Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VICARI, ANDREW (1932 - 2016), painter , figures in a sort of fairground' to a student exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, which Little and fellow art student Archie Williams (1922-1993) had organised. At that time, he was still using his original surname of Vaccari. He was a stocky, dark haired, impulsive man, prone to exaggeration and obfuscation. He attended the Slade School of Art and, whilst in London, the story goes that
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral Margaret Lindsay Williams in 1931.
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer five years later in History of Kington (Richard Parry, 1845). At this stage Wallace started learning Welsh, attending services in local chapels and lodging with Welsh-speaking families. During his period in the Neath area Wallace's first serious interest in natural history emerged. He studied botany, was appointed joint-curator of the local museum and when a Mechanics' Institute was established in
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer of Moriah (Congl.), Tŷ-croes. Eurof Walters had for a time been a clerk with the Merthyr-Brecon Railway Company, before being apprenticed at Tracy's shop in Morriston as a jeweller and goldsmith (the explanation of his bardic name). He went to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford (see Watkin Hezekiah Williams), for half a year. He walked there from the home of his cousin John Dyer Richards, the eldest son of
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator of Henry Walford Davies Irwyn Walters had the opportunity to observe famous conductors who took part in the Gregynog music festivals, including Adrian Boult, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henry Wood. He became a teacher at Bideford then moved to Islington in 1928, where he also served as organist of the Welsh chapel in Willesden Green. He then moved to the King Edward VI School in
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister ' while preaching. In 1765, he built a meeting-house almost on the threshold of Philip David's old church at Pen-main; the chapel was generally known by the very Methodistical name, Tynewydd (the New House) - its official name being Bethel - and Williams of Pantycelyn, David Williams of Llyswyrny (1717 - 1792), and other Methodist preachers came there to preach. About 1765, Thomas Walters was ordained
WALTERS, THOMAS GLYN (WALTER GLYNNE; 1890 - 1970), tenor as a lyrical singer; he was known in particular for his rendering of ballads, but he was also a good tenor in oratorios, and in 1935 he recorded arias from Handel's Messiah. Among his Welsh records there are parts from Blodwen by Joseph Parry and ballads, some of which are to the vocal accompaniment of the Welsh Miners' Quartet from the Llanelli area. He took part in complete recordings of The
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

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