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TREVOR, JOHN (bu farw 1410), bishop of St Asaph rewarded with high secular office in Wales. But he was one of the first to desert the ill-fated monarch, who was actually made captive in Trevor's own diocese, and it was the bishop himself who read the sentence of deposition in full Parliament. He continued prominent as a royal emissary and spokesman during the early years of the Lancastrian regime, and as late as 1403, long after the Glyn Dŵr revolt
TREW, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1926), Wales and Swansea rugby centre three-quarter
TROY, BLANCHE HERBERT (LADY TROY), (bu farw c. 1557), Lady Mistress of Elizabeth I, Edward VI and Queen Mary lion (i.e. William), gave hospitality to the old Earls.A welcome was given to the King, Henry VII,And his Earls; he was great once.She gave service all her life,To the one who is Queen today (i.e. Mary I) …. Blanche was one of the eleven co-heiresses (a son and daughter died young) of Simon Milborne and Jane (Baskerville) of Burghill, Herefordshire. The family had wide-spread connections. Sir William
TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456) , was born posthumously. Lewis Glyn Cothi and Dafydd Nanmor composed elegies upon him.
TUDOR, STEPHEN OWEN (1893 - 1967), minister (Presb.) and author Berw, Anglesey (1927-29), Tabernacl, Porthmadog (1929-35), and Moriah, Caernarfon (1935-62). During World War II he served as a chaplain in the army. After retiring, he moved to Colwyn Bay, supervising the churches at Llanddulas and Llysfaen. In 1927 he married Ann Hughes Parry of Machynlleth; they had two sons and two daughters. He died 30 June 1967 and his remains were buried at Llawr-y-glyn
TUDUR ALED (fl. 1480-1526), poet to the battle of Blackheath (1497) (see op. cit., I, iv, 5; vii, 56), while his editor thought he saw a reference to the battle of Bosworth (1485) in his cywydd to Sir William Gruffudd the Chamberlain (op. cit., I, xxxiii, 31-4, 49), from which he deduced that the poet must have started writing shortly before that as, according to the established custom of the bards, his earliest cywyddau would
TURNER, SHARON (1768 - 1847), solicitor and historian , in 1803, by publishing A Vindication of the Genuineness of the Ancient British Poems of Aneurin, Taliesin, Llywarch Hen, and Merdhin, with Specimens of the Poems. He was the first to discuss their antiquity, demonstrating the ignorance of the sceptics; see John Morris-Jones, Taliesin (= Cymm., xxviii). His letters to William Owen Pughe are in the National Library of Wales (NLW MS 13222C, NLW MS
TURNER, WILLIAM (1766 - 1853), pioneer of the North Wales slate industry Lancashire friends, Thomas Casson and William Casson, to join him in working the quarry. This was done, Hugh Jones, Hengwrt Ucha, Dolgelley, joining them in a company called ' William Turner and Co. '; for the subsequent history of the undertaking, see G. J. Williams, Hanes Plwyf Ffestiniog. His son, Sir Llewelyn Turner, in The Memories of Sir Llewelyn Turner (London, 1903), gives particulars of his
TURNOR, DAVID (1751? - 1799), cleric and agriculturist of Agriculture of the County of Cardigan, 1794. He purchased Wervilbrook in the parish of Llangrannog, and built the mansion there. He died 7 March 1799, and was buried at Llangoedmor. His wife (died 1802) was Catherine, daughter of William Haygarth, rector of Enham and Upton Grey, Hants. His brother, JOHN TURNOR, distinguished himself in the Royal Navy, and was captain of H.M.S. Trident when he
TWISLETON, GEORGE (1618 - 1667), officer in the parliamentary army third son of John Twisleton of Barley Hall, Yorkshire. He served under general Mytton; took part in the siege and capture of Denbigh castle, whereof he was made governor in 1647. Shortly afterwards he married Mary Glyn, daughter and heiress of William Glyn of Lleuar,, Caernarfonshire, and great-great-granddaughter of William Glyn ' the Sergeant ' (see the article Glyn of Glynllifon). Twisleton
VALENTINE, LEWIS EDWARD (1893 - 1986), Baptist minister, author and Welsh nationalist a direct result of his war experiences. Valentine returned to the university in Bangor in January 1919, where he lodged with his sister Hannah who kept a grocer's shop in the town with her husband. He graduated with a first-class in Semitic languages in June 1919, and was awarded the degree of MA two years later for a thesis on Welsh translations of the Book of Job by William Morgan and Richard
VAN HEYNINGEN, RUTH ELEANOR (1917 - 2019), biochemist was six and her maternal grandfather was a strong influence on her early life. After attending primary school in Newport, Ruth went to Cheltenham Ladies' College and then to Newnham College, Cambridge, where she graduated in biochemistry in 1940. In the same year she married William Edward 'Kits' van Heyningen (1911-1989), a biochemist from South Africa. They had two children, Simon (b. 1943) who

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