Dictionary of Welsh Biography

DAVIDS, THOMAS WILLIAM (1816 - 1884), Independent minister and ecclesiastical historian Born 11 June 1816 in Gower, where his father, a Ffald-y-brenin man and a kinsman of David Jones (1736 - 1810) of Llan-gan, was minister. His parents died when he was young and he was brought up by his uncle, Thomas Thomas of Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire. It was intended that he should be a doctor but he insisted on following in his father's footsteps and was therefore sent to Homerton College
WILLIAMS, ROWLAND (1817 - 1870), cleric and scholar classical tutor of King's College, and in 1850 he was appointed vice-principal and professor of Hebrew at S. Davids College, Lampeter. During the twelve years which he spent there, he devoted himself to the reorganization of the general administration and scheme of work of the college, and was markedly successful in this and in his relations with his students; indeed, some people thought him to be marked
GRIFFITHS, DAVID (1756 - 1834), Methodist cleric Born at Felinwlân, Lampeter Velfrey, Pembrokeshire, son of John Griffiths. He was educated at Pembroke grammar-school and, c. 1774, was appointed private tutor to the Bowen family of Llwyn-gwair, Nevern, where he came into contact with some of the principal Methodist leaders. He married the eldest daughter of his patron. He was ordained deacon by the bishop of S. Davids, 16 October 1779, and
BURGESS, THOMAS (1756 - 1837), bishop held the living of Winston in the same diocese. In June 1803 he was appointed bishop of S. Davids, and forthwith began to institute reforms in the diocese. He licensed four grammar schools from which he would be willing to ordain men after a seven years course; he founded a society to promote Christian learning and Church union, and he proceeded to collect subscriptions for founding a college in
PARRY, DAVID (1794 - 1877), cleric was known as ' Y Gloch Arian ' ('the silver bell'). A scholarship was founded in his name at S. David's College, Lampeter, and there is a portrait of him in the vestry of Defynnog parish church.
ALLEN, JAMES (1802 - 1897), dean of S. Davids and antiquary Born 15 July 1802, son of David Bord Allen, rector of Burton, Pembrokeshire; educated at Westminster and Charterhouse Schools and Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829. He was ordained deacon, 1834, and priest, 1835; he was curate of Miserden, Gloucestershire, 1834-9, vicar of Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, 1839-72, rural dean of Castlemartin, 1840-75, prebend of St. Davids cathedral
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest Benjamin Vaughan was born on 25 December 1917 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, the son of James O. Vaughan (b. 1877), an alderman in the town, and his wife Elizabeth (née Lewis, b. 1877). He was educated at St David's College, Lampeter, where he took a first in Classics and then at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he achieved a second in Theology. He completed ministerial training at Westcott House
TREE, RONALD JAMES (1914 - 1970), priest and schoolmaster Philosophy 1939 : B.Litt. 1941. He was at St. Michael's College, Llandaff, 1939-40. Ordained deacon in 1940, he served as curate of Cwmaman, 1940-44 and was ordained priest, 1941. He was curate of St. Michael's, Aberystwyth, 1944-46 and acted as chaplain to the Anglican students in the University College. In 1946, he was appointed lecturer in Philosophy at St. David's College, Lampeter, and became
ADAM (d. 1181), bishop of St Asaph part of Powys, and the death of bishop David of S. Davids in May 1176 seemed to provide an opportunity to recover it for the northern bishopric. He resolved to make a beginning with the border church of Kerry and engaged the assistance of the local authorities, both lay and clerical. But this was to ignore the recently appointed archdeacon of Brecknock, none other than the formidable Gerald. The two
MILLINGCHAMP, BENJAMIN (1756 - 1829), naval chaplain and collector of Oriental manuscripts Born in 1756, the son of Benjamin Millingchamp and grandson of Joseph Millingchamp, Comptroller of the Customs at Cardigan, and his wife Anne (Gambold). He was educated at Ystrad Meurig School, Queen's College, Oxford (matriculated 12 February 1773), and Merton College, Oxford (B.A. 1777). Ordained deacon 9 August 1778 by J. Yorke, bishop of S. Davids, he was appointed (4 September 1778) a
EVANS, DAVID (1830 - 1910), archdeacon of St Asaph were the examiners who admitted T. E. Ellis into Bala grammar school. In 1876 he became vicar of Abergele, and in 1897 archdeacon of S. Asaph. His reminiscences, originally contributed to Y Llan, appeared in book form (Lampeter, 1904) under the title Adgofion, gan Henafgwr; they are of exceptional interest, more especially as a picture of life in mid-Cardiganshire in the first half of the 19th
JOYCE, GILBERT CUNNINGHAM (1866 - 1942), bishop Llandaff, and was sub-warden of St. Michael's College, Aberdare, from 1892 to 1896, receiving priest's orders in 1893. From 1897 to 1916 he was Warden of St. Deiniol's Library, Hawarden, and from 1916 to 1922 Principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. He held a canonry in St Asaph Cathedral from 1907 to 1914, and was chancellor from 1914 to 1927. After a year as archdeacon of St. David's, he was

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