Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (d. c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary the manor of Icomb in Gloucestershire which had belonged to her father and was inherited by her eldest son. James Whitney died on 30 June 1500, leaving Blanche with Robert aged thirteen years, and James, Watkin and Elizabeth who were younger. (Elizabeth's daughter, Ann Morgan of Arkstone, Herefordshire, married Henry Carey, later Lord Hunsdon by licence on 21 May 1545; he was the son of Mary Boleyn
TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) Father of Henry VII, eldest son of Owain Tudor by Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V. For the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. Brought up in England under the tutelage of his royal half-brother, Henry VI, by whom he was created earl of Richmond in 1452-3, he had no connection with Wales until after his marriage in 1455 to the lady Margaret Beaufort
TUDOR, HENRY - see HENRY VII
TUDOR, JASPER (c. 1431 - 1495), earl of Pembroke second son of Owain Tudor and Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V; for the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. Born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, he was brought up at the convent of Barking, Essex, with his elder brother, Edmund, and their interests appear to have been fostered under the kindly eye of their royal half-brother, Henry VI. In 1452-3 Jasper was
TUDUR PENLLYN (c. 1420 - c. 1485-90), bard mayor, was slain; Rheinallt died either in 1465 or 1466), and Dafydd Siencyn, one of the faithful supporters of Jasper Tudor and Henry of Richmond, a man who was famous for his raids on England. As might have been expected, Tudur Penllyn was favourably inclined to those noblemen who stood up for their rights at a time of fierce enmity between the Welsh and English. He excelled in writing panegyrics
TURBERVILLE family Coity, and service of the lord king ' (Henry III, then an infant). At the same time he acquired the manor of Newcastle, previously held by Morgan Gam, and from that time Coity and Newcastle devolved together. GILBERT III succeeded his father and was in possession of Coity and Newcastle (the latter among the new feoffments, i.e. post 1135) at the time of the 'Extent' of Glamorgan in 1262. He died some time
TURBERVILLE family Crickhowell, principal tenant of Bernard de Newmarch in 1121, and was probably therefore the original holder. A HUGH TURBERVILLE, according to the Testa de Nevill, held Dulverton by the tenure of castle guard at Brecon by grant from Henry II - a most peculiar tenure for a Devonshire lordship. A HUGH TURBERVILLE and a RICHARD TURBERVILLE attested Brecon charters in 1215 and 1220. Another HUGH TURBERVILLE was at
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
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist a direct result of his war experiences. Valentine returned to the university in Bangor in January 1919, where he lodged with his sister Hannah who kept a grocer's shop in the town with her husband. He graduated with a first-class in Semitic languages in June 1919, and was awarded the degree of MA two years later for a thesis on Welsh translations of the Book of Job by William Morgan and Richard
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist became a biochemist at Edinburgh University, and Joanna (b. 1945) who became an architect. Ruth van Heyningen studied for a PhD at Cambridge under the supervision of Robin Hill, but because of the classified nature of the work (on antidotes to chemical weapons) the thesis could not be submitted. After moving to London she worked at the Lister Institute with Walter T. J. Morgan on antigens for blood
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician Pendrill Varrier-Jones was born at Glyn Taff House, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, on 24 February 1883, the son of Dr Charles Morgan Jones, a local doctor, and his wife Margaret Varrier (née Jenkins), whose family ran a coal mining business. (He changed his surname from Jones to Varrier-Jones in 1929). He had one sister. He was educated at Epsom College and then Wycliffe College, Stonehouse. At
VAUGHAN family Clyro, This branch of the Vaughan family was founded by ROGER VAUGHAN I, third son of Thomas ap Roger Vaughan of Hergest. His wife was Jane, daughter of David ap Morgan ap John ap Philip. Their heir was ROGER VAUGHAN II, who married Margaret, daughter of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn ap Meyrick. It is possible that he was the commissioner of tenths of spiritualties in Radnorshire in January 1535. He had at

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