Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, STEPHEN WILLIAM (1837 - 1899), engineer, architect, and antiquary of the Elan Valley reservoir. He soon joined the Cambrian Archaeological Association, but the first of his long series of papers in Archæologia Cambrensis (this was on Castell Collen) did not appear until 1870; he was F.S.A. He became a considerable authority on the old Welsh monasteries - Talley, Strata Marcella, Cwm Hir, and above all, Strata Florida, the subject of his only book, The Cistercian
LEWIS LLOYD, EMMELINE (1827 - 1913), one of the first women to climb in the Alps Born 18 November 1827, second daughter of Thomas Lewis Lloyd of Nantgwyllt (the manor house in Elan valley where Shelley stayed in 1812 but which is now under the waters of the Caban Coch reservoir) and his wife Anna Eliza Davies, the daughter of Treforgan near Cardigan. After leaving home, Emmeline farmed and bred mountain ponies at Llandyfaelog Fach near Brecon. With her enthusiasm for fishing
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor he made such an impression that he was paid at the 3rd-year rate at the end of the first year. He worked as a builder in Swansea and the Swansea valley, on the Elan and Clee reservoirs and in Birmingham. He learned French, German and Italian at evening classes. He spent a year in Crookley and used to walk the 4 miles to evening classes in Kidderminster. He gained the first prize in French under F.E

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