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teulu VAUGHAN Tretower Court, September 1477. One of the earliest records of the heir, (Sir) THOMAS VAUGHAN, is that he was a trustee for the king's debt to his uncle, William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, 6 December 1468. He was on commissions of 'oyer et terminer,' etc., in South Wales in 1471/2. He was granted appointments in the lordship of Gower during the minority of Anne, heiress of John, duke of Norfolk, 7 October 1480. He gave
VAUGHAN, EDWIN MONTGOMERY BRUCE (1856 - 1919), architect Glamorgan alone he was the architect for some forty-five churches, most designed in the cheap and simple Early English Gothic style which characterised his first creation, St Mary Magdalene's church, Cwmbach dating from 1881/2. Few were regarded at the time, or since, as architectural gems, being primarily intended as workmanlike buildings to serve the mining communities of south Wales with limited funds
VAUGHAN, JOHN (1871 - 1956), general Born 31 July 1871, the second son of John Vaughan, Nannau, Dolgellau, Merionethshire (he died in 1900) and Elinor Anne, daughter of Edward Owen, Garthyngharad, Dolgellau. The family could trace its descent from the Welsh princes of the middle ages. Vaughan was educated at Eton and at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. He joined the Seventh Hussars in 1891 and served in the Matabele relief
VAUGHAN, Sir JOHN (1603 - 1674), judge , Anne and Lucy. There are two oil portraits of the chief justice in Wales, one at Gwysaney and the other on loan to the N.L.W.
VAUGHAN, RICE (bu farw 1670), lawyer and author Second son (and, from 1654, heir) of Henry Vaughan, Gelli-goch, Machynlleth, and his wife Mary, daughter of Maurice Wynn, Glyn, near Harlech. He went to Shrewsbury school in July 1615, was admitted to Gray's Inn, 13 August 1638, and was called to the Bar on 20 June 1648. In the meantime he had been assisting the Parliament side, e.g. in June 1644 he was appointed a member of the committee for
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist later sources give the names of his sons as John, Edward, Arthur, and Gabriel, and in addition to the three daughters named above a fourth daughter, Mary, is included, who married Peter Price, Cynllwyd, fourth son of Thomas Prys, Plas Iolyn, Denbighshire. In accordance with family tradition Rowland Vaughan played a prominent part in the public life of the county and, like his father, who was sheriff
WAITHMAN, ROBERT (1764 - 1833), lord mayor of London Born at Wrexham in 1764, the son of John Waithman, of Warton, Lancashire, a joiner at the Bersham furnace, and of his wife, Mary (Roberts). He served in a linen-draper's shop in London, and, about 1786, opened a shop of his own, first in Fleet Market, and then at 103 and 104 Fleet Street. He married, on 14 July 1787, his cousin, Mary Davis. He amassed a considerable fortune. Under the influence
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral Born 4 February 1871, third son of Major Clement Walker Heneage, V.C., 8th Hussars, of Compton Bassett, Wiltshire, and Henrietta Letitia Victoria, daughter of John Henry Vivian of Singleton, Swansea. He married (1) in 1912 Helen Mary, daughter of Capt. E. de V. du Boulay, late R.H.A. and they had three daughters, Mary, Anne and Rhoda (they divorced in 1931); married (2) in 1931 Beryl, daughter of
WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL (1823 - 1913), naturalist and social reformer Born 8 January, 1823, Kensington Cottage, Usk, Gwent, son of Thomas Vere Wallace and Mary Anne (n. Greenell). When Wallace was three years old the family moved to England where the young Alfred Russel attended school at Hertford. Aged 13 he moved to live with his brother John in London. Some years later he moved to live with his other brother, William, who was already established as a land
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II Rotterdam on 9 April 1649. Lucy also had a daughter, Mary, born at the Hague on 6 May 1651. In 1656 she returned to London and was arrested as a suspected spy and lodged, with her maid Anne Hill, in the Tower. Her defence was that she had come to collect a legacy of £1,500 left her by her mother, who had recently died. She was discharged and ordered to be deported. Charles II, who acknowledged the
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer Job and Mary (née Dyer) Richards of Waun-lwyd, Saron, Llandybïe. The two cousins went to the Memorial College, Brecon, and Eurof pursued a degree course at the University College, Cardiff, where he obtained a first class in Hebrew and Greek. For three years successively he was awarded a scholarship. With the Dan Isaac Davies scholarship for three years he took an honours course in Welsh. He received
WARNER, MARY WYNNE (1932 - 1998), mathematician Mary Warner was born in Carmarthen on 22 June 1932, the elder of the two daughters of Sydney Davies (1901-1978), a mathematics teacher later to become a headteacher, and his wife Esther (née Jones, 1899-1982). Mary received her primary education in Carmarthen before the family moved to Llandovery where she attended the local grammar school, later moving to live in Holywell and studied for her A

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