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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, 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, JOHN (1663 - 1722) Derllys Court,, social and religious reformer
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
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge into the ill-treatment of mentally ill patients at Farleigh Hospital in Somerset. His report told a grim story of self-satisfaction and set attitudes at all levels of staff and recommended a code of conduct for nurses for the handling of violent patients. In 1971 he was appointed to the High Court bench and knighted. He was assigned initially to the newly created Family Division and transferred to
WATKINS, THOMAS (fl. 17th century), Puritan preacher, Particular Baptist home of the Welsh Baptists. Under the stresses of the Restoration the Hay church disintegrated, and Watkins (whose home was in that neighbourhood) became recognized as the pastor of the Olchon Baptists, and early in August 1662 he and sixteen others from the parish were summoned to appear before the consistory court at Brecon to answer for their nonconformity. The outstanding event in his career was
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited and Echo in 1940, became a director in 1946, and vice-chairman in 1959. He retired in 1960. Keenly interested in education in Wales, he was a member of the Court of the University of Wales and the Council of University College, Cardiff. He was also very active in the business community and many good causes in south Wales. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1946 for his work with the Cardiff Savings
WHEELER, Dame OLIVE ANNIE (1886 - 1963), psychologist and educationist vice-president of the Aberystwyth Old Students' Association, and sat on the university's Court of Governors. She later served on the Welsh Joint Education Committee, and the Council of the Welsh National School of Medicine. Wheeler was a pioneer of interdisciplinary research, applying psychology to issues of educational policy and practice. She highlighted the importance of early childhood in
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator unremitting service: Chairman of the Welsh Committee, Festival of Britain, 1951; Chairman of the Council of School Broadcasting for Wales, member of the Court and Council of the University of Wales, Vice-President of the University Council of North Wales and President of the Cymmrodorion Society. In 1939 he was knighted, and appointed K.B.E. in 1952; the University of Wales conferred upon him the degree of

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