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WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II had connections with some of the leading county families in West Wales. Her father, William Walter of Roch Castle, Pembrokeshire, was the grandson of William Walter, who had purchased the manor of Roch from the de Longuevilles c. 1601. He had married Jane, daughter of Francis Laugharne of S. Brides, and Janet, daughter of John Philipps of Picton Castle. Her mother was Elizabeth Prothero, daughter
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer Born 27 May 1874 the eldest of the five children of John and Ann (née Dyer) Walters of Ty'n-y-coed, Betws, Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. The father was a blacksmith and the family moved when David was five years old to Glais, near Clydach, Swansea Valley. He had his early education at the local board school where he became a pupil-teacher. The family were members at Seion, Glais, and his mother
WALTERS, EVAN JOHN (1893 - 1951), artist when it was unusual to buy original art. At the Swansea national eisteddfod of 1926 he won a prize for a painting of Pennard castle, receiving high praise from his adjudicator, Augustus John. His portraits often showed coal miners and local people, but he also had prominent figures sitting for him, such as David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Balfour, Rear Admiral Walker Heneage (later Walker
WALTERS, JOHN (1760 - 1789), cleric, poet, and scholar Born 11 June 1760 at Llandough, eldest son of John Walters, rector of Llandough. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school. He matriculated as of Jesus College, Oxford, in 1777, and graduated B.A. in 1781, M.A. 1784. He was sub-librarian in the Bodleian Library. In 1783 he was appointed headmaster of Cowbridge grammar school, becoming also curate at Cowbridge. Towards the end of 1784 he was
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer Born 22 August 1721, son of John Walters, timber merchant, Llanedi, Carmarthenshire. His parents died when he was a young lad. He went to Bassaleg, Monmouth, as schoolmaster, and afterwards was a pupil at Cowbridge grammar school. He then went to Margam to keep a school and, in 1750, was ordained. He was curate at Margam and afterwards received the perpetual curacy of Llanfihangel Ynys Afan. He
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister minister (by the congregation itself, following the example of New Inn - see under Morgan John Lewis), as an Independent, of course. He died 25 May 1794, at the age of 65. Bethel continued to flourish for some time after the death of Thomas Walters, but about 1811 a minority seceded and founded the Methodist chapel at Gelli-groes. The direct successor of Thomas Walters as minister of Bethel (until 1811
WARD, JOHN (1856 - 1922), museum official, and antiquary
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist author of two forgotten dramas, The Cambrian Hero, or Llewelyn the Great (?1803) and Alphonso King of Castile, A Spanish Tragedy (1813). A poem by him entitled 'On Old Windsor Church-yard' is quoted in John Evans, An Excursion to Windsor, in July 1810 (1817), pp. 345-6. His major work is The History of Wales, published in London by Joseph Johnson in 1786, with a dedication to William, Duke of
WATCYN CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1630-1650), poet reconciliatory poems according to the conventional manner. One of his elegies was written on the death of colonel Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, killed in a duel with Thomas Cheadle on Lavan Sands, 19 February 1649/50. He also wrote a poem to a new house built by Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd in 1630. His poetry bears testimony to the persistence of bardic patronage in these shires.
WATKIN, EVAN (fl. circa 1801 - circa 1845), schoolmaster and writer . He wrote (1) A new translation of Homer's Iliad, with notes, by Blank Blank, Esq. (London, published by A. Robertson and Co. Printed by J. Cox, Aberystwyth, 1825); (2) A Key to the Greek Language (London, A. Robertson and Co.); (3) Greek Delectus for the Use of Schools; (4) Greek Grammar. He relinquished teaching in 1840 and edited, for John Cox, Aberystwyth, The Demetian Mirror, or Aberystwith
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Born 23 June 1878 at Pen-rhewllas farm, Mynydd Gelliwastad, Clydach, Glamorganshire, one of the 6 children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin. One of his brothers was William Rhys Watkin. He attended Pen-clun elementary school, near Rhydypandy, and then began work, aged 11, as a door-boy in a colliery. In 1893 he was apprenticed for 3 years to a builder, John Griffiths, in Pontardawe, where
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Moreia, Llanelli from 1910 until his death. He was the editor of Seren Gomer from 1921 to 1930, and from 1933 until 1947 (with John Gwili Jenkins for a year, and then with David Hopkins as co-editors). He was a notable administrator - he was President of his cymanfa, President of the Union of Welsh Baptists, 1939-40, and Chairman of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1944-45. He contributed many articles

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