Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator Born 22 December 1879, son of the Rev. Thomas Jones Wheldon and Mary Elinor Powell, Bronygraig, Ffestiniog, Meironnydd. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, the High School, Oswestry, the University College of North Wales - he was the first secretary of the Students' Representative Council, 1899 - B.A. 1900, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B., 1903, M.A. in 1920). In 1906
WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician She was born Eirene Lloyd Jones at Anwylfan, St Johns Avenue, Belfast, the only daughter of Thomas Jones and his wife, Eirene Theodora Lloyd, on 7 November 1909. Less than a year later, Thomas Jones returned to Wales and settled eventually at Barry where Eirene Jones attended a primary school. After Thomas Jones accepted the post of a temporary assistant in the Cabinet Office where he worked
WILIAM EGWAD (fl. c. 1450), poet Nothing is known of his life, but he may have been connected with the parish of Llanegwad, Carmarthenshire (Lloyd, A History of Carmarthenshire, ii, 413). Peniarth MS 122 (119) also states that he was buried at Llanegwad-fawr. For his works in manuscript see Lewis and Jones, Mynegai, and Cat. of Additions to B.M. MSS., 1841-45; see also works in NLW MS 4710B, NLW MS 5273D, NLW MS 6511B, NLW MS
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' employer, and he showed great generosity towards his sister's husband Joseph Priestley, especially after his losses in the Birmingham riots of 1791. After his death his fortune was squandered in litigation between his mistress and her children and his nephew Thomas Jones (Wilkinson). The Bersham works were derelict within twenty years; those at Brymbo were bought out of Chancery and restarted by a
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers Born in 1774 at Gwastadgoed, Pennal, the son of William and Susan Jones; his parents were very poor, and the father died when Lewis was only four years of age, leaving the mother to the care of the parish. At the age of 16, Lewis joined the county militia; later he was apprenticed to a shoe-maker in Cemaes, Montgomeryshire, where, at the age of 18, he found religion. Recalled to the militia, he
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer of Pandy Isaf, Tre Rhiwedog (Bala); born (according to his tombstone) in 1744. Hardly anything is known of his life. He learned the bardic craft from Rolant Huw, and became himself the teacher of Ioan Tegid (John Jones, 1792 - 1852) and others. He used to write 'C.C.' ('Friend of the Cymmrodorion') after his name, and wrote an elegy on the death of Richard Morris of Anglesey, and a cywydd on the
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1761 - 1844), Independent minister, and hymn-writer Born 1 March 1761 at Trerhedyn, Pendeulwyn, Glamorganshire, son of Richard and Margaret William. As a young man he joined the Methodists at Tre-hyl and came under the influence of David Jones of Llan-gan (1736 - 1810). After the expulsion of Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) in 1791 he left the Methodists, and he and others got together a congregation at the ' Briton ', near Aberthaw. He was ordained
WILLIAMES, RICE PRYCE BUCKLEY (1802 - 1871), official in the Board of Control, London, and principal founder of The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine Commissioners for the affairs of India.' Williames was prominent also in connection with the volunteer movement in Montgomeryshire - cornet in 1819, lieutenant in the new corps, the Yeomanry Cavalry formed in 1831, and later becoming major. He married 1854, Anna Frances Parslow, eldest daughter of Humphrey Rowland Jones, Garthmyl, Montgomeryshire, the only child of the marriage, a daughter, predeceased her
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
WILLIAMS family Gwernyfed, (see his epitaph in Theophilus Jones, 3rd ed., ii, 68). In 1600 he bought the Gwernyfed estate from John Gunter, the last of the old proprietors; and he also had other estates (and tithes) in Brecknock and other border counties. The account of the descendants of Sir David Williams given by Theophilus Jones (op. cit., iii, 82-3), Burke (Extinct Baronetcies, 568), and Jane Williams in her article on
WILLIAMS family Cochwillan, early stages of his rising, but had abandoned his cause by 1408, when he appears as a crown official in Caernarvonshire. He was alive in 1443 and probably died c. 1445 (J. R. Jones, 'The development of the Penrhyn estate to 1431'; University of Wales, M.A. thesis, unpublished; Min. Acc., 1153/5; Griffith, Pedigrees, 186). GRIFFITH AP ROBIN (died c. 1475), royal official and crown farmer Public and

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