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WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited general manager of the newspapers and of Tudor Printing Works and, within three months, to a seat on the board, and later a director for life and joint-managing director with Sir William Davies (editor 1901-31) a position which he held for 32 years to 1955. In 1937, he was elected to the board of Allied (later Kemsley) Newspapers, owners of the Western Mail. Soon after his arrival in Cardiff, he had to
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 10 March 1841 at Cae-esgob, Llanberis, to John and Mary Wheldon. His parents moved early to Llwyncelyn, where his mother exercised spiritual graces and his father a vigorous independence. Educated at the British School (Capel Coch), he became a pupil teacher. He entered Bala C.M. College in 1857, graduated in the University of London, 1864, but rejected an offer of appointment in the Indian
WHELDON, Sir WYNN POWELL (1879 - 1961), lawyer, soldier, administrator Born 22 December 1879, son of the Rev. Thomas Jones Wheldon and Mary Elinor Powell, Bronygraig, Ffestiniog, Meironnydd. He was educated at Friars School, Bangor, the High School, Oswestry, the University College of North Wales - he was the first secretary of the Students' Representative Council, 1899 - B.A. 1900, and at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B., 1903, M.A. in 1920). In 1906
WILDE, WILLIAM JAMES (1892 - 1969), boxer, world flyweight champion (1916-23) Born 12 May 1892 in Quakers Yard, Merthyr Tydfil, the son of James and Margaret Wilde. When he was four years old the family moved to 8 Station Road, Pontygwaith, Tylorstown, Rhondda, Glamorganshire. When still young he showed considerable toughness in defending himself in street fights and when he began work at the local colliery, he worked with Dai Davies, an old mountain fighter, who taught
WILIAM LLYN (1534 or 1535 - 1580) Llŷn, poet separated as those of Caehywel, Salop; Penmynydd, Anglesey; Madryn and Bodwrda, Llŷn; Golden Grove and Abermarlais in the vale of Towy; and Aberbrân, Brecknock. He also sang the praises of a number of clergymen, among them those of Wiliam Hughes, bishop of St Asaph, and Richard Davies, bishop of S. Davids, whose palace at Abergwili he said he had visited. In his elegy on his friend Owain ap Gwilym, the
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician , unlikely that he studied medicine at Oxford as Wood seems to imply. His letters of advice to Sir John Wynn suggests that he was an unorthodox practitioner, in the old folk-medicine tradition, rather than a product of the Oxford faculty of Medicine. Nevertheless, he seems to have been held in high esteem as a physician, for Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd refers to him as a 'doctor of note among his own
teulu WILKINS . Mary church (Llan-fair), Glamorganshire. The last-named Thomas Wilkins went to Jesus College, Oxford, in 1641, and took a law degree in 1661; in addition to S. Mary church he also held the rectories of Gelli-gaer (1666) and Llan-maes (1668), and a prebend at Llandaff. He died 20 August 1699, aged 74. He had married Jane, daughter of Thomas Carne of Nash and grand-daughter of Sir Edward Stradling of S
WILLANS, JOHN BANCROFT (1881 - 1957), country landowner, antiquarian and philanthropist of Dolforgan, Kerry, Montgomeryshire, J.P., F.S.A.; born 27 May 1881 in Liverpool, only child of John William Willans (1843 - 1895), chief engineer of Liverpool Overhead Railway, and of Mary Louisa née Nicholson (1847 - 1911), grandson of Benjamin Willans (1816 - 1895) of Blaina, Monmouth. He was educated partly by private tutors, including Sir Leonard Woolley, and partly at Haileybury. He lived
WILLIAM(S), LEWIS (1774 - 1862), peripatetic teachers , subsequently raised to £4) in his circulating schools. Lewis worked in this capacity in various places in the hundred of Merioneth for the next twenty-five years; among his pupils may be mentioned Mary Jones (the girl who got the Bible from Thomas Charles) and Roger Edwards. He learned to read Welsh, to understand elementary arithmetic, and to some extent to follow English; his reports were detailed. He also
teulu WILLIAMS Gwernyfed, through his influence that Harris obtained a captaincy in the Brecknock militia; some of the correspondence between the two is preserved in the Trevecka collection. As his only son, Edward, had predeceased him, Gwernyfed was inherited by his daughter, MARY WILLIAMS. She married Thomas Wood of Middlesex; their son, THOMAS WOOD (1777 - 1860), was Member of Parliament for Brecknock from 1806 to 1847
WILLIAMS, Y Fonesig ALICE MATILDA LANGLAND (Alys Mallt, Y Fonesig Mallt Williams; 1867 - 1950), author and celtophile to the annual St. David's Day fund of the Blaid. She was a stalwart supporter of the campaign against the establishment of a training camp for the Royal Air Force at Porth Neigwl and Penyberth; and it was she who coined the name Ysgol Fomio ('bombing school'). She was a strict vegetarian and a disciple of Mary Baker Eddy. She died 28 October 1950 at Plas Pantsaeson and was cremated at Pontypridd
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN (Gwynionydd; 1821 - 1891), cleric and author Born 24 June 1821 at Seilach in the parish of Penbryn, Cardiganshire. He was a cousin to D. Silvan Evans. Originally a Congregationalist, he joined the Established Church. He received some education at Fishguard, and became master of a Madam Bevan school. In 1874 he was ordained deacon, becoming curate to his patron, D. H. Davies, incumbent of Troed-yr-aur; later he was preferred to the living of

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