Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN family Hergest, Kington Gethin, daughter of Dafydd ap Cadwgan ap Phylip Dorddu, one of the Vaughans of Tyle Glas. The earliest record of him is that he was constable of the castle of Huntingdon (some two miles from Hergest) in 1422. He was receiver of the three lordships of Brecknock, Hay, and Huntingdon in 1453-4. At the Coventry Parliament of 1457, he was granted a general pardon, with others of his kinsmen and neighbours
THOMAS, Sir DANIEL (LLEUFER) (1863 - 1940), stipendiary magistrate to read for the Bar. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn on 15 May 1889. He joined the South Wales circuit, holding his first brief at the Carmarthen assizes on 10 December 1889. He married, 18 June 1892, at S. Pancras church, Mary Gethin of Aberdare, a great-grand-daughter of Tomos Glyn Cothi. In 1891 he began contributing to the Dictionary of National Biography, having been introduced to
STEPHENS, THOMAS (Casnodyn, Gwrnerth, Caradawg; 1821 - 1875), historian and social reformer at an explosion at the Crawshay Gethin Pit No. 2 in 1862, he instigated a relief fund, and collected and distributed money until the day before he died. He was a close friend of and political campaigner for H. A. Bruce, Lord Aberdare, Liberal MP for Merthyr Tydfil between 1852 and 1868, and served as High Constable of Merthyr in 1858. Thomas Stephens's talent and style as a social critic and
GETHIN - see JONES, OWEN GETHIN
GETHIN, MAURICE, steward of Aberconwy abbey - see WYNNE
GETHIN DULAIS - see DAVIES, GETHIN
HYWEL GETHIN - see HYWEL GETHIN
GRUFFUDD LLWYD ap GRONW GETHIN - see GRUFFUDD ap GRONW GETHIN
OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN MORGAN - see MORGAN-OWEN, LLEWELLYN ISAAC GETHIN

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