Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JONES, WILLIAM SAMUEL (Wil Sam; 1920 - 2007), playwright
JONES, WILLIAM TUDOR (1865 - 1946), minister (U) and philosopher
KATHERYN of BERAIN (Mam Cymru, The mother of Wales; 1534/5 - 1591) Hamburg, where Clough died in 1570. She and Clough had two daughters, (a) Anne (born 1568), who married Roger Salusbury, and (b) Mary (born 1569), who married William Wynn of Melai. Clough provided handsomely for his widow and daughters and for his two stepsons. Katheryn returned to Berain and engaged William Cynwal of Penmachno, the bard and genealogist, to compile a record of her family - see his own
KENRICK family Wynn Hall, Bron Clydwr, 1707, and became pastor of the 'New Meeting' at Wrexham from then till his death. It was during his pastorate that the Jacobite mob in Wrexham wrecked the chapel (15-30 July 1715); Kenrick lent money for repairs and was reimbursed by the Government (1717). In 1723 he married Sarah, widow of John Taylor of Esclusham and granddaughter of Capt. William Wynn (died 1692), of Wynn Hall, which he inherited
KILVERT, ROBERT FRANCIS (1840 - 1879), cleric and diarist September 1879. Kilvert's fame rests upon the diary which he began in January 1870 and kept up till March 1879; parts of this (June 1876-December 1877) have been lost, but considerable selections of the remainder, edited by William Plomer, were published in 3 volumes in 1938-40. Kilvert's observations on nature and on social life in the Wye valley are of the highest interest and value.
KINSEY, WILLIAM MORGAN (1788 - 1851), cleric and traveller
KNIBB, MARY (c.1798 - 1866), abolitionist and social reformer the Sunday school alongside fellow parishioner, William Knibb, who was an apprentice printer from Northamptonshire. The pair formed an 'acquaintance' and got married in Bristol on 5 October 1823, before travelling to Jamaica as missionaries a month later. Letters from Broadmead's minister and fellow church members describe Mary as an 'exceptionally sweet tempered and sensible girl'. They felt Mary
KNIGHT, WILLIAM BRUCE (1785 - 1845), Welsh scholar, ecclesiastic, and administrator Born 24 December 1785 at Braunton, Devon, the second son of John Knight and Margaret Bruce, daughter of William Bruce, Duffryn, Aberdare and a brother to John Bruce Pryce. His maternal grandparents were Wm. Bruce of Llanblethian, Glamorganshire, and Jane, grand-daughter of Sir Thomas Lewis, Llanishen. When the son was quite young the parents moved from Braunton to Llanblethian. He was educated at
KYFFIN, EDWARD (c. 1558 - 1603), cleric and composer of metrical psalms , states that Kyffin had composed about fifty metrical psalms before he fell a victim to the plague in 1603. In one only of the three variant forms of the preliminary pages of Psalmae y Brenhinol Brophvvyd Dafydh … by Wiliam Middelton, 1603, there appears, on pp. 3-4, an elegy to the author, 'Mawl-gerdh farwnad i gapten William Middelton,' by Kyffin. It is not certain whether he or another of the same
KYFFIN, MORRIS (c. 1555 - 1598), writer and soldier it is more than likely that he was the son of Tomos Kyffin and his wife, Catrin Lloyd, both of whom belonged to county families living near Oswestry. All that we know about his education is that he studied poetry under William Llŷn and that, later on, in London, 1578-80, he was one of the pupils and friends of the celebrated John Dee. About 1580-2 he was tutor to lord Buckhurst's sons. He wrote a
LACY (DE) family, constables of Chester Halton, Red Tower of the castle. His other son, JOHN, having also predeceased him, he was succeeded by his daughter, ALICE, wife of Thomas, earl of Lancaster, though dower was assigned to his second wife, a Welsh lady, Joan, sister of William, sixth baron Martin of Cemais. Alice was involved in her husband's downfall, and following his execution, in March 1322, she surrendered to the king all her
LACY (DE) family, lords Ewyas, Weobley, great crusader and a leading figure in the initial stages of the Irish Conquest. Hugh's three sons, WALTER, HUGH, and WILLIAM, though in the main preoccupied with questions of Anglo-Irish politics, had close associations with Wales. Walter (died 1241), the elder son, by Rose of Monmouth, inherited the Welsh estates, and, having tasted of king John's vengeance during the Irish expedition of 1210 (he

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