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WHITE, JOHN (1590 - 1645), Puritan Born 29 June 1590, the second son of Henry White of Henllan (Hentland) in the parish of Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire. He was descended from a family of Tenby merchants, one of whom, Thomas White, is said to have helped Henry Tudor to escape to Brittany in 1471. John White matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, on 20 November 1607, was admitted to the Inner Temple on 6 November 1610, and called
WHITEHEAD, LEWIS STANLEY (1889 - 1956), secretary of the Representative Body of the Church in Wales was recognized as the 'universal adviser' by the members of the ' Prayer Book and Nation Commission ', 1946-49; he administered the Church in Wales appeal in 1952-53, and the purchase of Bush House, one of the more successful investments by the Church in Wales in the property market. The later years were clouded by the long illness of his wife, Ada Marie (née Thomas). He died four months after her
WHITFORD, RICHARD (bu farw 1542?), priest and author it is thought that he was born at Whitford, Flintshire; he had an uncle of the same name who had an estate in Hopeland, which he left (with other property in Lancashire) to his nephew John Edwards, his sister's son; and it appears that another member of the family was Hugh Whitford who was rector of Whitford, 1537-60. Richard entered Queens' College, Cambridge, 1495, and was elected to a
WILIEMS, THOMAS (1545 or 1546 - 1622?) Trefriw, priest, scribe, lexicographer, and physician father was Wiliam ap Thomas ap Gronwy, who claimed descent from Ednowain Bendew; his mother was Catherine, natural daughter of Meredyth Wynn ap Evan ap Robert of Gwydir. It is probable that he received his early education at the Gwydir school (Sir John Wynn : Memoirs, 1827, 109); he then proceeded to Oxford. Anthony Wood says that he spent several years at Oxford, but is uncertain whether he is the
teulu WILKINS died in 1736, but this is very uncertain - a ' Wilkins ' signs as deputy from 1726 to 1736, and another (?) ' Wilkins ' from 1744 to 1758; the latter seems more likely to have been John Wilkins. He was thrice married; the children of his first marriage (whose associations were with Bristol) were the first to resume the surname ' de Winton.' By his second marriage, Thomas Wilkins was the father of
WILKINS, CHARLES (Catwg; 1830 - 1913), writer of Merthyr Tydfil Subscription Library for twenty years from its commencement in 1846. Thomas Stephens (Gwyddon) was secretary. He died at his residence, Springfield, Merthyr Tydfil, 2 August 1913. Wilkins wrote prolifically, and mostly for the weekly newspapers of Merthyr Tydfil and Cardiff. His chief works are: The History of Merthyr Tydfil, 1867 and 1908; The History of the Literature of Wales
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728 - 1808), 'father of the iron trade' John was the eldest son of ISAAC WILKINSON, a Cumbrian iron worker turned master in a small way. He was born at Clifton, Cumb., in 1728, and educated at the Dissenting Academy of Caleb Rotheram at Kendal. After working with his father from c. 1748 he found employment in Midland iron-works and himself established furnaces there in which coal was successfully used to displace charcoal. When, in
WILKS, JOHN (1764 or 1765 - 1854), attorney - gweler DAVIES, JOHN
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 served at Dover and Penzance. Next, being moved by the illiteracy of the masses, he started a school at Llanegryn, although he himself was unable to read - he used to get someone to help him to prepare for the next session of his school. Thomas Charles heard about him, and insisted on seeing him; he arranged for him to get a quarter's schooling, and then appointed him a paid teacher (at £3 a year
WILLIAM(S), ROBERT (1744 - 1815), poet, and farmer of Pandy Isaf, Tre Rhiwedog (Bala); born (according to his tombstone) in 1744. Hardly anything is known of his life. He learned the bardic craft from Rolant Huw, and became himself the teacher of Ioan Tegid (John Jones, 1792 - 1852) and others. He used to write 'C.C.' ('Friend of the Cymmrodorion') after his name, and wrote an elegy on the death of Richard Morris of Anglesey, and a cywydd on the
WILLIAM, THOMAS (1717 - 1765), Methodist exhorter and later Independent minister

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