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WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Brazil. On 16 October 1939, he enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry. Following completion of his basic training in Bodmin, he was sent to an Officer Cadet Training Unit. On 17 May 1941, newly commissioned a second lieutenant into the Welch Regiment, he married (Margaret) Eirwen Evans, the elder daughter of John Rees Evans, a driver, and Kate Dilys (née Davies). They had a daughter, Mair
WATKINS, THOMAS ARWYN (1924 - 2003), Welsh scholar T. Arwyn Watkins was born 20 June 1924 in Llansamlet, a village on the outskirts of Swansea which was at that time largely Welsh-speaking, one of the two sons of David John Watkins, mine worker, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth. He was educated at Bishop Gore grammar school in Swansea, 1935-1941, and then at Swanseaa University College where he read English, French and Welsh. He took his degree in
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teulu WAYNE, industrialists -wyllt, Merthyr. With the David family of Abernant-y-groes, Cwm-bach, Matthew, with his two sons, Thomas and William Watkin Wayne, formed the Wayne's Merthyr-Aberdare Steam Coal Company, and commenced sinking the colliery in June 1837. By December of the same year, having sunk a distance of forty-nine yards, they had reached the coal, and despatched and exhibited a quantity in London on 13 December
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited cope with the strains of war on the company's two dailies, the Western Mail and the Evening Express. In 1928, he superintended the merger of Western Mail Ltd. with David Duncan and Sons, publishers of Cardiff's rival newspapers, the South Wales Daily News and the South Wales Echo, with the intended closure of the loss-makers, the Express and the News; in the event, the combined company, whose merger
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WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician closely with David Lloyd George, the family moved between Barry and London where Eirene Jones attended a primary school in Upper Norwood. Thomas Jones decided in 1919 to move his family permanently to London and Eirene Jones entered St. Paul's Girls' School in 1920. She won a scholarship in 1929 to Somerville College, where she read philosophy, politics and economics. While she was a student at Oxford
WILLIAM, DAVID (1720 - 1794), hymn-writer Born in the parish of Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. He is possibly the David William, 'exhorter in Llanfynydd' who became a schoolmaster, according to the report made by James Williams to the Methodist Association in 1743. He is known to have been an exhorter, but it is easy to mix him up with David Williams (1717-1792) of Llyswyrny. He lived at 'Llandeilo fach in the county of Glamorgan' when his
WILLIAM, LODWICK (fl. 1689?), writer of interludes was the author of Sherlyn Benchwiban, an interlude published in 1802 by Morgan Rees. Though the latter may have had several compositions by Lodwick William in his possession, the above is the only one which he appears to have published. Few biographical details are available concerning this writer, but his interlude contains references to personages and incidents which suggest that it was
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer Day of Judgement, which his master Rolant Huw thought not unworthy of comparison with the better-known cywyddau of Goronwy Owen and William Wynn (of Llangynhafal) on the same subject. He also wrote a to Dafydd Ionawr (David Richards), and exchanged englynion with Twm o'r Nant (Thomas Edwards). But the bulk of his work consists of elegies of purely local interest, carols, and 'club songs' - there is
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1761 - 1844), Independent minister, and hymn-writer Born 1 March 1761 at Trerhedyn, Pendeulwyn, Glamorganshire, son of Richard and Margaret William. As a young man he joined the Methodists at Tre-hyl and came under the influence of David Jones of Llan-gan (1736 - 1810). After the expulsion of Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) in 1791 he left the Methodists, and he and others got together a congregation at the ' Briton ', near Aberthaw. He was ordained
teulu WILLIAMS Aberpergwm, settled at Aberpergwm, c. 1500. The family produced no particularly noteworthy member until the end of the 18th century; but long before that (certainly not later than 1670) it was deriving an income from the coal and ironstone on the estate by leasing the rights to speculators. George Williams, a notable athlete (died 1796), is believed to have been the last of the legitimate line, and it was REES

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