Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Stafford where he formed a string orchestra known as Stafford Strings. In 1936 he was appointed a Schools Inspector for music for the whole of Wales, and moved to Swansea, where he lived for the rest of his life. There he conducted the Festival Orchestra and after 1939 the Welsh Philharmonic Orchestra. During the Second World War he organised concerts for London artists in all parts of Wales. In 1943 he
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure elected president of the Welsh Textile Manufacturing Association. From 1925 to 1935 he was a valued member of the Court of the University of Wales and especially of the University's committee to promote the interests of the ailing woollen industry. In 1943 he was elected chairman of the North Wales Industrial Development Council. He was very prominent in local government. In 1905 he was elected to
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge , and a son, Rhodri. While the forces were being trained for the invasion of Europe, Watkins was posted in August 1943 as an instructor in the Rifle wing of the Advanced Handling and Fieldcraft school near Llanberis, Caernarfonshire. After the invasion of Europe in June 1944, he was posted to 103 Reinforcement Group in Normandy and on 25 July 1944 he joined 1st/5th Battalion of the Welch Regiment, a
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
WHITEHEAD, LEWIS STANLEY (1889 - 1956), secretary of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales , Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and secretary of the new Representative Body of the Church in Wales, whom he succeeded in 1935. Somewhat autocratic, like Frank Morgan, for his position gave him considerable power in administrative matters, he steered the Church in Wales through the difficult years of World War II and led a successful legal action against the Tithe Redemption Commission, 1943-44. He
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, of North Wales and sheriff of Caernarfonshire Public and Social Service, Civil Administration On the death of archbishop John Williams in 1650, the joint estates passed to his nephew, Griffith Williams (died 1663), son of Robert Williams of Conway (died before 1613; see Penrhyn MSS. no. 420; for difficulties relating to his inheritance see Cal. Wyn Papers, nos. 1943-6, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2017
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1878 - 1968), minister (Meth.) and author seven years. He retired from full-time work and became a supernumerary in 1943, making his home at Prestatyn, but returned to the regular ministry in 1948, and was superintendent of the Llangollen circuit for a year, retiring again and living there until he moved to Old Colwyn in 1952. He was a gifted and popular preacher and in 1934 published Gwerslyfr ar Efengyl Marc. In addition to his considerable
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD JOHN (1890 - 1963), politician unfailingly sympathetic towards those suffering poverty and hardship. Williams was elected M.P. (Lab.) for the Ogmore constituency in 1931 as successor to Vernon Hartshorn. He was parliamentary private secretary to the under-secretary for the Colonies, 1940-41, to the financial secretary to the Admiralty, 1942-43, and to the parliamentary under-secretary of state for foreign affairs, 1943-45. He served as
WILLIAMS, ERNEST LLWYD (1906 - 1960), minister (B), poet and writer regularly sought at Baptist assemblies. He delivered an address (in Welsh) on ' This ministry ' at the Assembly of the Baptist Union of Wales in 1943. It was mainly his poetical works that brought him into prominence - his winning poems at the national eisteddfod, particularly his awdl ' Y Ffordd ' in 1953 and pryddest ' Y Bannau ' in 1954. He published Cerddi'r Plant (1936), with Waldo Williams; and a
WILLIAMS, EVAN JAMES (1903 - 1945), scientist engaged in scientific research in connection with the armed forces. He was elected F.R.S. in 1939. He was a scientific officer at the Royal Air Force establishment at Farnborough, 1939-41, director of research for the R.A.F. Coastal Command, 1941-42, scientific adviser to the Navy on methods of combating submarines, 1943-44, and assistant director of research in the Navy, 1944-45. He died 29 September
WILLIAMS, Sir GEORGE CLARK (1878 - 1958), BARONET and county court judge retired in 1950. He was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (Lib.) for the Llanelli constituency in 1922 and he did not take further part in politics. He was Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 1949-53. He was a member of the council of the University College, Swansea, from 1943 until his death, and vice-president of the college for the last two years of his life. The University of Wales conferred
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter immersed himself in the events of the Spanish Civil War and empathized with the struggles of socialists and communists on the Continent. In 1943 he won an open scholarship to read History at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, but the demands of war took him instead to the battlefields of Europe. His experiences in a variety of war zones enliven the pages of his autobiographical sketch Fishers

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