Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Tasker Watkins was born on 18 November 1918 at 9 Station Terrace, Nelson, Glamorgan, the second son and the fourth of seven children of Bertram Watkins, an engine fitter and later a government employee, and his wife Jane (née Phillips). His father and grandfather both fought in Kitchener's Army and his father's two brothers were killed fighting with the Welsh Guards in the First World War. He won
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
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited employ workless miners, and stem emigration to England. He was a staunch supporter in the pre-war years of the then fledgling air and motor transport industries. (One of his later cars bore the number ANY 1). He was a Freemason; in 1947 he was elected president of Cardiff Central Conservative Association; and he was knighted in 1934. He married, 30 December 1911, Jane Bennet Perkins, of Chepstow (died
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
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet of that parish there are records not only of the death of the poet on the last day of August 1580, but also of the christening of his son Richard in 1569, of the death of his daughter Jane in 1585, and of the death of ' Richard Llŷn, Miller ' in 1587. It may, therefore, be inferred that he lived at Oswestry, at least for the last eleven years of his life. Rhys Cain and Morris Kyffin were his pupils
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician Referred to by contemporaries as 'Sir' Thomas Williams and 'Sir' Thomas ap William, he generally styles himself 'Thomas Wiliems, physician.' Little is known about him, apart from his work. According to his own testimony, he was born 'at Ardhe'r Meneich, at the foot of Eryri, in the commote of Llechwedd (i.e. Arllechwedd) Isaf, Caernarvonshire,' but he does not mention the year of his birth. His
WILKINS family . Mary church (Llan-fair), Glamorganshire. The last-named Thomas Wilkins went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1641, and took a law degree in 1661; in addition to S. Mary church he also held the rectories of Gelli-gaer (1666) and Llan-maes (1668), and a prebend at Llandaff. He died 20 August 1699, aged 74. He had married Jane, daughter of Thomas Carne of Nash and grand-daughter of Sir Edward Stradling of S
WILLIAM, DAVID (1720 - 1794), hymn-writer Born in the parish of Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. He is possibly the David William, 'exhorter in Llanfynydd' who became a schoolmaster, according to the report made by James Williams to the Methodist Association in 1743. He is known to have been an exhorter, but it is easy to mix him up with David Williams (1717-1792) of Llyswyrny. He lived at 'Llandeilo fach in the county of Glamorgan' when his

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