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NEWELL, RICHARD (1785 - 1852), farmer and Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Allt-y-ffynnon, Aberhavesp, Montgomeryshire, 23 March 1785, son of Richard Newell, farmer, and Bridget his wife. In 1786 the family moved to Gwernfyda, Llanllugan, where Richard attended the school kept by the Rev. John Davies and David Davies. Afterwards (1786) they moved to Bryn, Llanwyddelan, where the father died in 1800. After this the son attended the school kept by his uncle, John
NEWTON, LILY (1893 - 1981), scientist retirement and her appointment as Emeritus Professor, she continued to be active in this field until the 1970s as a consultant to Cremer and Warner (Sir Frederick Warner's engineering company) and Rio Tinto Zinc. She lived in Aberystwyth with her maid (also called Lily) in Cae Melyn until the end of the 1970s, and died at her godson's home in Pontardawe on 26 March 1981 at the age of 88.
NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister separation that occurred between these two forces: for his own reaction to the situation see the articles O fwg Morgannwg by O.K. ' that can be safely attributed to him in the period October 1907 - March 1908 in Y Piwritan Newydd (the magazine of the Baptists of south-west Wales). He was temporarily released from his pastorate in 1915 to serve with the Y.M.C.A. in France but within a year he accepted an
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party supporter of David Thomas who was doing similar propagnda work for the Labour Movement in Gwynedd. Nicholas stood shoulder to shoulder with British Socialist pioneers, sharing a platform with Bruce Glasier and Keir Hardie of the ILP. He became a favorite of the colliers of Glais, especially at Tynyfron, Llwyndu and Sisters Pit. During the disputes of the summer of 1905, and October 1909 to March 1910, and
NICHOLL, Sir JOHN (1759 - 1838), judge Born 16 March 1759, the second son of John Nicholl of Llan-maes, one of a family long established at Llan-maes and Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire. He was educated at Cowbridge and Bristol, and matriculated from S. John's College, Oxford, 27 June 1775 (B.C.L. 1780). He obtained the degree of D.C.L. on 6 April 1785, the essential qualification for admission to the exceedingly close corporation of
NICHOLLS, ERITH GWYN (1875 - 1939), Wales and Cardiff Rugby centre three-quarter of the Welsh 'Big Five.' He died 24 March 1939. On 26 December 1949, the gates, which were erected to his memory at Cardiff Arms Park, were officially opened.
NONN (fl. late 5th century), saint Cregrina (Llanbadarn-y-garreg) in Radnor, and Ilston in Glamorgan. The festival of S. Nonn was celebrated in Wales on 2 March.
NOVELLO, IVOR (1893 - 1951), composer, playwright, stage and film actor lived for the rest of his life, though he had a country home at Downley, Buckinghamshire, and later bought Redroofs, near Maidenhead. He died suddenly 6 March 1951, a bachelor at the height of his fame. Nearly the whole of his life was spent in a musical atmosphere. He was constantly busy, acting in films or plays - many of which were his own work - sometimes filming during the day, on stage in the
OLIVER, EDWARD (1720 - 1777), early Methodist and Moravian, a carpenter Born (according to a Moravian record) in Montgomeryshire, on Good Friday (15 April or 29 March) 1720. After working at Wrexham (Gomer M. Roberts, Peter Williams, 33), he removed to Llanbrynmair; he was an inconspicuous 'public exhorter' among the Methodists. In the disruption of 1750 he sided with Howel Harris; he was on mission for Harris in North Wales and was present at several of the
OLIVER(S), THOMAS (1725 - 1799), Wesleyan preacher office in 1789 for inefficiency. Yet the friendship between the two continued unabated, and when Oliver died in London, in March 1799, he was buried in Wesley's grave. Oliver wrote much, in prose and in verse, but is remembered today only for his hymn ' The God of Abram praise.' He was wont to visit Wales, and is probably the man whom Wesley, momentarily forgetting Harri Llwyd, described as his only
OULTON, WILFRID EWART (1911 - 1997), RAF officer studied languages and worked as an interpreter. The couple had three sons, two of whom joined the RAF, and the other the Royal Canadian Air Force. At Cranwell, Oulton had excelled in navigation, and when he returned to the UK in March 1936 he attended the School of Air Navigation, and became an instructor at the school in November of that year. He was promoted to squadron leader in December 1938 and was
OWAIN ap THOMAS ap RHODRI (bu farw 1378), soldier of fortune and pretender to the principality of Wales his life abroad, earning for himself, as ' Yevain de Galles ' or Owen of Wales, an outstanding reputation as a mercenary leader, not only in France, but in Lombardy and Brittany, Alsace, and Switzerland. His visit to England in the summer of 1365 was made in order to claim possession of his paternal inheritance (see Thomas ap Rhodri); but having secured the estate, he left again for France in March

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