Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral Born 4 February 1871, third son of Major Clement Walker Heneage, V.C., 8th Hussars, of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, and Henrietta Letitia Victoria, daughter of John Henry Vivian of Singleton, Swansea. He married (1) in 1912 Helen Mary, daughter of Capt. E. de V. du Boulay, late R.H.A. and they had three daughters, Mary, Anne and Rhoda (they divorced in 1931); married (2) in 1931 Beryl, daughter of
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer of a rare beetle in the upper reaches of the Neath valley. In 1848, accompanied by his fellow-naturalist Henry Walter Bates, Wallace set out for South America. His four years there resulted in the publication of two significant works - Palm trees of the Amazon and their uses (1853) (now an extremely rare book) and A narrative of travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1853). Wallace spent the period
WALTER, HENRY (1611 - 1678), Puritan preacher, Independent A member of the house of Piercefield, S. Arvans, Monmouth. He matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, in 1633, 22 years old, and graduated B.C.L. His father was a squire, and the family were pronounced Anglicans; when his mother made her last will in 1623, the tithes of Howick, after the death of his brother, were to go to Henry. But he came very soon under the influence of the personality and
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer William Thomas, minister (Congl.) of Gwynfe, and Mary his wife; they had three children. In his latter years his health was impaired by the effects of the air-raids on Liverpool and also on Swansea where a great deal of the fruit of his scholarship and literary work was lost when Morgan and Higgs' bookshop was destroyed by enemy action. He died at his home 12 Hampstead Road, Elm Park, Liverpool, on 24
WALTERS, HENRY (1766 - 1829), printer - see THOMAS, RHYS
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Irwyn Walters was born on 6 December 1902 in Ammanford, the second of six children of William Walters and his wife Elizabeth (née Morgan). His father kept a tobacconist and newsagent's shop at Clifton House on the town square; he was also a keen solfaist and precentor at the Ebeneser Baptist chapel. Irwyn received early instruction in music from Gwilym R. Jones (1874-1953), conductor of the
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister minister (by the congregation itself, following the example of New Inn - see under Morgan John Lewis), as an Independent, of course. He died 25 May 1794, at the age of 65. Bethel continued to flourish for some time after the death of Thomas Walters, but about 1811 a minority seceded and founded the Methodist chapel at Gelli-groes. The direct successor of Thomas Walters as minister of Bethel (until 1811
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor texts (like Ystorya Bown o Hamtwn) translated from Old French where the same French word appears in both versions. Morgan Watkin believed he could trace Old French idioms in the syntax of some Medieval Welsh texts. His mastery of palaeography also enabled him to see in the script of the main Welsh MSS., copied in Cistercian houses, the influence of the Old French script of the mother-abbeys. It must
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Born 10 December 1875 in Ynys-Tawe, Glamorganshire, one of the six children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin : the father was one of the Grove family of Swansea, and the mother one of the Rhys's of Tŷ'n y Waun, and the Morgans of Cwmcilie. Professor Morgan Watkin was one of his brothers. He left the school at Pen-clun, Rhydypandy, at 12, and went to work in the local colliery and then in
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, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister baptised in 1789 (op. cit., 658) and began to preach (1790). He conducted missions in Llangynidr, Tredegar, and as far as the outskirts of Rhymney. In 1793 he went to live at Carmarthen in order to help his friend M. J. Rhys with the Cylchgrawn Cynmraeg, and there is a somewhat doubtful story (see J. J. Evans, Morgan John Rhys, 33-4) that the two were compelled to flee the town; however, he returned home
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge to stand as a parliamentary candidate and he lost interest in any active involvement in politics. On completion of his pupillage to Griffith Owen George in the chambers of D Morgan Evans in Cardiff, he joined those chambers. He quickly developed a wide-ranging and very successful practice on the Wales & Chester Circuit, and was among those who undertook substantial civil and criminal work and met

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