Dictionary of Welsh Biography

MEYRICK, EDMUND (1636 - 1712), cleric and benefactor of education of Llangathen (1665), vicar of Llanegwad, and canon of S. David's (1667), rector of Burton, Pembrokeshire (1670), canon of Christ College, Brecon, and vicar of Carmarthen (n.d.), treasurer of S. Davids (1690), rector of Penboyr (1713) - he held several of these preferments simultaneously. At the end of his life he was living at Carmarthen, where he died 24 April 1713, and was buried in S. Peter's
PULESTON family Emral, Plas-ym-mers, Hafod-y-wern, Llwynycnotiau, . At the height of the rising the hated sheriff was seized and hanged by the Anglesey Welshmen during a sudden raid on the borough of Caernarvon. In all probability Master Richard de Puleston, who was sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1284-95 (he was appointed on the same day as Sir Roger), was of the same family, although the pedigrees do not help to establish his exact identity. ROBERT PULESTON, son of
PARRY, BLANCHE (1508? - 1590) Morgans of Gwent and Ewias and Ystradyw intermarried with the Parrys. On the other hand, there seems little ground for thinking that the conspirator William Parry, who was executed in 1585, was of this family. Nor, again, are the arms of bishop Richard Parry of S. Asaph satisfactory proof of his kinship with the family - to the contrary, see J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 387. And there is not the slightest
SHADRACH, AZARIAH (1774 - 1844), schoolmaster, Independent minister, and author Born 24 June 1774 at Garndeifo-fach in the parish of Llanfair Nant y Gôf, Pembrokeshire, the fifth son of Henry and Ann Shadrach. When he was 7 years old the family migrated to Burton in the English part of the county. He was there for only three years, returning to an aunt at Moylgrove, where under the influence of the Rev. John Phillips he became a member of the Independent church. He received
FRANCIS, DAVID (1911 - 1981), trade unionist and miners' leader within weeks of his death at the age of 70. A memorial meeting was held soon afterwards at the Onllwyn Miners' Welfare Centre. His papers are in the custody of the Richard Burton Archive at Swansea University. Throughout his life, Dai Francis was a bright emblem of the south Wales coalfield community which had shaped his character. His innate stubbornness and tough inner resilience were tempered by a
GWYN, RICHARD (c. 1537 - 1584), Roman Catholic martyr
ORMSBY-GORE, WILLIAM DAVID (1918 - 1985), politician, diplomat, media impresario . More significant for the history of Wales, in 1968 the new television consortium Lord Harlech chaired, Harlech Television (later HTV), acquired the contract of the Independent Television Authority (which managed the UK's third TV channel, ITV) to produce content for its Wales and West of England region. The new company's board included a number of significant Welsh figures, including Richard Burton
DAVIES, DONALD WATTS (1924 - 2000), pioneer of digital computing, and of packet switching for data communication ); with Derek Barber, Communication Networks for Computers (1973) which became a classic; with Barber, Price and Solomonides, Computer Networks and their Protocols (1979), a major contribution in this field; Security for Computer Networks (1984; 1989); and other books and joint papers in various scientific journals. He married in 1955 Diane Lucy E. (née Burton) and they had two sons and a daughter. He
CRAWLEY, RICHARD (1840 - 1893), scholar
VAUGHAN, RICHARD (1550? - 1607), bishop
RICHARD, HENRY (1812 - 1888), politician Born 3 April 1812, at Tŷ Gwyn, Tregaron, second son of Ebenezer Richard and Mary his wife (daughter of William Williams of Tregaron). After his birth the family moved to Prospect House, Tregaron. He was at school at Llangeitho, and in 1826 was apprenticed to a draper at Carmarthen. Later he decided to enter the Christian ministry, and went to Highbury College, London; on 11 November 1835, he was
DAVIES, RICHARD (1635 - 1708), Quaker convincement, exercises, services and travels of that ancient servant of the Lord Richard Davies has been called a Welsh Quaker classic and has gone through at least seven editions. Richard Davies kept open house at Cloddiau Cochion, Welshpool, for Friends, and although he suffered imprisonment and fines yet he was not embittered. As minister of the gospel he travelled in Wales and England. John ap John

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