Dictionary of Welsh Biography

REES, MORGAN GORONWY (1909 - 1979), writer and university administrator 1948: Margaret Jane ('Jenny'), Rees's biographer (1942), Lucy (1943), the twins Thomas and Daniel (1948); to be followed by Matthew (1954-2016). The students took to the new principal, to his 'versatility of achievement and cosmopolitan range' - something he quickly demonstrated in Conversations with Kafka (his translation of Gustav Janouch, 1953) and The Answers of Ernst von Salomon (1954), with its
LEWIS, JOHN SAUNDERS (1893 - 1985), politician, critic and dramatist conversion. Lewis continued to publish as late as 1980, despite suffering a stroke the previous year. In 1983, at the age of 89, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters by the University of Wales, which had dismissed him from his post almost half a century earlier. He died after a long illness at St Winifred's Hospital, Cardiff, on 1 September 1985. In his address at the funeral Bishop Daniel
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, - is described in the family History. He married, 1703, lady Essex Finch, daughter of Daniel, earl of Winchilsea, by whom he had six sons and six daughters. Among the sons were Thomas Mostyn, the heir, John Mostyn, who became a general in the British army, and Savage Mostyn, who became Vice-Admiral of the Blue and Comptroller of the Navy and one of the Lords of the Admiralty : for the careers of the
MYDDELTON family Gwaenynog, three parliaments of 1624-6. Yet at the very end of his life he co-operated with Rowland Heylyn in financing the publication of the first portable Welsh Bible and other Welsh devotional works (1630). He died on 12 August 1631, leaving his Welsh estates to his eldest surviving son Thomas Myddelton and those in Essex to a younger son, TIMOTHY MYDDELTON, founder of another wealthy stock which played a
WILLIAMS, Sir GLANMOR (1920 - 2005), historian Glanmor Williams was born on 5 May 1920 at 3 Cross Francis St, Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, the only child of Daniel Williams (died 1957) and his wife Ceinwen (née Evans) who died in 1970. The paternal family's roots were in Breconshire, the maternal in Rhandir-mwyn, Carmarthenshire. The family were Welsh-speaking Baptists and members of Moriah chapel, Dowlais. His father was first a
HODGE, JULIAN STEPHEN ALFRED (1904 - 2004), financier grandees of the time, including not just James Callaghan, a former Chancellor of the Exchequer and M.P. for the area in which Hodge's premises were located, and George Thomas a former Secretary of State for Wales in the neighbouring seat, but Sir Goronwy Daniel, Principal of University College Aberystwyth and a former Permanent Secretary, Sir Cennydd Traherne, KG, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Lord
PERROT family Haroldston, , daughter of Hugh Prust of Thorney in Devon and widow of Sir Lewis Pollard of Oakford, Devon, by whom he had a son William (died 1587) and two daughters, Lettice, who married (1) Rowland Laugharne of St. Bride's, (2) Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove and St. Bride's (the latter in right of his wife), and (3) Arthur Chichester, baron Chichester of Belfast and later lord-deputy of Ireland, and Ann, who married
SOMERSET family Raglan, Troy, Crickhowell, Badminton, election. Early in 1681 they joined Sir Rowland Gwynne in pushing through the Commons an address for his banishment from court and council and promoting an abortive bill for 'taking away Lord Worcester's Ludlow court for Wales ' as 'too great a trust.' Charles II retorted by making him duke of Beaufort (2 December 1682), while the new duke silenced Williams and Arnold by obtaining heavy damages against
DANIEL (d. 1127), archdeacon - see SULIEN
HEILYN, ROWLAND - see HEYLIN, ROWLAND
HEYLYN, ROWLAND - see HEYLIN, ROWLAND
LEGH, ROWLAND - see LEE, ROWLAND

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