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THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary to lord Vernon, and was also on the most intimate terms of friendship with the duke of Beaufort. He was a good Celtic scholar and was well-versed in Oriental languages. He is said to have been a friend of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir), and to have been responsible in some measure for inducing the latter to proceed with and complete his Dissertatio de Bardis.
TILLEY, ALBERT (1896 - 1957), mace-bearer at Brecon cathedral and local historian Born 8 September 1896 at Norton Arms, Widnes, Lancashire, one of the seven children of Edmund Valentine and Caroline (née Hawkins) Tilley. He was educated until he was aged fifteen at Simmer Cross school, Widnes. Then he moved to Liverpool and in 1914 joined the army. He was wounded on the Somme. He was sent to Brecon to recuperate where he met and subsequently married Constance Mary Watkins and
teulu TREVOR Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, February, the baronetcy thereupon becoming extinct. Sir JOHN TREVOR II (died 1673), parliamentarian Politics, Government and Political Movements Public and Social Service, Civil Administration The eldest son of Sir John Trevor I, from whom he inherited Plas Têg and who tried unsuccessfully to find him a Welsh wife at Gwydir (1615). In 1619 he married a daughter of Sir Edmund Hampden (later one of the
TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456)
TUDOR, JASPER (c. 1431 - 1495), earl of Pembroke second son of Owain Tudor and Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V; for the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. Born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, he was brought up at the convent of Barking, Essex, with his elder brother, Edmund, and their interests appear to have been fostered under the kindly eye of their royal half-brother, Henry VI. In 1452-3 Jasper was
teulu VAUGHAN Bredwardine, VAUGHAN was slain by an arrow at Hereford, according to his elegy by Hywel Swrdwal. This elegy does not support the suggestion made by Evans (Wales and the Wars of the Roses, 128-9) that this incident took place at the battle of Mortimer's Cross. Watkin's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry Wogan. He is described in the pedigree books as lord of Bredwardine, Cwm, Tir Ralph, Llechryd, and the
teulu VAUGHAN Tretower Court, ) THOMAS VAUGHAN, Roger Vaughan - see Vaughan family of Porthaml - and four daughters who married into prominent families, the wives of Robert Raglan, Henry Donne, Morgan Gamage, and Morgan ap Thomas ap Gruffudd ap Nicolas. His second wife was Margaret, lady Powis, daughter of James, lord Audley, by his second wife, Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Edmund, earl of Kent. (Her first husband, Sir Richard
teulu VAUGHAN Hergest, Kington of the heir to the duchy of Buckingham. Like his brothers, however, he joined the Yorkists. He is found with them on commissions of oyer and terminer in North Wales in 1467, and it was with their forces that he marched to his death at the field of Edgecote, near Banbury, in 1469. There is some uncertainty about the date of his death. Evans (Wales and the Wars of the Roses, 177), on the grounds of
VAUGHAN, BENJAMIN NOEL YOUNG (1917 - 2003), Anglican priest Benjamin Vaughan was born on 25 December 1917 in Newport, Pembrokeshire, the son of James O. Vaughan (b. 1877), an alderman in the town, and his wife Elizabeth (née Lewis, b. 1877). He was educated at St David's College, Lampeter, where he took a first in Classics and then at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he achieved a second in Theology. He completed ministerial training at Westcott House
VAUGHAN, HILDA CAMPBELL (1892 - 1985), author undying hatred. The estate, Plâs Einon, means everything to her and she is willing to sacrifice anything to ensure its survival in the family. The plot echoes that of an earlier novel by Vaughan, The Invader (1928), in which the English incomer and inheritor of the estate of Plas Newydd is a woman, Miss Webster, and her antagonist is the Welshman Daniel Evans; however, the earlier novel takes the form
VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library emigrated to Pennsylvania; HUGH VAUGHAN, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Meyrick of Ucheldre; and GRIFFITH VAUGHAN who had Dolmelynllyn and who married Catherine, daughter of John ap Robert ap John ap Lewis ap Meredith of Glynmaelda; MARGARET, who married (1) William Price, rector of Dolgelley, and (2) Robert Vaughan, son of Tudor Vaughan of Caerynwch; JANE, who married Robert Owen (died 1685
teulu VINCENT College, Oxford, in 1849; he was perpetual curate of S. Anne's, Llandygai, 1857-9, and was then appointed vicar of Llanbeblig (Caernarvon), where he died 8 September 1869 as a result of his self-sacrifice during a cholera epidemic. His sons (by Grace Elizabeth, daughter of William Johnson, rector of Llan-faethlu) call for notice. The eldest, JAMES EDMUND VINCENT (1857 - 1909), whose career is fully

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