Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MORGAN, ELAINE NEVILLE (1920 - 2013), screenwriter, journalist, and author channel's first costume drama, an opportunity she turned down. The 1970s saw a turn to Welsh matters, with high-profile television adaptations of Possessions (1974) starring Anthony Hopkins; How Green Was My Valley (1975-6) starring (amongst others) Stanley Baker and Sian Phillips; and Off to Philadelphia in the Morning (1978). Her masterpiece The Life and Times of David Lloyd George, with its compelling
JONES, JOHN HENRY (1909 - 1985), educationist and translator fragmentary - work of the prolific polymath Varro (116-27 B.C.) and completed a Ph.D. (London) thesis, 'A Critical Study of the Life and Work of Marcus Terentius Varro' (1936). After a short period as a master at Friars School, Bangor, in 1937 he was appointed lecturer in Classics at University College, Swansea. There he met Marian Phillips (1916-2013), originally from Brynamman, a lecturer in the college's
ROBERTS, ARTHUR RHYS (1872 - 1920), solicitor of a Methodist minister from Arfon and a former pupil of the Salop School. It was not unexpected that the company, in addition to its London clients, had developed a professional link with the Calvinistic Methodist Church and its ministers, with Roberts giving advice, in 1908, to the Reverend R. Silyn Roberts on an accusation of libel made against him by another minister, (D. M. Phillips
PHILIPPS, OWEN COSBY (Baron Kylsant), (1863 - 1937), ship-owner been fuelled by Kylsant's amiable relations with the family owning Picton Castle. When the Royal Mail Steam Packet Co.'s accounts for 1928 were published, the auditor had added the same qualifications as in previous years; Lord St. Davids asked to interview the auditor but was refused, and he, in turn, refused to discuss the situation with Kylsant. The quarrel between the two brothers became public
JONES, JOHN Maes-y-garnedd,, 'the regicide' ; Phillips, Civil War, i, 274-5; Hist. MSS. Comm., 9th R., ii, 443). By April 1645 he was serving in the siege of Chester, and protesting against the indiscriminate plunder of Welsh goods by his own side. Next year he had become a colonel of horse, and was one of the three envoys sent to negotiate the surrender of Anglesey (30 May to 14 June). Next year (23 September) he succeeded one of his fellow-envoys
MOSTYN family Mostyn Hall, Flint castle and town. For the next few years his personal history is intermixed with his activities as a Royalist officer - for details see the History; J. R. Phillips, Civil War in Wales; Calendar of Wynn Papers; Whitelock, Memorials; and Henry Taylor, ' The Flintshire Militia, with a short biography of Sir Roger Mostyn… its first Colonel,' in Jnl. of the Chester Archaeol. and Hist. Soc., 1891. His
PERROT family Haroldston, John Philips of Picton. Besides these he had a number of illegitimate children of whom the most important were Sir James Perrot, by Sibil Jones of Radnorshire, Elizabeth, daughter of Elizabeth Hatton, a daughter who married David Morgan, gent., and a son John (b. tua 1565), who matriculated from Broadgates Hall, Oxford, in 1580. In 1580 he donated lands and properties of the yearly value of £30, free
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Tasker Watkins was born on 18 November 1918 at 9 Station Terrace, Nelson, Glamorgan, the second son and the fourth of seven children of Bertram Watkins, an engine fitter and later a government employee, and his wife Jane (née Phillips). His father and grandfather both fought in Kitchener's Army and his father's two brothers were killed fighting with the Welsh Guards in the First World War. He won
TURBERVILL, EDITH PICTON - see PICTON-TURBERVILL, EDITH
LEVI PHILLIPS, SAMUEL - see PHILLIPS, SAMUEL LEVI
PHILLIPS, THOMAS LLOYD (1832 - 1900), minister - see PHILLIPS, THOMAS

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