Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WALTERS, THOMAS GLYN (WALTER GLYNNE; 1890 - 1970), tenor Born 4 January 1890 son of David and Elizabeth (née Jones) Walters, Cefngorwydd, Gowerton, Glamorganshire, and was educated at Gowerton Grammar School. He was a bank clerk until he decided to take up a musical career, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London in 1910. He served in the Welsh Guards during World War I. In 1921, on the recommendation of Sir Landon Ronald, HMV's
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 the venture. In 1814 he settled at Neath and, in 1817, he married Deborah, daughter of Peter Price, and sister of Joseph Tregelles Price. Waring was a Quaker and used to preach in Nonconformist chapels in the neighbourhood. Later, he joined the Wesleyan body. He became well known as an advocate of liberty in the state and in the church, and he took a prominent part in the movement for Parliamentary
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist author of two forgotten dramas, The Cambrian Hero, or Llewelyn the Great (?1803) and Alphonso King of Castile, A Spanish Tragedy (1813). A poem by him entitled 'On Old Windsor Church-yard' is quoted in John Evans, An Excursion to Windsor, in July 1810 (1817), pp. 345-6. His major work is The History of Wales, published in London by Joseph Johnson in 1786, with a dedication to William, Duke of
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure in Clwyd county council office at Mold, and another at the home of his son, Sir Ronald Waterhouse, High Court Judge.
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Howard Gardens School, Cardiff. He followed classes at the University College, Cardiff, and in 1910 graduated with hons. in French and Welsh. A university fellowship and the Gilchrist Scholarship enabled him to go to France as ' reader in English ' in the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and reader in English language and literature in the University of Paris. Joseph Vendryes, at the time professor of comparative
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1911 he returned to Wales to be Registrar at the University College, Cardiff, where he remained until 1913, when he became Assistant Secretary to the Welsh Insurance Commission at Cardiff. In 1925 he succeeded (Sir) Alfred T. Davies as Permanent Secretary of the Welsh Department of the Board of Education where he immediately established the good relationships which were
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge industry and medical negligence; his practice in the criminal courts included the prosecution of the members of the Free Wales Army at the Swansea Assizes in 1969. His appearances in public inquiries included the Tribunal into the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, when he appeared as deputy to the Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones as counsel to the Tribunal and as such assumed the burdensome responsibility of
WATKINS, THOMAS EVAN (Eiddil Ifor, Ynyr Gwent; 1801 - 1889), eisteddfodwr , and contributed to Seren Gomer and to Y Bedyddiwr. He is best known for his parish history, Hanes Llanffrwyst, which took the prize at the first Abergavenny Cymreigyddion eisteddfod, 22 November 1834. It was published under the editorship of Sir Joseph Bradney in 1922, with an introduction from which the present notice has been compiled.
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer , Bernard Haitink and Herbert von Karajan. She also appeared regularly in opera at Covent Garden and Salzburg and with Welsh National Opera and was widely respected as one of the finest and most dependable singers of her generation. Particularly well regarded are her recordings of the Angel in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius under Sir Adrian Boult in 1976 and her part in the first complete recording of Vaughan
WAYNE family, industrialists lucrative iron-works at Nant-y-glo, which they took on lease 28 March 1811. The two partners soon made a success of this enterprise, which enabled Matthew Wayne, when he retired from the partnership (c. 1820, to make room for Sir Joseph Bailey's brother, viz. Crawshay Bailey), to save a considerable sum of money with which to commence a business of his own. Wayne then seems to have returned to the
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited Riddell), chairman of the News of the World and a major shareholder in the Western Mail. He won the post when, in answer to the question of what his recreations were, he replied, 'Work'. When the Western Mail needed an assistant manager for both the newspapers and the large printing business, Sir George, then chairman of the company, suggested Robert Webber. In three years, aged 32, he was appointed

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