Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet enlisted in the Antient British Fencible Cavalry, a regiment formed by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, which was on active service in Ireland from 1797 to 1799; in 1796 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Society of Antient Britons in London. He was refused a commission in the regular army (a pamphleteer hints that he was guilty of some dishonesty when engaged in buying remounts for his regiment), but he
WARING, ELIJAH (c. 1788 - 1857), merchant, author and publisher reform; it was he who wrote several of the leading articles on this subject published in the new Swansea newspaper, The Cambrian. It is not surprising, therefore, that he became fond of the company of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg). After the death of Iolo in 1826 Waring wrote his reminiscences of him in a series of articles in The Cambrian. In 1850, he published his famous biography, Recollections
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Wales ', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1920; ' The French literary influence in Mediaeval Wales ', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1921; with V.E. Nash-Williams, 'A pre-reformation inscribed chalice and paten', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 3 (1925); 'Albert Stimmings Welsche Fassung in the Anglonormanische Boeve de Hamtone, an
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister and Music Club of the town for many years, and during World War II he was Chairman of Undeb Cymru Fydd in the area. He owned a wide-ranging and valuable library, and was an authority on first editions. On 12 September 1905, in Tabernacl, Maesteg, he married Jane, the daughter of David and Elizabeth (née Jenkins) Williams. She died on 14 December 1936 and he on 16 December 1947, and they were both
WATKIN-JONES, ELIZABETH (1887 - 1966), author of children's books born 13 July 1887 in Nefyn, Caernarfonshire, the only daughter of Henry and Jane Parry. Her father was a sea captain who was drowned in South America before his daughter saw him. She was educated in the school in Nefyn, Pwllheli county school, and in the Normal College, Bangor, and then became an infants teacher in Aberdare, Onllwyn, Porthmadog, Trefriw, and Nefyn. She married John Watkin-Jones
WATKINS, THOMAS (fl. 17th century), Puritan preacher, Particular Baptist church were only thirty. In the same document he is described as an aged minister, failing in energy and service, but receiving great help from others, especially from Thomas Parry (died 1709), minister of Llanigon and Hay. Watkins must have died c. 1695.
WATKYNS, ROWLAND (c.1614 - 1664), cleric and author people of note in South Wales and the English Border, many of them to members of landed families. There is one ' To his Honoured friend Mr. John Williams the most pious and learned Minister and Vicar of Devynnock and Luel.' That he was married is proved by ' An epitaph upon my beloved daughter Susanna Watkyns, who was born upon Ash Wednesday, 1655, and dyed the 5 of August, 1658.'
WAYNE family, industrialists , in conjunction with George Rowland Morgan and Edward Morgan Williams, the latter of whom retired in 1829. For a time Wayne retained the management of the company in his own hands, while his sons were engaged elsewhere. The works were quite small compared with those at Aber-nant, Llwydcoed, etc., but they were compact, consisting of only one blast furnace for a considerable time, with the necessary
WEBB, HARRI (1920 - 1994), librarian and poet cultivated proudly the dialect of Dowlais which he believed to be the purest extant form of Welsh. His view of Wales was geographically confined to the southern valleys, Swansea and Gower. He was anti-English but disliked people from north Wales too and wrote a verse, 'Please Keep your Gog on a Lead'. He thought Robert Williams Parry was Wales' finest poet and felt something akin to hero-worship for Waldo
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Association in North Wales in 1891, and of the General Assembly in 1902-3. He contributed articles to the monthly and quarterly periodicals and published his ' Davies Lecture,' The Holy Spirit, in 1900. His biography was written by D. D. Williams (1925).
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator guidance and experience proved crucial in his chairmanship of the Commission on Education for the Ministry (1961), and also in the discussions which led to the setting up of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth. He was a handsome, dignified man, there is a pencil drawing of him by S. Morse Brown, a portrait by Kyffin Williams (1955), and a bust by Kustec Wojnarowski (1958) (in the Council Chamber
WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician to withdraw her bill. Unfortunately, the Royal Commission took a more conservative view and its report closed further discussion for thirteen years. Legislation in later years took up Eirene White's views on this difficult matter. David Astor, a family friend, approached her to take up the cause of Seretse Khama, exiled from Bechuanaland (now Botswana) after he married Ruth Williams, an English

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