Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TURNBULL, MAURICE JOSEPH LAWSON (1906 - 1944), cricketer and rugby player season. He also played hockey and squash for Wales and, one of the founders of the Cardiff Squash Rackets Club, won the squash rackets championship of South Wales. Maurice Turnbull served in the Welsh Guards in the Second World War. A major in the First Battalion he was killed near the village of Montchamp on 5 August 1944 whilst leading a small group during a German counter-attack following the D-Day
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Neigwl on the Llŷn Peninsula, on the former Penyberth estate. The action for which Lewis Valentine is primarily remembered is his part in the burning of the Bombing School with Saunders Lewis and D. J. Williams on 8 September 1936. His nationalist and pacifist ideals converged in a symbolic act which inspired many nationalists over the subsequent decades. Valentine was the 'Mr X' who brought the issue
VAUGHAN family Corsygedol, dros Rich: Vnô Gorsygedol i ofyn 100 o gywydde D[afydd] ap G[wilym].' That some of the Vaughans collected manuscripts and books is an established fact. The following manuscripts, formerly at Mostyn Hall, Flintshire, but now in the National Library of Wales, were at Corsygedol - NLW MS 3034B, NLW MS 3038B, NLW MS 3039B, NLW MS 3047C ('Llyfr Coch Nannau'), NLW MS 3048D ('Llyfr Gwyn Corsygedol'), NLW MS
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Bruce Vaughan was born 6 March 1856 at Frederick Street, Cardiff, the youngest of the four children of Thomas Vaughan, sailor and tailor, and his wife Jane Agnes Gribble (née Davies). Educated at a private school in Charles Street, Cardiff, Bruce Vaughan became articled to W D Blessley, a prominent local architect, and attended the Cardiff Science and Arts Schools, winning the medal of the
VAUGHAN, JOHN (d. 1824), artist and violinist A native of Conway. W. D. Leathart says that he used to play the violin to the accompaniment of the harp at some of the meetings of the Gwyneddigion Society of London, c. 1776. It was he who painted the portrait of Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr), which used to hang in the rooms of the Society. He died in 1824 at a great age. His brother, WILLIAM VAUGHAN, described by Leathart as a native of Conway, was
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge under Theophilus Field) the manuscript of the ' Book of Llandaff ' and lent it to Robert Vaughan, Hengwrt, to transcribe (see E. D. Jones in N.L.W. Jnl., iv, 123). In one of his most noteworthy opinions, he held that the West-minister courts could not issue final process into Wales (Reports, 395). His authority was sufficient to safeguard the Welsh courts for a period. He based his argument on the
WATKINS, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister believed to have been born in Llangynidr, Brecknock - he was one of the trustees of the first Baptist meeting-house at that place in 1794 (D. Jones, Bed. Deheubarth, 655), and he may have been the son of the Howell Watkins, at whose house the Baptists used previously to meet (op. cit., 811). But the Llangynidr Baptists were formally members at Llanwenarth, and it was there that Joshua Watkins was
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge to stand as a parliamentary candidate and he lost interest in any active involvement in politics. On completion of his pupillage to Griffith Owen George in the chambers of D Morgan Evans in Cardiff, he joined those chambers. He quickly developed a wide-ranging and very successful practice on the Wales & Chester Circuit, and was among those who undertook substantial civil and criminal work and met
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer Williams's Riders to the Sea under Meredith Davies in 1972. Though not fluent in Welsh, she retained great affection for Wales, particularly her native Pembrokeshire; she sang regularly in Wales, and recorded some Welsh songs, notably 'Berwyn' by D. Vaughan Thomas, 'Y bardd' by Mansel Thomas, and 'Gweddi Pechadur' by Morfydd Owen, all on the Qualiton label. At the Swansea Festival in 1969 she gave the
WEST, DANIEL GRANVILLE (Baron Granville-West of Pontypool), (1904 - 1984), Labour politician Officers' Association, was a PPS, 1950-51, to J. Chuter Ede, the Home Secretary, and he was also chairman of the Advisory Council on Civil Aviation in Wales. He was a senior partner in D. Granville West, Chivers and Morgan, solicitors, based at Newbridge and Pontypool. He married on 12 January 1937 Vera, the daughter of J. Hopkins of Pontypool. They had one son and one daughter and lived at Brynderwen
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Association in North Wales in 1891, and of the General Assembly in 1902-3. He contributed articles to the monthly and quarterly periodicals and published his ' Davies Lecture,' The Holy Spirit, in 1900. His biography was written by D. D. Williams (1925).
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, This family was descended from Morgan Fychan, second son of Morgan Gam, who in his early days was connected with the area round Baglan; poets of distinction (see D. R. Phillips, below) wrote in honour of various members of this family during the Middle Ages. The surname was adopted by the descendants of William ap Jenkin ap Hopkin of Blaen Baglan; it was his second son, Jenkin William, who first

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