Dictionary of Welsh Biography

THOMAS, WILLIAM JENKYN (1870 - 1959), schoolmaster and author entitled ' Forgotten Welshmen '. He addressed the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1941 on the same subject, urging the compiling and publishing of biographies of eminent Welsh persons [see Trans. Cymm., 1941, 100-14]. For five years, if not more, he had appealed in lectures to the Guild of Graduates and on the radio for this project to be undertaken. He contributed to Bywgraffiadur / DWB. He made
TREE, RONALD JAMES (1914 - 1970), priest and schoolmaster Philosophy 1939 : B.Litt. 1941. He was at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, 1939-40. Ordained deacon in 1940, he served as curate of Cwmaman, 1940-44 and was ordained priest, 1941. He was curate of St. Michael's, Aberystwyth, 1944-46 and acted as chaplain to the Anglican students in the University College. In 1946, he was appointed lecturer in Philosophy at St. David's College, Lampeter, and became
TREVOR, Sir CHARLES GERALD (1882 - 1959), inspector of forests was prominent in the National Farmers' Union and all agricultural activities. For 17 years he served as a magistrate, and was High Sheriff of his county in 1941. In 1912 he married Enid Carroll Beadon and had three daughters. He died 20 May 1959.
VARRIER-JONES, PENDRILL CHARLES (1883 - 1941), physician great energy until his sudden death from a heart attack at Papworth Hall on 30 January 1941. After his death the work was continued, but as treatment of tuberculosis was transformed, the community developed into what is today the Royal Papworth Hospital.
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM HUBERT (1894 - 1959), railway guard and chairman of the Welsh Land Settlement Society council, 1927-48, served as mayor of Port Talbot, 1941, became a J.P. in 1949 and was Deputy Lieutenant for Glamorganshire, 1957. He took an active interest in politics, serving as secretary to the Aberavon Constituency Labour Party from 1934 till his death. From 1939 he became a member of the Glamorgan Agricultural Executive, and was a member of the Welsh National Forestry Committee from 1945. In 1948
VINCENT family also published (1903) the Memoirs of Sir Llewellyn Turner; but outside Wales he is better known as an editor of periodicals and a writer on topography. He died 18 July 1909. [ The second, (Sir) HUGH CORBET VINCENT, born 27 April 1862, knighted in 1924, died 22 February 1931, a Bangor solicitor, contested the Caernarvon division in 1910.] The youngest, (Sir) WILLIAM HENRY HOARE VINCENT (1866 - 1941
WADE, GEORGE WOOSUNG (1858 - 1941), cleric, professor, and author died at Monmouth on 15 October, 1941, and was buried there. As a teacher at St. David's College for over forty years, Wade exercised a lasting influence on generations of alumni of the College and through them on the Church in Wales. In his teaching he laid great emphasis on thoroughness, and on the unity of all knowledge. In a farewell message to his students he expressed the hope that they would
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant ) Mary Jane Jones of Llanfyllin, and had one son. In 1930 he was knighted and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Wales. Lady Watkins died in 1939, and in 1941 he married (2) Lil Bush (née Lewis). He died 5 May 1946. In addition to various articles and memoranda he published his autobiography in 1944 under the title A Welshman Remembers.
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Brazil. On 16 October 1939, he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Following completion of his basic training in Bodmin, he was sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit. On 17 May 1941, newly commissioned a second lieutenant into the Welch Regiment, he married (Margaret) Eirwen Evans, the elder daughter of John Rees Evans, a driver, and Kate Dilys (née Davies). They had a daughter, Mair
WATKINS, THOMAS ARWYN (1924 - 2003), Welsh scholar T. Arwyn Watkins was born 20 June 1924 in Llansamlet, a village on the outskirts of Swansea which was at that time largely Welsh-speaking, one of the two sons of David John Watkins, mine worker, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth. He was educated at Bishop Gore grammar school in Swansea, 1935-1941, and then at Swanseaa University College where he read English, French and Welsh. He took his degree in
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet obstinacy of belief (in poets, for example, as 'good') that in personal relationships made of him a kind of unorthodox saint. Vernon Watkins's volumes of poetry, exclusive of American editions and selections, were: Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941), The Lamp and the Veil (1945), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), The North Sea (translations from Heine) (1951), The Death Bell (1954), Cypress and Acacia (1959
WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician -racist after she was unable to eat in the same restaurant as Paul Robeson. From 1933 to 1939, she was a social worker with the unemployed and, to a lesser extent, a journalist. Her experience in social work led her to serve with the Women's Voluntary Service in Cardiff between 1939 and 1941 before she became a temporary civil servant as a Ministry of Labour welfare officer in South Wales. Eirene Jones

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