Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WOOD, MARY MYFANWY (1882 - 1967), missionary in China, 1908-51
WOOLLER, WILFRED (1912 - 1997), cricketer and rugby player , and 2) Enid Mary James of Ogmore Vale in 1948, with whom he had three sons and two daughters. Whilst still a pupil at Rydal School he played rugby for Sale, and then represented Wales in 1933 against England in the memorable match when Wales won for the first time at Twickenham. He was awarded 18 caps between 1933 and 1939, playing a key role in the victory over New Zealand in 1935, and captained
WYNN family Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa . Humphrey Wynn's wife was Catherine, daughter and heiress of Evan ap Gruffydd ap Meredydd, of Cwmbowydd, Ffestiniog; their son, JOHN WYNN AP HUMPHREY (who was buried at Ffestiniog), married Catherine (buried at Penmorfa), daughter of William Wynn ap William, Cochwillan. John Wynn ap Humphrey's heir was ROBERT WYNN (died 1637), who married Mary, daughter of Ellis ap Cadwaladr, Ystumllyn, and was the father
WYNN family Glyn (Glyn Cywarch), Brogyntyn, and her son, William Owen, to let him and his parishioners of Llandanwg have the old Shire Hall at Harlech for conversion into a chapel-of-ease; both letters are in the Brogyntyn collection in N.L.W. - see Ellis Wynn: Dauganmlwyddiant, published by the National Library in 1934. The heir of Sir Robert Owen and lady (Margaret) Owen was WILLIAM OWEN (died 1768) who married Mary, daughter of Henry
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 Ynysmaengwyn, Dolau Gwyn, , Cardiganshire), IORWERTH (living in 1425), and JENKIN AP IORWERTH. Jenkin ap Iorwerth was ' farmer ' (lessee under the Crown) of the mills of Kevyng and Caethleff (Caethley) and of the ferry of Aberdovey, in the thirty-sixth year of Henry VI. Jenkin ap Iorwerth's son, HOWEL, died of the plague in 1494, but HUMPHREY (died 1545), his son by his wife Mary, daughter of Sir ROGER KYNASTON, constable of Harlech
WYNN family Wynnstay, ), had a distinguished political career. He was Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, 1799-1850, under-secretary to the home office, 1806-7, and secretary of state for war in lord Grey's ministry, 1830-1. Charles married Mary, eldest daughter of Sir Foster Cunliffe and they made their home in Llangedwyn. There is an article on his daughter, Charlotte, in the D.N.B. His other brother, Sir HENRY
WYNN, GRIFFITH (1669? - 1736), cleric and translator payment was made on 22 September 1733, 'my late Master's being Robert Myddelton, Chirk Castle, who died in 1733, '12 Welsh Books' means twelve copies of the one book. The work has an interesting list of subscribers, among these being ' Robert Middleton of Chirk Castle,' and ' Madam Middleton of Groes-Newydd.' This Madam (Mary) Middleton left, in a codicil to her will, an annuity of five pounds to
WYNNE family Peniarth, Charles James Apperley ('Nimrod'). The career of WILLIAM WATKIN EDWARD WYNNE (1801 - 1880) is described fully by G. Tibbott in Journal of the Merioneth Historical and Record Society, i, 69-76. Born at Pickhill Hall, 23 December 1801, he went to Westminster School in 1814 and matriculated at Oxford, as of Jesus College, 24 March 1820. On 8 May 1839 he married Mary, daughter of Robert Aglionby Slaney
WYNNE, JOHN (1650 - 1714), industrial pioneer December 1714, and was buried in the Nonconformist chapel at Trelawnyd. It is recorded that he had a brother, Edward (who seems to have predeceased him), and three sisters: Mary, Elizabeth (who was married to John Hough of Chester in 1700, by the celebrated Independent minister James Owen), and Catherine. According to Powys Fadog (iv, 298) and J. E. Griffith (Pedigrees, 299), he had a daughter and
YARDLEY, EDWARD (1698 - 1769), archdeacon for St. Michael's chapel, the old chapel of Highgate School which was a chapel of ease in the parish of St. Mary, Hornsey, a position which he held for the remainder of his life. He afterwards became archdeacon of Cardigan (26 May 1739). In his own words ' It was at this time [i.e. from 1739] during his stay for nine months in Wales, that he first began to examine the Records and search into ye

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