Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM LLEWELYN (1867 - 1922), Member of Parliament, lawyer, and author and irretrievably with Lloyd George. When he sought election for Cardiganshire in 1921, he was opposed by an official candidate, and was defeated in a very hotly contested election. He died 22 April 1922, leaving a widow, Elinor (Jenkins of Glan Sawdde).
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1885 - 1972), musician funeral of David Lloyd George. His hymn-tune 'Llanystumdwy' was composed in memory of Lloyd George. In 1946 he left Anglesey for Colwyn Bay, where he again conducted the local choral society from 1959 to 1968. He was an active supporter of the National Eisteddfod, of which he was invested a Fellow in 1969, and a popular adjudicator at competitions and festivals of all kinds. The University of Wales
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter bedchamber to the queen. RICHARD WILSON (1713-1782), landscape painter Art and Architecture Nature and Agriculture Third son of the above John and his wife Alice, was born in August 1713 at Penegoes near Machynlleth. His mother was of the Wynne family of Leeswood near Mold, and Richard passed his boyhood at Mold. He was sent up to London, with the help of Sir George Wynne, in 1729, and there trained as a
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician Born 7 February 1857 in London, the elder son of Captain the Hon. W.H. Wyndham-Quin (the second son of the Earl of Dunraven) and Caroline, daughter of Admiral Sir George Tyler, Cottrell, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the 16th Lancers in 1878 and, attached to the Inniskillin Dragoons, fought in the war against the Boers in 1881. In
WYNN family Gwydir, by Sir George Booth and Sir Thomas Myddelton (whose daughter, Sarah, he had married in 1654) and was for a while imprisoned at Caernarvon. On his death in 1674 his estate passed to his daughter Mary (1661 - 1689), who married, in 1678, Robert Bertie, baron Willoughby de Eresby later marquis of Lindsey and duke of Ancaster, in whose family Gwydir remained until 1895. The baronetcy passed to John
WYNN family Wynnstay, Llangedwyn. He was succeeded by Sir WATKIN WILLIAMS WYNN II (1749 - 1789), the eldest son of his second marriage, to Frances, daughter of George Shackerley of Hulme, Cheshire. Like his father, the second Sir Watkin was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire, 1774-89, and in 1775 was made Custos Rotulorum and lord-lieutenant of Merioneth. But he is chiefly remembered as a patron of the fine arts; he could
YALE family Plâs yn Iâl, Plas Grono, prebendary of Chester in 1582 and chancellor of the diocese in 1587. In 1598 he made extensive purchases of land from the Erddigs of Erthig (see under Edisbury), selling some but keeping Plas Grono as (till 1721) the family seat. His son, Thomas Yale II, married a daughter of bishop George Lloyd, of Chester, and after his death and her re-marriage to the governor of New Haven (Con.), she and her children
YOUNG, THOMAS (1507 - 1568), archbishop of York elected archbishop of York, 27 January 1561. As archbishop and president of the council of the North, he was active in forwarding the Elizabethan settlement, though he incurred censure for his misuse of the temporalities of his see. He died 26 June 1568, and was buried in York Minster. He married (1), a daughter of George Constantine; (2) Jane Kynaston, Estwick, Staffs., by whom he had one son, Sir

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