Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WINTER, CHARLES (1700 - 1773), Arminian Baptist minister Son of Francis Winter, a well-to-do farmer of Bedwellty, Glamorganshire, was apprenticed to a surgeon-apothecary at Newport, Monmouth, but returned home, joined the Baptist church at Hengoed, began preaching, and entered Carmarthen Academy under Perrott. He was there led to accept Arminian doctrines. Others at Hengoed tended to the same way, notably Rees David and Jacob Isaac. After a heated
WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper to develop what had already become his life-long interest. He was contemporary of David Lloyd Isaac, vicar of Llangamarch and author, eventually purchasing all of his MS works and notes. He was nominated by Egerton G.B. Phillimore and became a member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Wooding corresponded with Morris Davies of Bangor, a noted hymnologist and musician, and he became a
WYNN family Bodewryd, of the latter, was ringild of Lliwon in 1451, and was alive in 1467. His son, RHYS, was living in Llechgynfarwy in 1497, and married Agnes, daughter of Nicholas ab Ellis, archdeacon of Anglesey and rector of Llaneilian. Rhys was alive in 1510. His son, DAVID AP RHYS AP LLEWELYN, was one of the pillars of society in Anglesey in the first half of the 16th century. It was he, in 1521, who purchased
WYNN family Wynnstay, boast of his friendship with people like Sir Joshua Reynolds, the artist, and David Garrick, the actor. He contributed generously to the Welsh school in London and started two schools of his own in the parish of Ruabon; he was the second ' Chief President ' of the Cymmrodorion Society (Cymm., 1951, 56-7). In the course of his childhood, his mother added to the extent of the Wynnstay property by
WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator Born c. 1669, son of Griffith Wynn, Mallwyd - he was 20 years old when he matriculated, 2 July 1689, at Oxford, as from Oriel College (he graduated in 1693). He is remembered as the translator into Welsh of a work by Jeremy Taylor, Contemplations of the state of man in this life and in that which is to come, which was published at Chester by Roger Adams under the title of Ystyriaethau ar gyflwr
WYNNE family Voelas, chaplain to cardinal Wolsey, he was the father of Elis ap Rhys, i.e. Dr. Elis Prys (see also Vaughan family, Pant Glas). Their eldest son, MAURICE GETHIN, steward of the abbey of Aberconway, married Ann, daughter of David Myddelton ' Hen,' Gwenynog, receiver-general for North Wales in the time of Edward IV, and had a large family, the heir being CADWALADR WYNNE I, high sheriff of Denbighshire, 1548, who
WYNNE, DAVID (1900 - 1983), composer David Wynne was born at Nantmoch Uchaf farm, Penderyn, Breconshire, on 2 June 1900, the son of Philip Thomas (born 1872) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thomas, born 1877). He was christened David William Thomas, and later adopted the name David Wynne for his musical career. In 1901 the family moved to Llanfabon, Glamorgan, where his father found work in the Albion colliery in Cilfynydd. David
WYNNE, WILLIAM (1671? - 1704), historian 1704. At Oxford, he was one of the circle of Edward Lhuyd. In 1697, he published a History of Wales - really a working-over of the Historie of Cambria (1584) of David Powel; it was reprinted (unaltered) in 1702, again (with some changes) in 1774 and 1812, and finally in 1832 (with topographical notes by Richard Llwyd of Llannerch Brochwel). Its merits are slight, but it remained for well-nigh two
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, This ancient Denbighshire family was descended from Osbwrn Wyddel of Cors-y-gedol, Meironnydd, ancestor of the Vaughans of that place through the marriage of Osbwrn's great-great-grandson Elise with the heiress of Allt Llwyn Dragon, later Plâs yn Iâl. His grandson THOMAS YALE (c. 1526 - 1577), ecclesiastical lawyer Law Religion Third son of David Lloyd (Yale) by Gwenhwyfar Lloyd of Llwyn-y-maen
YALE, DAVID (d. 1626), chancellor of Chester - see YALE
YATES, WILFRID NIGEL (1944 - 2009), archivist and historian the ten volumes commissioned by the project. An exhibition 'Crown and Mitre: Religion and Society in Northern Europe since the Reformation' was an early recipient of European Funding in 1992 and toured internationally. He took early retirement from Kent County Council in 1994. In 1967 he had married Paula Gülen Du Val (b. 1947), with whom he had four children, Helena, Patrick, David and Benedict
YOUNG, DAVID (1844 - 1913), Wesleyan minister and historian

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