Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Millingchamp; on Millingchamp and the MSS. see his 'Life and Letters of the Venerable Benjamin Millingchamp' (now NLW MSS 13915-13916B) and H. Ethé, N.L.W. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts (1916). He was an authority on bookplates, helping to catalogue the Sir Evan Davies Jones collection and cataloguing for the National Library (1938) the Aneurin Williams collection. During his sojourn in Italy he had
THOMPSON, DAVID (1770 - 1857), colonial surveyor and explorer in British North America influence of the company's surveyor, Philip Turnor, who taught him the elements of astronomy and of triangulation. Surveying and exploration now became his passion, despite the company's disapproval; he learned several Indigenous languages, and 'with Bible and sextant in hand' (he was also an aggressive 'teetotaller') he diligently explored and mapped. With two Ojibwe guides, he surveyed a shorter route
CRAWLEY, RICHARD (1840 - 1893), scholar Born at Bryngwyn near Raglan, Monmouthshire, 26 December 1840, son of William Crawley, archdeacon of Monmouth, and of Gertrude, third daughter of Sir Love Jones Parry of Madryn. He was a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. His career and works (the chief of which was the translation of Thucydides, now included in ' Everyman's Library') are noticed by Sidney Lee in the D.N.B., First Supplement
TYDECHO (fl. 6th century), Celtic saint parishes of Mawddwy with allusions to a famous miracle, said to have been performed by the saint locally. All that can now be said about Tydecho with any certainty is that the distribution of the churches that still bear his name conforms to the tradition that he, with many companions, arrived on the Merioneth coast by sea and then proceeded inland to settle in the Mawddwy region and the whole area that
GIBBON, BENJAMIN PHELPS (1802 - 1851), line-engraver Son of Benjamin Gibbon, vicar of Penally, Pembrokeshire, and Jane his wife, was born in 1802. He was educated at the Clergy Orphan school and learned engraving under Edward Scriven and J. H. Robinson. He engraved several works after Edwin Landseer and among his engraved portraits is one of queen Victoria after William Fowler. A delicacy of touch distinguished his works, but they are not now much
BROWN, MIA ARNESBY (1867 - 1931), artist is now in the National Museum of Wales. She married, 1896, Sir John Arnesby Brown, R.A., artist. She died in 1931, aged 64.
THOMAS, HUGH (1673 - 1720), herald and antiquary antiquarian research at an early age. About 1698 he wrote a dissertation on the history of Brecknock (the manuscript is now in the Bodleian Library, while a copy, probably incomplete, is in the National Library of Wales - NLW MS 777B) which was used and quoted from by Theophilus Jones; he also compiled a large collection of genealogies (also used to some extent by Theophilus Jones) which is now among the
PRICE, JOHN (1600? - 1676), classical scholar and divine Ireland with the earl of Strafford, and became the friend of archbishop Ussher. During the Civil War he wrote some pamphlets, the titles of which are not now known, in the Royalist interest, and in consequence suffered imprisonment. After his release he returned to the Continent, and about 1652 settled at Florence, where the grand duke Ferdinand II made him his keeper of medals and afterwards gave him
LLOYD, EVAN (1764 - 1847), Unitarian Baptist minister became an Arminian, and left; his own statement (recorded by his son in Yr Ymofynydd, loc. cit.) says that he refused to sign the Particular Baptist confession as a condition of financial help from the Baptist Fund. He now joined the General Baptist cause of ' Ty Coch ' in Cardigan town and (again on his own testimony, loc. cit.) became pastor there and at Zoan (Pembrokeshire) - some have doubted this
ELLIS, ROWLAND (1650 - 1731), Welsh-American Quaker and his family over to make a settlement. On 16 October 1686, together with his son Rowland and about 100 of his neighbours, he sailed from Milford Haven to Pennsylvania. He arrived in Philadelphia in April 1687, and settled at Bryn Mawr, now Lower Merion. After making arrangements to make this place his new home he returned to Wales in 1688 and, later, returned again to Pennsylvania with the
WATKINS, WILLIAM (fl. 1750-1762), cleric in Breconshire and author of the first published book on trees of Wales. He is on record as a pensioner at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from June 1750 to 1754, but he regularly signed the registers of Hay as a curate assisting an absent vicar during 1750-52. He left Hay soon after his wife and daughter died there of smallpox in 1752, and published A Treatise on Forest-Trees (London, 1753), which is now a very rare book. In
LEWIS, WILLIAM BEVAN (1847 - 1929), alienist , he was connected with what has now become the University of Leeds, and latterly was professor of mental diseases there. He died 14 October 1929.

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