Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes Born 6 July 1821 at Singleton Park, Swansea (now the nucleus of the Swansea University College buildings), eldest son of JOHN HENRY VIVIAN, a merchant engaged in copper smelting, Member of Parliament for Swansea, 1822-55, by his wife, Sarah, daughter of Arthur Jones, The Priory, Reigate. From Eton, H. H. Vivian went for a time (1838-40) to study metallurgy in Germany and France before entering
WADE-EVANS, ARTHUR WADE (1875 - 1964), clergyman and historian English hymnody, and his MS of a proposed hymnal, ' Proper hymns for the Christian year ', is in the National Library of Wales with his other MSS and annotated volumes from his library. JOHN THOMAS EVANS ('Tomos ap Titus', 1 August 1869-10 May 1940), rector History and Culture Religion His elder brother, was educated at Llandovery, London College of Divinity and St. John's College, Cambridge, was rector
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London Born at Wrexham in 1764, the son of John Waithman, of Warton, Lancashire, a joiner at the Bersham furnace, and of his wife, Mary (Roberts). He served in a linen-draper's shop in London, and, about 1786, opened a shop of his own, first in Fleet Market, and then at 103 and 104 Fleet Street. He married, on 14 July 1787, his cousin, Mary Davis. He amassed a considerable fortune. Under the influence
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 Born 8 January, 1823, Kensington Cottage, Usk, Gwent, son of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne (n. Greenell). When Wallace was three years old the family moved to England where the young Alfred Russel attended school at Hertford. Aged 13 he moved to live with his brother John in London. Some years later he moved to live with his other brother, William, who was already established as a land
WALTER, HENRY (1611 - 1678), Puritan preacher, Independent ideas of William Wroth of Llanfaches; indeed, he was Wroth's prime favourite, and his name appears in Wroth's will (September 1638) as chief executor; for all that, early in 1639, through the help of his brother John as patron, he was made curate of Mounton, a small parish near his home. Curate or not, Puritan he was, and in 1646 he was named by Parliament, with two others, to go on an evangelical
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II had connections with some of the leading county families in West Wales. Her father, William Walter of Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, was the grandson of William Walter, who had purchased the manor of Roch from the de Longuevilles c. 1601. He had married Jane, daughter of Francis Laugharne of S. Brides, and Janet, daughter of John Philipps of Picton Castle. Her mother was Elizabeth Prothero, daughter
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer Born 27 May 1874 the eldest of the five children of John and Ann (née Dyer) Walters of Ty'n-y-coed, Betws, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. The father was a blacksmith and the family moved when David was five years old to Glais, near Clydach, Swansea Valley. He had his early education at the local board school where he became a pupil-teacher. The family were members at Seion, Glais, and his mother
WALTERS, EVAN JOHN (1893 - 1951), artist when it was unusual to buy original art. At the Swansea national eisteddfod of 1926 he won a prize for a painting of Pennard castle, receiving high praise from his adjudicator, Augustus John. His portraits often showed coal miners and local people, but he also had prominent figures sitting for him, such as David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Balfour, Rear Admiral Walker Heneage (later Walker
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer Born 22 August 1721, son of John Walters, timber merchant, Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. His parents died when he was a young lad. He went to Bassaleg, Monmouth, as schoolmaster, and afterwards was a pupil at Cowbridge grammar school. He then went to Margam to keep a school and, in 1750, was ordained. He was curate at Margam and afterwards received the perpetual curacy of Llanfihangel Ynys Afan. He
WALTERS, JOHN (1760 - 1789), cleric, poet, and scholar Born 11 June 1760 at Llandough, eldest son of John Walters, rector of Llandough. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school. He matriculated as of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1777, and graduated B.A. in 1781, M.A. 1784. He was sub-librarian in the Bodleian Library. In 1783 he was appointed headmaster of Cowbridge grammar school, becoming also curate at Cowbridge. Towards the end of 1784 he was
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

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