Dictionary of Welsh Biography

VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (d. 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales He was the son of Robert Vaughan of Monmouth and Margaret his wife. The assertion in History of Parliament (1439-1509) that he was the heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower must be rejected. He received denizenship (being a Welshman) by order of the Privy Council and at the instance of lord Somerset and Adam Moleyns, 30 March 1442/3. He was granted the offices of steward, receiver, and master of
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM (d. c. 1827) - see VAUGHAN, JOHN
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM (1575 - 1641), author - see VAUGHAN
VAUGHAN, WILLIAM HUBERT (1894 - 1959), railway guard and chairman of the Welsh Land Settlement Society Born 21 March 1894, son of Henry Charles and Catherine Vaughan, Rogerstone, Monmouthshire. He was educated at the Eastern School, Port Talbot, and, like his father and two brothers, was employed on the railway, where he served for 51 years, 34 of them as a guard. He became a well respected figure who undertook a remarkable variety of public voluntary work. He was a member of Port Talbot borough
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II of John Prothero of Hawksbrook (Nantyrhebog), Carmarthenshire, and Eleanor, daughter of Walter Vaughan of Golden Grove, and thus a niece of John Vaughan, 1st earl of Carbery. Lucy's parents were involved in a long and acrimonious dispute. In May 1641 her mother complained that William Walter had deserted her and she obtained a sequestration order on his estate. This was ultimately revoked in 1647
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Ammanford choral society, and later studied with David Vaughan Thomas. He was the first pupil at Amman Valley County School to study music for the Higher Certificate, but at Aberystwyth he first took a degree in French before graduating in music. While at school he had formed a trio with his brother Merfyn on the cello and Rae Jenkins (1903-1985), later a well-known conductor, as violinist. As a student
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer , Bernard Haitink and Herbert von Karajan. She also appeared regularly in opera at Covent Garden and Salzburg and with Welsh National Opera and was widely respected as one of the finest and most dependable singers of her generation. Particularly well regarded are her recordings of the Angel in Elgar's Dream of Gerontius under Sir Adrian Boult in 1976 and her part in the first complete recording of Vaughan
WILLIAMS family Marl, Vaughan of Pant Glas, Ysbyty Ifan (see under Vaughan of Pant Glas family), and their marriage united the estates of Marl and Pant Glas. Their son was Sir GRIFFITH WILLIAMS (died in 1734), the 6th baronet; he married Catherine Anwyl of the Park (Llanfrothen) and Llwyn (Dolgelley) - see the article on the Anwyls - but, as the estates of that family were encumbered it is doubtful whether this was
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN THOMAS (1832 - 1890), barrister and educationist Pembroke, council-member of the University Colleges of Aberystwyth and Cardiff, and one of the two honorary secretaries of Aberystwyth College till he resigned in May 1885. For some time he edited The Law Magazine and The Commercial Compendium. His publications include The Desirableness of a University for Wales, 1853; Arthur Vaughan, a novel, 1856, a pamphlet on the Jamaica riots, 1866; and a biography
WILLIAMS, EDWARD (1826 - 1886), iron-master appointment as manager of the Dowlais Company's London house. He then came into close contact with the leading iron-masters of the country, and in the following year, 1865, he was made general manager of the Bolckow Vaughan iron-works, Middlesbrough, a limited company with a capital of £3,410,000. Under his direction, the company extended the scope of its operations, acquiring more collieries in Durham and
WILLIAMS, Sir EDWARD VAUGHAN (1797 - 1875), barrister - see WILLIAMS, JOHN

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