Dictionary of Welsh Biography

TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, election in Wrexham, which by coinciding with another Irish muster gave cover for carrying arms and provoked a situation so ugly that polling had to be called off till after Parliament met, when Lleweni carried the day. Trevor was dismissed from his deputy-lieutenancy, and for two years involved in Star Chamber suits arising out of the 1596 and 1600 musters and the 1601 election, and although this was
TUDUR PENLLYN (c. 1420 - c. 1485-90), bard For his pedigree, see Peniarth MS 125: Cywyddau ymryson Edmwnd Prys a Wiliam Cynwal, Peniarth MS 139i Peniarth MS 139ii Peniarth MS 139iii, Peniarth MS 176: Achau, Wrexham MS. 1, and Stowe MS. 669. He was Tudur Penllyn ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Foel, but in one manuscript he is called Tudur Penllyn ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Iorwerth Foel. He traced his descent from Meirion Goch, an Edeirnion nobleman who
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist he was welcomed back to his ministry after his release from prison. Valentine was invited in October 1943 to become minister of Sïon chapel in Ponciau near Wrexham. He refused that invitation, but when a call came to Penuel chapel in Rhosllannerchgrugog in 1947 he decided after much deliberation to accept it. It was a big change for the family to move from the town of Llandudno to the mining
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London Born at Wrexham in 1764, the son of John Waithman, of Warton, Lancashire, a joiner at the Bersham furnace, and of his wife, Mary (Roberts). He served in a linen-draper's shop in London, and, about 1786, opened a shop of his own, first in Fleet Market, and then at 103 and 104 Fleet Street. He married, on 14 July 1787, his cousin, Mary Davis. He amassed a considerable fortune. Under the influence
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet was permitted to retain his military rank when the regiment was disbanded. For some years after this he was engaged in various ventures in Caernarvonshire. He had already married Ellen Elizabeth Parry, one of the two co-heiresses of Love Parry of Madryn; his brother-in-law was Thomas Parry Jones (afterwards ' Jones-Parry ') of Llwyn Onn, Wrexham (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 224). By this marriage
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist William Warrington was born at Brynyffynnon, Wrexham in 1735, the fifth of eight children of George Warrington (1695-1770) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thornhill, 1706-1788). Both his parents were from Lancashire and of minor gentry status. The place of his education is unknown. He married Dorothy Lever, and they had one daughter, Dorothy, who married James Brasier La Grange of Westminster and
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' 1753, his father took a lease of the Bersham furnace (Wrexham), which for over twenty years had been worked with coal but yielded poor results, and settled with his wife and younger children at Plas Grono, the ancient home of the Yale family on Erthig estate, John co-operated in the venture and went to live in Wrexham while retaining his Midland interests. Using ironstone from Llwyn Einion and coal
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN HAYDN (1902 - 1965), education officer Industrial Research in London. In 1931 he was appointed lecturer at Wrexham Technical College and was responsible for developing their chemistry department, specialising on the industrial side. In 1938 he came to the then Flintshire, as deputy Director of Education and became Director of Education in 1941. He was a member of the Court and Council of the University of Wales and a member of several sub
WILLIAMS, CHRISTMAS PRICE (1881 - 1965), politician and engineer Born 25 December 1881, the son of Peter Williams and Mary Price his wife, Brymbo Hall, Wrexham, Denbighshire. His father was the managing director of the Brymbo Steel Co. He was educated at Grove Park School, Wrexham, at Mold, and at Victoria University, Manchester, where he graduated B.Sc. (with honours) in science and M.Sc. He earned his living as an engineer at Sheffield, Warrington and South
WILLIAMS, DANIEL (1643? - 1716), Presbyterian divine, and benefactor to Nonconformity Born at Wrexham or nearby, but neither the date of his birth nor the names of his parents are known; he had, however, a sister, Elizabeth (died 1728), the wife of Hugh Roberts, a currier and landowner. Nothing is known about his education, but he was a regular preacher before he was 19 years of age. The whole of his career was spent outside Wales - it is difficult to believe that he was the
WILLIAMS, DAVID LLEWELYN (1870 - 1949), surgeon Wrexham in 1905. He married in 1906, Margaret Price of Rhyl, and they had two sons, Eric and Alun, and a daughter, Enid. In 1907 he became county medical officer for Denbighshire, being the first holder of such a post in Wales. When the National Insurance Commission was set up in Wales in 1912 he was invited to serve as its deputy medical officer, and he moved to Cardiff. During World War I he joined
WILLIAMS, GRACE MARY (1906 - 1977), composer Grace Williams was born in Barry, Glamorgan on 19 February 1906, the eldest of three children of William Matthews Williams (a schoolteacher from Wrexham) and his wife Rose Emily (née Richards), a teacher from Llanelli, who had married in 1900. Her brother Glyn was born in 1908, and her sister Marian in 1919. W. M. Williams was an accomplished musician and the conductor of the Romilly Boys' Choir

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