Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JOHNSON, AUBREY RODWAY (1901 - 1985), university professor and Hebrew scholar Aubrey R. Johnson was born in Leamington Spa 23 April 1901, the youngest of the five sons born to the Reverend Frances Johnson and his wife Beatrice May (née Bebb). Like his grandfather, his father was a Baptist minister. His oldest brother, Frank, was a sickly child, suffering from severe epilepsy, but Benjamin, Stanley, Harry and Aubrey were all healthy children. The father, however, suffered
JONES, FRANCES MÔN (1919 - 2000), harpist and teacher Frances Môn Jones was born on 20 October 1919 at Broughton near Wrexham, the daughter of David Charles Davies and his wife Mary Jane (née Goodwin). She was educated at the local school and Grove Park Grammar School in Wrexham, and mastered Welsh as a schoolgirl, in spite of not hearing the language at home. She began to play the organ at Pisgah chapel in Broughton at the age of 14, but a year
JONES, RICHARD LEWIS (1934 - 2009), poet and farmer Richard Jones, or Dic as he was known throughout Wales, was born on Good Friday, 30 March 1934 at Pen-y-graig, a smallholding near Tre'r-ddôl in North Cardiganshire. His mother, Frances Louisa (1910-1986) was one of the daughters of the Isaac family who farmed there. She qualified as a teacher and after taking up a post at Blaen-porth school she married a local farmer, Alban Lewis (Abba) Jones
JONES, ROBERT (1560 - 1615), priest, of the Society of Jesus , linking in close co-operation the recusant gentry, Welsh secular clergy and Welsh Jesuits, including Frs. Powell and Bennett. Money was provided through one of Fr. Jones's converts, lady Frances Morgan of Llantarnam, where he lived for long periods. The fund sufficed to maintain two Jesuits in North Wales and two in South Wales, and was later used by Frs. John Salusbury, S.J. and Charles Gwynne, S.J. to
JONES, WILLIAM BASIL (TICKELL) (1822 - 1897), bishop ), 10 September 1856, Frances Charlotte Holworthy, who died without issue 21 September 1881, and (2), 6 December 1886, Anne Loxdale, of Aigburth, near Liverpool, who, with a son and two daughters, survived him. He is buried in the family vault at Llangynfelyn. As bishop of S. Davids he continued and developed the work of his two predecessors, Thomas Burgess and Connop Thirlwall. He raised the standard
KEMBLE, CHARLES (1775 - 1854), actor Born 25 November 1775 at Brecon, eleventh child of Roger Kemble and Sarah Ward. The company of itinerant actors managed by his parents played on a circuit that is indicated by the birthplaces of their celebrated children: Sarah Siddons, born Brecon, 1755; JOHN PHILIP, born Prescott, 1757; STEPHEN, born Kington, 1758; FRANCES Twiss, born Hereford, 1759; ELIZABETH WHITLOCK, born Warrington, 1761
KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE (1809 - 1893), actress - see KEMBLE, CHARLES
LEWIS, TIMOTHY RICHARDS (1841 - 1886), surgeon, pathologist, and pioneer in tropical medicine continued to examine the problem. In April 1886 his name was recommended for election to a Fellowship of the Royal Society, but before the election he had fallen a victim to one of the microbes which he had so assiduously pursued. He died 7 May 1886, and was buried at Netley. He had married, 8 October 1879, Emily Frances (1860 - 1920), daughter of James Brown of Lewisham. His reports are classics in
LLOYD family Maesyfelin, . Bridget, daughter of Richard Leigh, mayor of Carmarthen in 1666, was the mother of the three children of Francis Lloyd (two sons, Lucius and Charles, and a daughter, Frances). Bridget married after Francis died (and not later than 1676) one John Farrington. Francis Lloyd was M.P. for Carmarthen from 9 March 1640 until he was 'disabled' from sitting, 5 February 1644. An active Royalist like his father
LLOYD family Rhiwaedog, Rhiwedog, surviving Iles sister died in 1832, having bequeathed the property to Frances (daughter of John Lloyd of Berth and Rhagatt), wife of Richard Watkin Price, of Rhiwlas, also in the parish of Llanfor. The family, in the course of the centuries, provided Merioneth with a number of sheriffs. Of these the first may have been EINION (EIGNION) Ap ITHEL AP GWRGENEU, ' Esquire of the Body of John of Gaunt,' Duke of
LLOYD GEORGE, DAVID (the first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor), (1863 - 1945), statesman - 1968), Mair Eluned (1890 - 1907), Olwen Elizabeth (1892 - 1990) (who married Sir Thomas John Carey Evans), Gwilym (1894 - 1967), and Megan (1902 - 1966), (2) 23 October 1943, Frances Louise, daughter of John Stevenson of Wallington, Surrey, his long-serving personal assistant and companion.
LLOYD, DAVID TECWYN (1914 - 1992), literary critic, author, educationalist the publishing company. Tecwyn Lloyd contributed many articles and snippets to Y Cymro, mostly of the character of a magazine rather than of a newspaper. By now he had married Frances Killen who came from the Wolverhampton area, a lady of staunch English stock. It was she who became Welsh, rather than Tecwyn becoming English. After five years of journalism it was time, he felt, to return to adult

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