Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TURNER, MERFYN LLOYD (1915 - 1991), social reformer and author Merfyn Turner was born in Penygraig, Rhondda on 20 October 1915 to Edward Godfrey Turner and his wife Lizzie Violet Turner (née Lloyd). He had one brother, Rhiwallon, and two sisters, Beryl and Corriswen. The family moved around Wales during his childhood due to his father's vocation as a Wesleyan minister, and he attended a number of different schools. He studied for an arts degree at
TURNOR, DAVID (1751? - 1799), cleric and agriculturist earl of Cawdor, rector of Rudbaxton, 1790-7, rural dean of Dungleddy, 1795, vicar of Penrhyn, 1796-9, and rector of Manordivy, 1797-9. He was a magistrate in Cardiganshire and one of the founders of the Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture and Industry in the county, 1790, taking particular interest in land drainage and plantation. With Thomas Lloyd of Bronwydd he was author of A General View
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army ., in North Wales. He was appointed Member of Parliament for Anglesey in Cromwell ' Parliaments of 1654 and 1656 as well as in the Parliament of 1659. At the Restoration he settled at Lleuar, and it does not appear that he was disturbed for his activities during the Interregnum. He died 12 May 1667, and was buried at Clynnog, where his tomb is still preserved. His wife died in 1676. Their son, GEORGE
VAUGHAN family Clyro, This branch of the Vaughan family was founded by ROGER VAUGHAN I, third son of Thomas ap Roger Vaughan of Hergest. His wife was Jane, daughter of David ap Morgan ap John ap Philip. Their heir was ROGER VAUGHAN II, who married Margaret, daughter of Rhys ap Gwilym ap Llewelyn ap Meyrick. It is possible that he was the commissioner of tenths of spiritualties in Radnorshire in January 1535. He had at
VAUGHAN family Courtfield, - Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Jones of Llanarth. A 1718 parliamentary survey of lands of Papists valued his estates in four neighbouring counties at £996. Two of his sons, RICHARD VAUGHAN and WILLIAM VAUGHAN were actively associated with the Jacobites. Both joined the young Pretender (as also did their acquaintance David Thomas Morgan), fought at Culloden, and fled to Spain after the final defeat of
VAUGHAN family Golden Grove, brought against him of ill-treatment of his servants and tenants at Dryslwyn. He died 3 December 1686. He married (1) Bridget, daughter of Thomas Lloyd, Llanllyr, Cardiganshire, (2) Frances, daughter of Sir John Altham, Oxhey, Hertfordshire, and (3) lady Alice Egerton, daughter of John, 1st earl of Bridgwater. His surviving children were by his second wife. FRANCIS VAUGHAN, the eldest son, was Member of
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, ANN VAUGHAN, who married David Jones Gwynne, of Taliaris, Carmarthenshire She, the last heir in the direct line, died 16 March 1758, leaving no issue. The last male representative was EVAN LLOYD VAUGHAN, Member of Parliament for Merioneth, brother to William Vaughan. Upon the death of Evan Lloyd Vaughan on 4 December 1791, Corsygedol and the associated estates passed to his niece, Margaret, wife of
VAUGHAN family Bredwardine, Gorred. At least fifteen children are ascribed to him. Mention must be made of the second son, WILLIAM VAUGHAN of Rhydhelig, of whom Dr. John David Rhys reports that a family tradition maintained that it was he who slew the earl of Warwick when the kingmaker was stealthily escaping from Barnet field, 1471. He was regarded as a champion in the field of battle with no one to equal him, after the death of
VAUGHAN family Porthaml, , 5 June 1561. He was Member of Parliament for Brecknockshire, 1553-62, when he was succeeded by his son Rowland Vaughan, and again in 1571. In the meantime he had represented the borough of Brecon, 1562-7. He died before 31 March 1585 when administration of his estate was granted. He left several children by his wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir George Herbert of Swansea. The eldest, Watkin, died
VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington an allusion by Guto'r Glyn, believed that he fell in a preliminary skirmish on Monday, 23 (recte 24) July. From Lewis Glyn Cothi's elegies upon his death it could be argued that he fell in the main battle on the 26th, and there was a tradition in the family in the time of Dr. John David Rhys that he, and not Sir Richard Herbert, was the hero of that battle. His body was brought home for burial at
VAUGHAN, EDWARD (d. 1661), Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple A fairly exhaustive account of his career is given by Rees L. Lloyd; what follows here is only a summary. He was the fourth son of Owen Vaughan, Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire and Catherine, sole heiress of Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn. Like his three brothers, John Vaughan, Sir Robert Vaughan, and Roger Vaughan, he became a member of the Inner Temple, being admitted 12 November 1618 (but was not
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect collaborated with academic staff from the medical school in preparing a memorandum, 'Proposed completion of the Medical School', for meetings with representatives of the University of Wales and the Treasury led by David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, in the spring of 1914. At one of these meetings Bruce Vaughan revealed the intention of Sir William James Thomas to increase his beneficence to the

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