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WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer ensured that she took him to all the meetings held at that church. Another strong influence on him was his uncle Job Richards, ' Eilab ', who had been a schoolmaster at the Llanelli copper works school and at Pontfathew (Bryn-crug today) near Tywyn, Meironnydd, before embarking on a course at Bodiwan College, Bala, under the tuition of Michael Daniel Jones and John Peter, and becoming the first minister
WALTERS, GARETH (1928 - 2012), composer recorded works include A Gwent suite (1959), Elegy (1969) for string orchestra, an overture, Primavera (1962), Little suite for harp and Capriccio for guitar (1980). He married Glenys Jones in 1969 and died at Kingston, Surrey on 31 May 2012.
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Irwyn Walters was born on 6 December 1902 in Ammanford, the second of six children of William Walters and his wife Elizabeth (née Morgan). His father kept a tobacconist and newsagent's shop at Clifton House on the town square; he was also a keen solfaist and precentor at the Ebeneser Baptist chapel. Irwyn received early instruction in music from Gwilym R. Jones (1874-1953), conductor of the
WALTERS, JOHN (1760 - 1789), cleric, poet, and scholar - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry. He attracted the attention of some London Welshmen, and, after the death of Richard Thomas (1753 - 1780) he was persuaded to publish the poems of Llywarch Hen, with a translation into English. Part of this translation appeared in Warrington, The History of Wales, 1788. Walters gave Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) some notes to be included in the introduction to his
WALTERS, JOHN (1721 - 1797), cleric and lexicographer between 1770 and 1783, but the remainder could not be printed until 1794, when Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr) arranged for the work to be completed in London. Walters coined a large number of words which have become established in the Welsh vocabulary, and he sought to show how to translate English idioms into Welsh. Two editions were published during the last century and this was the work which Daniel Silvan
WALTERS, THOMAS GLYN (WALTER GLYNNE; 1890 - 1970), tenor Born 4 January 1890 son of David and Elizabeth (née Jones) Walters, Cefngorwydd, Gowerton, Glamorganshire, and was educated at Gowerton Grammar School. He was a bank clerk until he decided to take up a musical career, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London in 1910. He served in the Welsh Guards during World War I. In 1921, on the recommendation of Sir Landon Ronald, HMV's
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet was permitted to retain his military rank when the regiment was disbanded. For some years after this he was engaged in various ventures in Caernarvonshire. He had already married Ellen Elizabeth Parry, one of the two co-heiresses of Love Parry of Madryn; his brother-in-law was Thomas Parry Jones (afterwards ' Jones-Parry ') of Llwyn Onn, Wrexham (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 224). By this marriage
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
WATKIN-JONES, ELIZABETH (1887 - 1966), author of children's books born 13 July 1887 in Nefyn, Caernarfonshire, the only daughter of Henry and Jane Parry. Her father was a sea captain who was drowned in South America before his daughter saw him. She was educated in the school in Nefyn, Pwllheli county school, and in the Normal College, Bangor, and then became an infants teacher in Aberdare, Onllwyn, Porthmadog, Trefriw, and Nefyn. She married John Watkin-Jones
WATKINS, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister believed to have been born in Llangynidr, Brecknock - he was one of the trustees of the first Baptist meeting-house at that place in 1794 (D. Jones, Bed. Deheubarth, 655), and he may have been the son of the Howell Watkins, at whose house the Baptists used previously to meet (op. cit., 811). But the Llangynidr Baptists were formally members at Llanwenarth, and it was there that Joshua Watkins was
WATKINS, Sir PERCY EMERSON (1871 - 1946), civil servant ) Mary Jane Jones of Llanfyllin, and had one son. In 1930 he was knighted and received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Wales. Lady Watkins died in 1939, and in 1941 he married (2) Lil Bush (née Lewis). He died 5 May 1946. In addition to various articles and memoranda he published his autobiography in 1944 under the title A Welshman Remembers.
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge industry and medical negligence; his practice in the criminal courts included the prosecution of the members of the Free Wales Army at the Swansea Assizes in 1969. His appearances in public inquiries included the Tribunal into the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, when he appeared as deputy to the Attorney General, Sir Elwyn Jones as counsel to the Tribunal and as such assumed the burdensome responsibility of

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