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VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist Lewis Valentine was born on 1 June 1893 in a house named 'Hillside' in Clip Terfyn street, Llanddulas, Denbighshire, the second of the seven children of Samuel Valentine (1854-1940), a quarryman who was a Baptist lay preacher, and his wife Mary (née Roberts, 1865-1928). He had three brothers, Richard, Idwal and Stanley, and three sisters, Hannah, Nel and Lilian. Bethesda chapel in Llanddulas was
teulu VAUGHAN Llwydiarth, of Llwydiarth, Llangedwyn, and Glan-llyn were again carried by Anne, daughter and heiress of Edward Vaughan, to her husband Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart. of Wynnstay, whose mother, Jane Thelwall, heir of Plas-y-ward, was herself fifth in descent from John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth (above). In Mont. Coll., xiv, is an illustrated article on the thirty armorial shields originally on the Vaughan
teulu VAUGHAN Pant Glas, elder daughter) who married into the Williams family of Marl; as her brothers and her sister died without heirs the Pant Glas lands were absorbed into the Marl estate, and the remainder of the story will be found under that heading. Another member of the family is deserving of mention, namely RICHARD VAUGHAN (1621 - 1700) - erroneously stated by Griffith to be a son of Henry Vaughan (I), but it is by
teulu VAUGHAN Hergest, Kington Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Croft. Their heir, CHARLES VAUGHAN, was Member of Parliament for Radnorshire, 1553. His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir James Baskerville of Eardisley, and the second Margaret, daughter of Sir William Vaughan of Porthaml, and widow of Roger Vaughan of Clyro. According to W. R. Williams, Robert Vaughan, sheriff of Radnorshire, 1562-3 and 1567-8, and
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Glamorgan alone he was the architect for some forty-five churches, most designed in the cheap and simple Early English Gothic style which characterised his first creation, St Mary Magdalene's church, Cwmbach dating from 1881/2. Few were regarded at the time, or since, as architectural gems, being primarily intended as workmanlike buildings to serve the mining communities of south Wales with limited funds
VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Millingchamp; on Millingchamp and the MSS. see his 'Life and Letters of the Venerable Benjamin Millingchamp' (now NLW MSS 13915-13916B) and H. Ethé, N.L.W. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts (1916). He was an authority on bookplates, helping to catalogue the Sir Evan Davies Jones collection and cataloguing for the National Library (1938) the Aneurin Williams collection. During his sojourn in Italy he had
VAUGHAN, RICE (bu farw 1670), lawyer and author Second son (and, from 1654, heir) of Henry Vaughan, Gelli-goch, Machynlleth, and his wife Mary, daughter of Maurice Wynn, Glyn, near Harlech. He went to Shrewsbury school in July 1615, was admitted to Gray's Inn, 13 August 1638, and was called to the Bar on 20 June 1648. In the meantime he had been assisting the Parliament side, e.g. in June 1644 he was appointed a member of the committee for
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library manuscripts ever assembled by an individual. It remained at Hengwrt until 1859, when it passed by the will of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan to W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth. The purchase of the reversion of the Hengwrt-Peniarth library to Aberystwyth by Sir John Williams in 1905 was one of the deciding factors for establishing the National Library of Wales there. Robert Vaughan also collected books, but they
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist later sources give the names of his sons as John, Edward, Arthur, and Gabriel, and in addition to the three daughters named above a fourth daughter, Mary, is included, who married Peter Price, Cynllwyd, fourth son of Thomas Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. In accordance with family tradition Rowland Vaughan played a prominent part in the public life of the county and, like his father, who was sheriff
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure . His career reached its climax when the channel produced a series of programmes on the history of Wales under the title, When was Wales? which invited an academic historian of great talent, Professor Gwyn Alf Williams and Vaughan-Thomas to discuss and argue on the history of the Welsh people from two different standpoints. Vaughan-Thomas defended the traditional, liberal approach to the saga, while
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London Born at Wrexham in 1764, the son of John Waithman, of Warton, Lancashire, a joiner at the Bersham furnace, and of his wife, Mary (Roberts). He served in a linen-draper's shop in London, and, about 1786, opened a shop of his own, first in Fleet Market, and then at 103 and 104 Fleet Street. He married, on 14 July 1787, his cousin, Mary Davis. He amassed a considerable fortune. Under the influence
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral Born 4 February 1871, third son of Major Clement Walker Heneage, V.C., 8th Hussars, of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, and Henrietta Letitia Victoria, daughter of John Henry Vivian of Singleton, Swansea. He married (1) in 1912 Helen Mary, daughter of Capt. E. de V. du Boulay, late R.H.A. and they had three daughters, Mary, Anne and Rhoda (they divorced in 1931); married (2) in 1931 Beryl, daughter of

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