Dictionary of Welsh Biography

HERBERT, EDWARD (1583 - 1648), 1st baron Herbert of Cherbury falling to the Parliamentarians, Herbert moved to London and died there 20 August 1648. A handsome, vain, sensitive man, a bold and profound thinker, Edward Herbert was a strange mixture of philosopher and buffoon. His is a rich personality moulded by an age of transition from the activity of the Elizabethan age to the rationalism of the late Stuart period. His De Veritate, 1624, bridges the gulf
RENDEL, STUART (1st baron Rendel), (1834 - 1913), industrialist, Member of Parliament, and philanthropist
WILLIAMS, RICHARD (1835 - 1906), antiquary and lawyer the rest of his life. He was twice married (1) to Frances Brown, and (2) to Elizabeth Lewis of Rhyl. He was a faithful elder at 'Crescent' chapel. He held a number of public appointments and was the agent for the Liberal candidate, Stuart Rendel, when the latter was elected Member of Parliament in 1880 - the first Liberal member for the county of Montgomery. He published Montgomeryshire Worthies
HAMER, Sir GEORGE FREDERICK (1885 - 1965), industrialist and public figure Kt., cr. 1955; C.B.E. 1948; Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and Custos Rotulorum 1950-60; born 19 March 1885, son of Edward and Martha Hamer (née Matthews), Summerfield Park, Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire; married Sybil Dorothy Vaughan Owen (High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire 1958), 3rd daughter of Dr. John Vaughan Owen and Emma Wigley Owen (née Davies), at St. Idloes parish church, Llanidloes on 1
OWEN, GWILYM (1880 - 1940), physicist research work under Sir J. J. Thomson in the Cavendish laboratory; he graduated at Cambridge in 1905. He was then appointed lecturer in physics at Liverpool, remaining there till 1913, when he became professor at Auckland, New Zealand. He served with the New Zealand forces in the 1914-19 war; in 1919 he was appointed professor of physics at Aberystwyth. When principal Sir Henry Stuart Jones retired early
VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Born 27 July 1870 at Penmorfa, Llangoedmor, Cardiganshire, eldest son of John Vaughan and Julia Ann (Morris). He was educated at Clifton College and at Keble College, Oxford, where he graduated. Having private means he was able from his early youth to pursue his interests in the study of history and literature, and in authorship. He produced and published over a dozen books, besides articles
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, people' was his son, REES WILLIAMS, who died 9 November 1863; his burial service was conducted in Welsh, and memorial services were held in every chapel in the neighbourhood - the Baptist minister, T. E. James, published a sermon on the occasion, together with an elegy. His successor was his brother, MORGAN STUART WILLIAMS, born 1846, died 13 December 1909. He bought S. Donats castle; but after the
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
MORGAN, GEORGE OSBORNE (1826 - 1897), politician Son of the Rev. Morgan Morgan, vicar of Conway from 1838 to 1870 (and a son of David Morgan, Llanfihangel-Geneu'r-Glyn and his wife Avarina Richards, a member of Ffos-y-bleiddiaid family (see under Vaughan Lloyd), and Fanny Nonnen daughter of John Nonnen, Gothenburg, Sweden. He was born 8 May 1826 at Gothenburg, where his father was a chaplain. Educated at Friars school, Bangor, Shrewsbury school
JEFFREYS-JONES, THOMAS IEUAN (1909 - 1967), scholar, lecturer, and warden of Coleg Harlech Economics and again in 1933 with honours (upper second class) in History. At college he won the Cobden and Gladstone prizes and was awarded a research scholarship to study the agriculture of Wales in the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1936 he obtained an M.A. degree for his thesis, ' The enclosure movement in South Wales during the Tudor and early Stuart periods ', part of which was published in Harlech
OWEN family Plas-du, claims to the English throne. He is last heard of (7 February 1604) bitterly inveighing against the results of the Stuart succession. A still younger brother, JOHN OWEN, also studied at Douai.
PARRY, Sir THOMAS (d. 1560), courtier was made a privy councillor, chancellor of the Duchy, and master of the Court of Wards, and for nine months in 1610-11 he was the custodian of Arabella Stuart; but his 'management' of the Stockbridge election to the Addled Parliament (1614) brought on him the censures of the Commons (not least of the Welsh members, zealous for their country's good name) and the loss of his seat and post. He was

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