Dictionary of Welsh Biography

JEFFREYS, JUSTINA (1787 - 1869), gentlewoman of King Charles I was published in Latin in 1649, provoking a response from John Milton. Retired on the income of his wife's estate, Edward Scott followed intellectual pursuits, rejecting Anglican doctrine in favour of Unitarianism and corresponding with James Mill and his son John Stuart Mill, the Welsh lexicographer and antiquary William Owen Pughe (who gave him Welsh lessons) and the satirical
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OGWEN (1924 - 1969), archivist, university professor lost contact with original archives his grasp as a historian slackened it is to be regretted that he did not seriously take up again the task of studying the Gwynedd gentry. He had a very important contribution to make in that field as his article, ' The Anglesey gentry as business men in Tudor and Stuart times ' (Transactions of the Anglesey Antiquarian Society, 1948) suggests. His family background
DILLWYN family by 1800 (Theophilus Jones, History of the County of Brecknock, 3rd ed., iii, 65 - but the statement there that the poet Ieuan Deulwyn was of this family cannot stand). Of the remainder, who retained their name, a WILLIAM DILLWYN, a Quaker, emigrated to Pennsylvania c. 1699 (History of the County of Brecknock 70). His son, JOHN DILLWYN, had a son WILLIAM DILLWYN (1743? - 1824), who returned from
JONES, SARAH RHIANNON DAVIES (1921 - 2014), author and lecturer -health and failing eyesight, her last volume was published, Cydio Mewn Cwilsyn, in which she returns to the diary format, the imaginary diary of Elizabeth Prys, daughter-in-law of Archdeacon Edmwnd Prys from the Stuart period. That volume also contains a number of autobiographical essays noting some of the influences on her work. Rhiannon Davies Jones was an inspiring teacher and lecturer, and her
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter He was born at 11 Lower Row, Pen-y-wern, Dowlais, Glamorgan, on 30 September 1925. He was one of three children born to Thomas John Williams (1892-1971) and Gwladys Williams née Morgan (1896-1983), both of whom were schoolteachers. His roots were deep in the iron-making town and he took pride in being the archetypal 'bachgen bach o Ddowlais' (little boy from Dowlais). The house where he was
EVANS, JOHN JOHN (1862 - 1942), journalist
POWELL, JOHN Three men of this name are connected with religious movements in North Monmouthshire in the first half of the 18th century; as there is a tendency to confound them it seems better to discuss them together: (1) JOHN POWELL (1708 - 1795), Methodist cleric Religion, a Brecknock man, priested at Hereford 20 December 1735 on a title given by the rector of Llanwenarth. He was curate of Aberystruth
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, of further honours, is still sub judice (see Dodd, Studies in Stuart Wales, 90-99, and authorities cited, p. 92 n.), but the earldom was certainly conferred informally early in 1645, when he was instructed to negotiate with the Confederate Catholics. He and his brother lord John Somerset crossed to Ireland in June, when he speedily secured the promise of military help (treaties of 25 August, 3
HERBERT family Jane to her husband John Stuart (heir of George III's prime minister, the earl of Bute), who was created baron Cardiff of Cardiff castle (20 May 1776), succeeded to the earldom in 1792 and became earl of Windsor and marquis of Bute in 1796; hence the territorial, political and industrial influence in the area of succeeding marquises (see the article Bute). But the immediate successors to the primacy
SALUSBURY, JOHN (1575 - 1625), Jesuit and scholar
DAVIES, JOHN (John Davies, Taihirion; 1825 - 1904), Welsh Independent minister , Efail Isaf. Although John Davies was a prominent member of his denomination and one of the directors of the London Missionary Society, his influence was felt principally in his own region and he was known as Esgob y Fro (the bishop of the community). He was active in promoting education and mainly due to his efforts, a British school was set up at Llantwit Fardre and he was for many years a member of
WILLIAMS, RAYMOND HENRY (1921 - 1988), lecturer, writer and cultural critic (collected by John McIlroy and Sallie Westwood as Border Country: Raymond Williams in Adult Education (1993)) testify to the extent to which he drew on his work as extra-mural educator in the creation of his career-making volume Culture and Society (1958). A dissection of the meaning of 'culture' in English thought since industrialisation, the volume is widely identified as a progenitor for contemporary

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