Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIS-BUND, JOHN WILLIAM (1843 - 1928), writer on the history of the Welsh Church be 'dubious and prejudiced,' and by Sir J. E. Lloyd to be 'very haphazard.'
WILSON, JOHN (1626 - c.1695/6), playwright . He was arrested by Plymouth corporation when the Civil War broke out and was sent prisoner to Portsmouth. He fell sick there, but died at Exeter, 4 July 1643. His son, JOHN WILSON, entered Exeter College, 5 April 1644, went to Lincoln's Inn in 1646, and was called to the Bar, 10 November 1652. He, too, was a fervent Royalist, and was appointed recorder of Londonderry on 20 December 1666; like his
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor
WOGAN family 15th century HENRY WOGAN of Milton, son of Sir John Wogan of Wiston, married Margaret Dyer of Boulston, and from this union the Wogans of Boulston were descended. JOHN WOGAN, son of Richard Wogan of Boulston by his wife Matilda, daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips of Cil-sant, was sheriff for Pembrokeshire in 1566, 1574, 1584, and 1598? and Member of Parliament for the county in 1545-7, 1553 (Williams
WOOD family, Welsh gipsies Pleser a Gofid ' Sal o'r Sowth ' claims that she is related to Abram Wood. Secondly, for nearly two centuries this tribe provided Wales with a remarkable line of harpists. The principal source of the history of the tribe is the Journal of the Gipsy Lore Society (see under ' Wood ' in the 'Names' section of the indexes to the various volumes), and above all the articles contributed by John Sampson (1862
WOODING, DAVID LEWIS (1828 - 1891), genealogist, historian, bibliophile and shopkeeper to develop what had already become his life-long interest. He was contemporary of David Lloyd Isaac, vicar of Llangamarch and author, eventually purchasing all of his MS works and notes. He was nominated by Egerton G.B. Phillimore and became a member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Wooding corresponded with Morris Davies of Bangor, a noted hymnologist and musician, and he became a
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player Wilfred Wooller was born at Wentworth, Church Road, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbighshire, on 20 November 1912, the son of Wilfred Wooller, builder and contractor, and his wife Ethel (née Johnson, died 1924). He was educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, Rydal School and Christ's College, Cambridge. He married 1) Gillian Windsor-Clive (1922-1961) of St. Fagans Castle in 1941, divorced in 1946
WOTTON, WILLIAM (1666 - 1727), cleric and scholar Suffolk 13 August 1666, and died in Essex 13 February 1726/7. He did, however, have some Welsh associations. In 1680 he made the acquaintance of bishop William Lloyd of S. Asaph, and from 1691 until his death, held the sinecure living of Llandrillo-yn-Rhos - his residential living being Middleton Keynes near Bletchley, Buckinghamshire. In 1714, owing to financial difficulties, he retired to Wales, where
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician became a Companion of the Bath in 1903 and served as lieutenant colonel in the Glamorganshire Imperial Yeomanry. Wyndham-Quin was elected M.P. (Con.) for South Glamorgan in 1895 when he defeated A.J. Williams, and he continued to represent this division in parliament until 1906 when he lost his seat to William Brace. As a politician, he was extremely well-mannered and courteous. He served as High
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author cause of Dunraven's later years. He helped to secure the passage of the Irish Land Act in 1903 and the following year joined with other moderate Unionist landlords in the Irish Reform Association to suggest, unsuccessfully, a new scheme for Irish devolution. In December 1921 he seconded John Morley in replying to the King's Speech announcing the setting up of the Irish Free State. He did not, however
WYNN family Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa bishop, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Morgan, bishop of Bangor, left two daughters, ANN (died 1 January 1699/1700), and MARGARET (died 1759). The latter married John Lloyd, barrister-at-law, son of William Lloyd, bishop of Norwich. ANNA LLOYD, the issue of the marriage between Margaret and John Lloyd, died unmarried in 1784, leaving the property to her father's brother, admiral Lloyd, of
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, , but probably there was no mansion house at Glyn at so early a period ' (Wynne, op. cit.). JOHN AP IEUAN, the heir of this marriage, and described as of Glyn, was living on 27 November 1545. His son, ROBERT WYN AP JOHN (died 1589), married (probably in 1544) Katherine, daughter of Ellis ap Maurice of Clenennau, Caernarfonshire, and was the father of MAURICE AP ROBERT WYNNE (died between 9 February

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