Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge under Theophilus Field) the manuscript of the ' Book of Llandaff ' and lent it to Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, to transcribe (see E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123). In one of his most noteworthy opinions, he held that the West-minister courts could not issue final process into Wales (Reports, 395). His authority was sufficient to safeguard the Welsh courts for a period. He based his argument on the
VAUGHAN, RICHARD (1550? - 1607), bishop Born c. 1550, second son of Thomas ap Robert Fychan of Nyffryn, Llyn, Caernarfonshire. He was educated at S. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1574, M.A. 1577, D.D. 1589). Shortly after 1577, he was appointed chaplain to John Aylmer, bishop of London, who is said to have been related to him (Baker, Hist. of St. John's College, Cambridge, 235). He received numerous preferments, including a canonry
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library North Wales. Robert Powell Vaughan, or Robert Vaughan as he came to be known, was born at Gwengraig, about 1592, judging by the record of his entry into Oriel College, Oxford, at the age of 20, in 1612. He left college without taking his degree. The early period of his life is obscure, but it can be argued from his friendship with Rhys and Siôn Cain, whom he acknowledged to be his tutors in genealogy
VAUGHAN, Sir ROBERT WILLIAMES (d. 1859), baronet - see WYNN
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales He was the son of Robert Vaughan of Monmouth and Margaret his wife. The assertion in History of Parliament (1439-1509) that he was the heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower must be rejected. He received denizenship (being a Welshman) by order of the Privy Council and at the instance of lord Somerset and Adam Moleyns, 30 March 1442/3. He was granted the offices of steward, receiver, and master of
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer Neath he delivered there lectures in elementary physics. He frequented the nearby Royal Institution at Swansea where there were discussions on topics such as Robert Chamber's Vestiges of creation. His period in Neath was a significantly formative one in the development of Wallace as a naturalist. In 1847 he published his first scientific 'paper' - a short note in the Zoologist describing his discovery
WALLENSIS Grey Friar who became bishop of S. Davids Religion; there is no doubt at all that he was Welsh, for we have his own statement to this effect. He was one of the first four Grey Friars to teach at Oxford, and both Roger Bacon and Robert Grosseteste spoke highly of him (Little, Studies in English Franciscan History, 194-5). He was appointed bishop of S. Davids, 16 July 1247, consecrated 26 July 1248
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet considerable number of towns (e.g. Carmarthen; Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club, xxii, 16), and he was given the freedom of the city of London - one of the sponsors being his fellow-countryman, Robert Waithman. But this popularity soon vanished when, in 1810, he became involved in a law-suit concerning Mrs. Clarke, the duke of York's mistress; he lost a great deal of
WARNER, MARY WYNNE (1932 - 1998), mathematician academic work partly in order to put such tragedies to the back of her mind. Mary Warner's mathematical creativity showed no sign of waning and, contrary to the more normal pattern among mathematicians, she accomplished her best work during her latter years. Her main research focus was, in her words, 'to make precise the property of imprecision' and she made significant contributions to this field, which
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure Holywell urban district council and by 1919 he was on the county council, the main field of his public activity. He was created an alderman of the county council in 1931 and was a most effecive chairman, 1938-40. In 1920 he became J.P. and in 1945 vice-chairman of the court of Quarter Sessions. He was High Sheriff for Flintshire in 1942-43 and in 1945 he was appointed a C.B.E. Always a staunch Liberal
WATKINS, ALBERT JOHN (1922 - 2011), cricketer folklore as being the last man in a Test match to field a shot from Bradman, struck on the first ball. He toured South Africa with the MCC team in the winter of 1948-9, and became the first Welshman to score a Test hundred when he scored 111 in the fourth Test at Ellis Park in February 1949. He surpassed this score in November 1951 when he scored 137 not out in the match against India at Delhi: his

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