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WILLIAMS, WILLIAM JOHN (1878 - 1952), H.M. Inspector of Schools and Director of the Council of Social Service for Wales and Monmouthshire Born 1878, the fourth son of Richard and Anne Williams, Hafod, Swansea. His brother Richard Trefor Williams, O.B.E., (who died in 1932) was the Chief Inspector of the Ministry of Health at Cardiff. Educated at schools in Swansea and at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated LL.B. and M.A., he was a schoolmaster at Gowerton County School, Bootle Intermediate School and
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM MATTHEWS (1885 - 1972), musician Born 9 December 1885 at Pen y Bonc, Burwen, near Amlwch, Anglesey, the son of Richard and Ellen Williams, Victoria House, Amlwch. He showed musical promise at an early age. Encouraged by the local schoolmaster John Matthews, his parents bought him a small American organ, which he taught himself to play, and by the age of eight he was a regular accompanist at services in Capel Mawr, Amlwch. In
WILLIAMS, Sir WILLIAM RICHARD (1879 - 1961), railway traffic inspector
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM RICHARD (1896 - 1962), minister (Presb.) and Principal of the United Theological College, Aberystwyth Born 4 April 1896 at Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, son of Richard and Catherine Williams, his mother of the lineage of Siarl Marc of Bryncroes. He was educated at Penlleiniau church day-school and Pwllheli County School. He won a Mrs Clarke Scholarship, enabling him to enter University College, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with first-class honours in Greek and second class in philosophy. His
WILSON, RICHARD (1713 - 1782), landscape painter A member of the Wilson family of Bwlch-y-llyn and Y Ffinnant, Trefeglwys, Montgomeryshire., one of the old Welsh families of Arwystli. HUGH WILSON, M.A. (1651 - 1687), vicar Religion of Trefeglwys (1674) and also of Llangurig (1676), was the son of RICHARD (died 1688) and Joanna (died 1678) Wilson, Bwlch-y-llyn, Trefeglwys. He married (1679) Maria (died 1688), widow of William Lloyd, Maes-bangor
teulu WOGAN 15th century HENRY WOGAN of Milton, son of Sir John Wogan of Wiston, married Margaret Dyer of Boulston, and from this union the Wogans of Boulston were descended. JOHN WOGAN, son of Richard Wogan of Boulston by his wife Matilda, daughter of Sir Thomas Phillips of Cil-sant, was sheriff for Pembrokeshire in 1566, 1574, 1584, and 1598? and Member of Parliament for the county in 1545-7, 1553 (Williams
teulu WOOD, Welsh gipsies Music Performing Arts He is said by some to have been born on the roadside near Barmouth; he was christened at Llanfihangel-y-Traethau, 6 April 1800. He was taught to play the harp by his father and by Richard Roberts of Caernarvon (1769 - 1855), and became one of the most celebrated harpists of his tribe and, indeed, of the country; he was generally known as ' John Jones.' He was at one time family
WOOD, MARY MYFANWY (1882 - 1967), missionary in China, 1908-51 Born 16 September 1882 in London. Her father (Richard Maldwyn) was from Machynlleth and her mother (Hannah) from Swansea; they had four children. Her parents became members at the Borough Welsh Congregational chapel in London and she was accepted into full membership there in 1896. She received her early education in Dulwich and then went to St. Mary's College, Cheltenham training to be an
WOOD, RONALD KARSLAKE STARR (1919 - 2017), botanist into diseases in agricultural crops was his first taste of plant pathology, and he also carried out work at the Ministry of Aircraft Production during the war years. In 1945 he was appointed an assistant lecturer at Imperial, gaining his PhD in 1948 for a study of biological control of a soil-borne pathogen. He married Marjorie Schofield (1925-2014) in 1947, and they had a son Richard and a daughter
WYNDHAM-QUIN, WINDHAM HENRY (5th EARL DUNRAVEN and MOUNT-EARL), (1857 - 1952), soldier and politician 1940. They had two sons and a daughter. He spent his last years at his home Adare Manor, Limerick. He died 23 October 1952 at his home in Limerick aged 95. His heir was his elder son Richard Southwell Windham Robert, Viscount Adare (1887 - 1965).
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 connected by marriage with the Carnes of Ewenny, the Thomases of Llanfihangel and the Vivians of Swansea. His father, Edwin Richard Windham Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven, was M.P. for Glamorgan, 1837-1850. His mother was Augusta, daughter of Thomas Goold, master in chancery in Ireland. Owing to his father's conversion to Roman Catholicism (although the son remained a Protestant), he was educated
teulu WYNN Cesail Gyfarch, Penmorfa , married Jane (Lloyd), Dulasau, and by her was the father of (a) ROBERT WYNN (died January 1685/6), the heir, (b) MARGARET (1618 - 1679), who married Richard Humphreys (died 1699), Hendre Gwenllian, Penrhyndeudraeth, and (c) two other daughters. Robert Wynn, who was a barrister-at-law, left Cesail Gyfarch to his nephew, bishop Humphrey Humphreys, son of his sister Margaret and of Richard Humphreys. The

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