Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKINS, THOMAS ARWYN (1924 - 2003), Welsh scholar 1943 before being drafted into the army. He returned to college in 1947 to take a diploma in education but in 1948 he was invited by Henry Lewis, the professor of Welsh, to study for an honours degree in Welsh and he gained his first-class degree the following year. As a research topic for his M.A. degree he chose to study the Welsh dialect of his native area and his dissertation laid the foundations
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer Helen Watts was born in Milford Haven on 7 December 1927, the daughter of Thomas Watts, a pharmacist, and his wife Winifred (née Morgan). She grew up in Haverfordwest and attended St Mary and St Anne School, Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire. There was music in the family: she started to play the piano at the age of seven, and her brother was a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral and later a choral
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
WEST, DANIEL GRANVILLE (Baron Granville-West of Pontypool), (1904 - 1984), Labour politician Officers' Association, was a PPS, 1950-51, to J. Chuter Ede, the Home Secretary, and he was also chairman of the Advisory Council on Civil Aviation in Wales. He was a senior partner in D. Granville West, Chivers and Morgan, solicitors, based at Newbridge and Pontypool. He married on 12 January 1937 Vera, the daughter of J. Hopkins of Pontypool. They had one son and one daughter and lived at Brynderwen
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), Professor of Education Born in 1886, daughter of Henry Burford Wheeler, Brecon. She was educated at Brecon County School for Girls and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she was president of the Students' Representative Council and graduated B.Sc. (1907); she received a M.Sc. degree (1911) and was elected a Fellow of the University of Wales. She went as a research student to Bedford College, London
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist Olive Wheeler was born in Brecon on 4 May 1886, the younger daughter of Annie Wheeler (née Poole) and her husband, Henry Burford Wheeler, a printer and publisher. She received her early education at Brecon County School for Girls, before enrolling at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in 1904, where she graduated with a BSc in Chemistry in 1907, a University of Wales Teaching
WHITE, JOHN (1590 - 1645), Puritan Born 29 June 1590, the second son of Henry White of Henllan (Hentland) in the parish of Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire. He was descended from a family of Tenby merchants, one of whom, Thomas White, is said to have helped Henry Tudor to escape to Brittany in 1471. John White matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, on 20 November 1607, was admitted to the Inner Temple on 6 November 1610, and called
WHITEHEAD, LEWIS STANLEY (1889 - 1956), secretary of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales Born 12 January 1889 in Stoke-on-Trent, son of George Whitehead. Four years later the family moved to Cardiff where he was educated at the High School. From 1910-16 he was manager of Rank Mills, Truro, and, indicative of his love of music, he became lay vicar choral of Truro and (later) Llandaff cathedral s. After serving with the Royal Flying Corps, 1916-19, he became assistant to Frank Morgan
WILLIAM, LODWICK (fl. 1689?), writer of interludes was the author of Sherlyn Benchwiban, an interlude published in 1802 by Morgan Rees. Though the latter may have had several compositions by Lodwick William in his possession, the above is the only one which he appears to have published. Few biographical details are available concerning this writer, but his interlude contains references to personages and incidents which suggest that it was
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1697 - 1778) Mynydd-bach, Independent minister, and author poet and printed a number of other small books, including three impressions (1727, 1766, 1767) of Gwaedd Ynghymru yn wyneb pob Cydwybod, together with Morgan Llwyd's Llythur ir Cymru Cariadus, his friend Joseph John's Dammegion Iesu Grist ar Gan, 1761, and a translation of Henry Evans Bedwellty's Cynghorion Tad i'w Fab, 1771. After having been John Harries's right hand man throughout the period of
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1761 - 1844), Independent minister, and hymn-writer minister in the same manner as David Williams of Aberthyn (1717 - 1792) and Morgan John Lewis, and in 1806 Bethesda chapel was built by him and his flock at Llantwit Major. The church was recognised by the regional association of the Independents in 1814 and he was its minister for the rest of his life. In 1790 he married Jane Morgan of Eglwys Brewis, and they went to live at Fonmon and later at
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, This family was descended from Morgan Fychan, second son of Morgan Gam, who in his early days was connected with the area round Baglan; poets of distinction (see D. R. Phillips, below) wrote in honour of various members of this family during the Middle Ages. The surname was adopted by the descendants of William ap Jenkin ap Hopkin of Blaen Baglan; it was his second son, Jenkin William, who first

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