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TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army was active in suppressing the various risings in North Wales on behalf of king Charles I, and was present at the skirmish on Y Dalar Hir, Llandygai, 5 June 1648, where Sir John Owen of Clenennau was overcome and captured. He was also a member of the High Court of Justice formed for the trial of king Charles, as well as of several commissions appointed by Parliament to deal with sequestrations, etc
UNGOED-THOMAS, (ARWYN) LYNN (1904 - 1972), Labour politician Revision Committee (appointed by the Lord Chancellor). He was president of the Hardwicke Society. He was a British delegate to the Council of Europe in 1949. He served as Solicitor-General in 1949-51 and he was appointed a judge of the High Court in April 1962, a move which precipitated his resignation from the House of Commons. In spite of his background, he formed close bonds of friendship with his
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist publicity for the nationalist cause, and Valentine and Saunders Lewis both delivered speeches at the hearing at Caernarfon Crown Court in October 1936 which were published as a pamphlet by the party. The jury failed to reach agreement on that occasion, but when the case was transferred to the Old Bailey in London in January 1937 the three defendants were sentenced to nine months in prison, and they were
teulu VAUGHAN Tretower Court, wall of Tretower Court, and he maintained his family's traditional patronage of Welsh bards. He was unstintingly eulogised by Lewis Glyn Cothi, Dafydd Epynt, Ieuan ap Huw Cae Llwyd, Huw Dafi, and others. His first wife was Cissil, daughter of Morgan ap Jenkin 'ap Philip' of Gwent; the second was Jane, lady Ferrers. Lewis Glyn Cothi addressed an awdl to his three sons, Roger, Watkin, and Henry, but
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest for the founding of a family centre in Swansea, to serve deprived members of the community. In addition, he worked hard at the theological education of clergy and lay people. Vaughan was President of the Council of Churches for Wales from 1980 to 1982. He was a member of the court of the University of Wales and of the Order of Druids, Gorsedd y Beirdd. After his retirement in 1987, he served as
VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621 - 1695), poet a member of the Vaughan family of Tretower Court - see the family article; born 1621 at Trenewydd (Newton), Brecknock, and educated by Matthew Herbert, rector of Llangattock. He appears to have gone up to Oxford in 1638 and to have been a member of Jesus College. He took no degree, but some two years later his father sent him to London to study law. Because of the Civil War he was summoned home
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1663 - 1722) Derllys Court,, social and religious reformer
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge ' and amongst the most eloquent in the House. He was prominent in the attacks on Clarendon in 1667. In May 1668 he was suddenly promoted chief justice of the court of Common Pleas, and knighted. He won lasting fame for his important decision in Bushell's Case, that juries were not to be fined for returning a verdict against the direction of the judge. Some of his friends were men of great distinction
VAUGHAN, RICE (bu farw 1670), lawyer and author , 1654.) The previous year (18 August 1653) Vaughan had been appointed prothonotary for the counties of Denbigh and Montgomery in the court of Great Sessions in place of John Edisbury; for details, see W. R. Williams, op. cit., and Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1653-4. He served the commissioners for sequestrations (from March 1649) and did some business on behalf of the Council of State
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II his losses there amounted to £3,000 and that he had been forced to flee to London. There is no doubt that the family spent much time in London in pursuance of the dispute which has already been mentioned. How the young Prince of Wales came to meet Lucy Walter is not known. She was with the exiled court at the Hague in the summer of 1648, and subsequently in Paris. Their son, James, was born at
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure elected president of the Welsh Textile Manufacturing Association. From 1925 to 1935 he was a valued member of the Court of the University of Wales and especially of the University's committee to promote the interests of the ailing woollen industry. In 1943 he was elected chairman of the North Wales Industrial Development Council. He was very prominent in local government. In 1905 he was elected to

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