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VAUGHAN, EDWARD (bu farw 1661), Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple A fairly exhaustive account of his career is given by Rees L. Lloyd; what follows here is only a summary. He was the fourth son of Owen Vaughan, Llwydiarth, Montgomeryshire and Catherine, sole heiress of Maurice ap Robert, Llangedwyn. Like his three brothers, John Vaughan, Sir Robert Vaughan, and Roger Vaughan, he became a member of the Inner Temple, being admitted 12 November 1618 (but was not
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect collaborated with academic staff from the medical school in preparing a memorandum, 'Proposed completion of the Medical School', for meetings with representatives of the University of Wales and the Treasury led by David Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, in the spring of 1914. At one of these meetings Bruce Vaughan revealed the intention of Sir William James Thomas to increase his beneficence to the
VAUGHAN, Sir GRUFFUDD (bu farw 1447), soldier death of the young knight was not regarded as an accident. His son, Reynold, and David Lloyd (who could have been his nephew or a person of the same name who was his second cousin), shared his outlawry for treason. Sir Henry Grey, earl of Tancarville, managed to entice him into Powys castle by means of a safe conduct (according to his elegy by Dafydd Llwyd) on 9 July 1447, and he was there
VAUGHAN, HENRY (1621 - 1695), poet and for a time acted as secretary to judge Sir Marmaduke Lloyd. There is reason to think that he then fought for the king. He is known to have returned home by 1647. About 1650 he was converted to a religious life under the influence of George Herbert. This inclination was reinforced by the death of his brother William; his own illness intensified Vaughan's gravity. As an ardent Royalist he was
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1871 - 1956), general Guard during World War II, and was Deputy Lieutenant of Merionethshire from 1943 until 1954. He also served as a J.P. for the county. He published a volume of reminiscences entitled Cavalry and sporting memoirs (1955), where he was harsh in his condemnation of David Lloyd George's leadership during World War I. He was much interested in fishing and hunting. Vaughan married on 22 October 1913 Louisa
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library Siôn Cain, Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd, Evan Lloyd Jeffrey of Palé, John Jones of Gellilyfdy (whose manuscripts became his property in 1658), Meredith Lloyd of Welshpool, William Maurice of Cefn-y-braich, the Wynne family of Gwydir, Sir Simonds d'Ewes, John Selden, James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh, and others. The library of manuscripts which he collected at Hengwrt is the finest collection of Welsh
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure Wynford Vaughan-Thomas was born on the 15 August 1908 at 9 Calvert Terrace, Swansea, the second of the three sons of the well-known musician Dr David Vaughan-Thomas and his wife Morfydd Lewis. He attended Swansea Grammar School where the father of Dylan Thomas taught him and where the poet was a student. Wynford and Dylan became close friends, and later he was appointed the literary executor of
WADE, GEORGE WOOSUNG (1858 - 1941), cleric, professor, and author
WADE-EVANS, ARTHUR WADE (1875 - 1964), clergyman and historian Wales (1956, 1959). He did much work on the history of the Celtic church, Welsh Christian Origins (1934), Parochiale Wallicanum (1911), a useful list of Welsh churches and chapelries, and on the lives of the saints in articles in Y Cymmrodor and Archaeologia Cambrensis. He provided a full analysis and translation of the Latin text in Life of St. David (1923) and published a number of Latin and Welsh
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, EVAN JOHN (1893 - 1951), artist when it was unusual to buy original art. At the Swansea national eisteddfod of 1926 he won a prize for a painting of Pennard castle, receiving high praise from his adjudicator, Augustus John. His portraits often showed coal miners and local people, but he also had prominent figures sitting for him, such as David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Lord Balfour, Rear Admiral Walker Heneage (later Walker
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator Ammanford choral society, and later studied with David Vaughan Thomas. He was the first pupil at Amman Valley County School to study music for the Higher Certificate, but at Aberystwyth he first took a degree in French before graduating in music. While at school he had formed a trio with his brother Merfyn on the cello and Rae Jenkins (1903-1985), later a well-known conductor, as violinist. As a student

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