Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales drawn towards the Yorkist party, and was accused of imagining and compassing the death of the king on 4 July 1459. He is said to have been with the Yorkists at Ludford, and is named among the dignitaries attainted by the Coventry Parliament at the close of the year 1459. Like the others, he was fined, 20 May 1460. He returned with the earls to London and by 14 August 1460 he was back in his former
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral mentioned in despatches). During 1915-16 he was commodore commanding small vessels in the eastern Mediterranean, including 160 minesweepers. As commodore first class he was in charge of the allied barrage across the Strait of Otranto, 1916-17. Then he became Senior British Naval Officer in Italy and he was promoted rear-admiral in 1918. He was A.D.C. to the King, 1917-18. He retired from active service in
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II when he was given charge of the children, of whom there were three, Richard, Lucy, and Justus. Roch castle was garrisoned for the king by Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, in 1643. It was taken by Rowland Laugharne after his defeat of the Royalists at Pill (in Milford Haven) in February 1644, but again seized for the king in the following June by Sir Charles Gerard. William Walter alleged that
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator of Henry Walford Davies Irwyn Walters had the opportunity to observe famous conductors who took part in the Gregynog music festivals, including Adrian Boult, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henry Wood. He became a teacher at Bideford then moved to Islington in 1928, where he also served as organist of the Welsh chapel in Willesden Green. He then moved to the King Edward VI School in
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist author of two forgotten dramas, The Cambrian Hero, or Llewelyn the Great (?1803) and Alphonso King of Castile, A Spanish Tragedy (1813). A poem by him entitled 'On Old Windsor Church-yard' is quoted in John Evans, An Excursion to Windsor, in July 1810 (1817), pp. 345-6. His major work is The History of Wales, published in London by Joseph Johnson in 1786, with a dedication to William, Duke of
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge lives of his men, and had a decisive influence on the course of the battle. Watkins was decorated with the Victoria Cross by King George VI on 8 March 1945 at Buckingham Palace. He was famously reticent both in public and in private about his gallantry, choosing not to talk about it, but he was reported as saying "The boys were wonderful. They were Welsh" (Western Mail 9 May 1945) and when he was
WILLIAMS, ALICE HELENA ALEXANDRA (ALYS MEIRION; 1863 - 1957), writer, artist, and voluntary welfare worker committees of both St George's and King Edward's hospitals in London, and was in 1937 awarded the CBE for outstanding public service. The next years proved difficult. 1939 brought the death both of Fanny Laming and of her brother, Dr Leonard Williams, to whom she had been close since childhood, and in 1944 the Forum Club's premises were badly damaged in the blitz. Later, in her ninetieth year, she oversaw
WILLIAMS, ARTHUR WYNN (1819 - 1886), physician and antiquary of British and Druidical Remains in the neighbourhood of Caernarvon, and King Arthur's Well, Llanddeiniolen, near Caernarvon - a chalybeate spring, with directions for its use; a Welsh translation of the latter was published also. He died 15 November 1886, aged 67 years, and was buried in Paddington cemetery on 19 November
WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH (1587? - 1673), bishop and author about until the Restoration. During this time he visited Ireland on several occasions and, in 1647, was appointed rector of Rathfarnham. In 1661 he resumed his bishopric and is said to have been the first to pray publicly in Ireland for king Charles II. He died 29 March 1673, and was buried in Ossory cathedral. He left to the poor property in Llanllechid, Conway, and Llandygài. He published The
WILLIAMS, GWYN ALFRED (1925 - 1995), historian and television presenter worshipped in Welsh and prided themselves on being the descendants of radical puritans who had been brave enough to chop off the head of a king in Stuart times. Although his relatively well-to-do parents cushioned him from the worst aspects of the economic slump in the inter-war years, he remained keenly aware of the privations and inequalities of the times. When not up to mischief, as a teenager he
WILLIAMS, HUGH DOUGLAS (Brithdir; 1917 - 1969), teacher and artist the college Students Union, 1939-41. From college he went to Whitefield Grammar School as temporary teacher, and then to Birkenhead Secondary School in 1944 and King George V School, Southport, in 1945. He was appointed lecturer in art at Bangor Normal College in April 1948, eventually becoming principal lecturer and head of the Art department. He married Mair Eiluned Williams in Treharris 21 August
WILLIAMS, JOHN (1582 - 1650), dean of Westminster, lord keeper of the great seal, archbishop of York Born 22 March 1582 at Conway, the second son of Edmund and Mary Williams. He was descended on his father's side from the declining houses of Cochwillan and Penrhyn, and on his mother's side from the house of Wynn of Gwydir. From Ruthin grammar school he went, in 1598, to S. John's College, Cambridge. After ordination he continued his university career; and in 1611 a sermon preached before king

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