gribble (née Davies). Educated at a private school in Charles Street, Cardiff, Bruce Vaughan became articled to W D Blessley, a prominent local architect, and attended the Cardiff Science and Arts Schools, winning the medal of the

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