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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
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, GARETH (1928 - 2012), composer Gareth Walters was born in Swansea on 27 December 1928, the son of Irwyn R. Walters (1902-1992) and his wife Margaret Jane (née Edwards). He began composing while still at school, and was encouraged by Benjamin Britten, a friend of the family. In 1949 he enrolled as a student at the Royal Academy of Music and in 1952 went to Paris on a scholarship to the Conservatoire Nationale, where he studied
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet the Wern estate at Penmorfa, the old home of the Wynn family of Peniarth (Griffith, op. cit., 343, at the bottom of the page), and with this Wardle was associated for some years after 1802. He (and Jones-Parry) became involved in the speculative enterprises of W. A. Madocks. When Madocks built a cloth factory, fulling mill, and dye works at Tremadoc, Wardle was one of the partners (Gesliana, 170
WARNER, MARY WYNNE (1932 - 1998), mathematician Mary Warner was born in Carmarthen on 22 June 1932, the elder of the two daughters of Sydney Davies (1901-1978), a mathematics teacher later to become a headteacher, and his wife Esther (née Jones, 1899-1982). Mary received her primary education in Carmarthen before the family moved to Llandovery where she attended the local grammar school, later moving to live in Holywell and studied for her A
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist Bessborough (1704-1793). Presumably it was Bessborough who secured for him the living of Old Windsor in Berkshire, to which he was appointed in 1789. The church has a wall-memorial to his wife, who died in 1806, and an inscription on the family tomb gives death dates for all family members, including daughter, granddaughter and two great-grandchildren. His will is held in the Canterbury records. He is the
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure conference of local authorities at Shrewsbury in June 1943. Thomas Waterhouse was a good example of a person of wholly English stock who became rooted in Wales, which he then served skilfully and tirelessly. Since there was no English Wesleyan cause at Holywell, the family joined the English Congregationalist Church to which they gave substantial support. Trim and dignified, Thomas Waterhouse had a clear
WATKIN, EVAN (fl. circa 1801 - circa 1845), schoolmaster and writer member of the Watkin family of Moelcerni, near Aberystwyth. He was a pupil at Ystradmeurig school, but does not appear to have proceeded to Oxford. In January 1821 he was in London, seeking a post in a school; it is known that he taught at schools in Twickenham, London, Totteridge (Hertfordshire), Cheltenham, Aberystwyth, Worcester, Cheltenham (Charlton), Bath (Belvedere), and again at Cheltenham
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister Born 10 December 1875 in Ynys-Tawe, Glamorganshire, one of the six children of William and Barbara (née Rhys) Watkin : the father was one of the Grove family of Swansea, and the mother one of the Rhys's of Tŷ'n y Waun, and the Morgans of Cwmcilie. Professor Morgan Watkin was one of his brothers. He left the school at Pen-clun, Rhydypandy, at 12, and went to work in the local colliery and then in
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge Finals finding peace and quiet for study in the bomb damaged Cathedral not far from the rented accommodation his family shared with another family. The cathedral was to become his parish church and very close to his heart. He served on the regimental committee set up to build the Welch Regiment chapel (the St David's Chapel) where he is commemorated. He passed his Bar finals and was called to the Bar
WATKINS, VERNON PHILLIPS (1906 - 1967), poet Born 27 June 1906, at Maesteg, Glamorganshire, only son and second child of William Watkins (a native of Taff's Well), manager of Lloyd's Bank, and Sarah Watkins (née Phillips) of Sarnau, Carmarthenshire. Before Vernon was six the family had moved to Bridgend, to Llanelli and finally to Swansea. The boy entered Swansea Grammar School, but after one year was dispatched to prep. school at
WATTS, HELEN JOSEPHINE (1927 - 2009), singer Helen Watts was born in Milford Haven on 7 December 1927, the daughter of Thomas Watts, a pharmacist, and his wife Winifred (née Morgan). She grew up in Haverfordwest and attended St Mary and St Anne School, Abbot's Bromley, Staffordshire. There was music in the family: she started to play the piano at the age of seven, and her brother was a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral and later a choral

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