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VIVIAN, HENRY HUSSEY (first baron Swansea), (1821 - 1894), industrialist and patentee of metallurgical processes of the chief promoters of the Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway. He was Liberal Member of Parliament for Truro, Cornwall, from 1852-7, Glamorgan 1857-85, and Swansea 1885-93. He was created a baronet, 13 May 1882, and on 9 June 1893, became the first baron Swansea. He was the author of Notes of a Tour in America, 1878. He died at Singleton Park, 28 November 1894, and was buried in Sketty churchyard.
WATCYN CLYWEDOG (fl. c. 1630-1650), poet reconciliatory poems according to the conventional manner. One of his elegies was written on the death of colonel Richard Bulkeley of Baron Hill, killed in a duel with Thomas Cheadle on Lavan Sands, 19 February 1649/50. He also wrote a poem to a new house built by Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd in 1630. His poetry bears testimony to the persistence of bardic patronage in these shires.
WATKINS of GLANTAWE, Baron - gweler WATKINS, TUDOR ELWYN
WATKINS, TUDOR ELWYN (Baron Watkins of Glantawe), (1903 - 1983), Labour politician Board, the Brecon and Radnor Hospital Management Committee, the Civil Aviation Advisory Committee for Wales, and the Mid-Wales Industrial Development Association. He was created Baron Watkins of Glantawe (life peerage) in 1972. After his retirement from parliament, Watkins devoted much of his time to serve local government; he was an alderman and chairman of the Breconshire County Council. In 1970 he
WEBBER, Sir ROBERT JOHN (1884 - 1962), managing director of Western Mail and Echo Limited Born 14 November 1884, the eldest son of Charles and Hannah Webber of Barry, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Barry County School and Cardiff Science and Art School. His first job was as a clerk in the general manager's office of the Barry Railway from where, in 1908 at the age of 24, he was one of 300 applicants for the post of private secretary in Fleet Street to George Riddell (later Baron
WEST, DANIEL GRANVILLE (Baron Granville-West of Pontypool), (1904 - 1984), Labour politician member of the Abercarn UDC, 1934-38, and the Monmouthshire CC, 1938-47. He was elected Labour MP for the Pontypool division in a by-election in July 1946, continuing to serve until he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Granville-West of Pontypool in 1958. His successor as Labour MP for Pontypool was Leo Abse. West served as president of the South Wales and Monmouthshire branch of the Probation
WILLIAMS, DAVID REES (1st BARON OGMORE), (1903 - 1976), politician and lawyer took part, almost immediately on his return. Re-arrangement of the parliamentary constituencies in Coventry meant that Rees-Williams stood for Coventry West at the 1950 general election. He failed, by a small number of votes, to gain this seat, but returned to politics when he was given a barony in the June honours list. He chose, after the river that runs through Bridgend, the title of Baron Ogmore
WILLIAMS, GARETH WYN (Baron Williams of Mostyn), (1941 - 2003), lawyer and politician
WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith namesake, the ' Sir John Williams, maister of the kinges jewels,' whose house, so Stow says (Survey of London, Everyman ed., 264), was burnt down in 1541. This ' Baron Williams of Thame ' (1500? - 1569) is fully dealt with in D.N.B.; he was keeper of Henry VIII's jewels, 1531-44. He was of Welsh descent - from William ap Grono of Glamorgan (Clark, Limbus Patrum, 127-8), but had no contact with Wales
WILLIAMS, Baron Williams of Thame JOHN (1500? - 1569), custodian of the crown jewels of Henry VIII - gweler WILLIAMS, JOHN
WILLIAMS, OWEN (Owain Gwyrfai; 1790 - 1874), antiquary taught him the rules of prosody. Owen Gwyrfai's awdl on 'Baron Richards' was judged to be the best at the Cymreigyddion eisteddfod held at Caernarvon in 1824. He edited a life of Peter Williams (1723 - 1796), which was published in 1817, and in 1820 published a metrical version of the Song of Solomon. After 1830 his labours were directed to producing a Welsh dictionary, Geirlyfr Cymraeg, which he
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM THOMAS (4th EARL of DUNRAVEN AND MOUNT-EARL in the Irish peerage, 2nd Baron KENRY of the United Kingdom), (1841 - 1926), Glamorgan landowner and politician, sportsman and author

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