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VAUGHAN, ROBERT (1592? - 1667), antiquary, collector of the famous Hengwrt library manuscripts ever assembled by an individual. It remained at Hengwrt until 1859, when it passed by the will of Sir Robert Williames Vaughan to W. W. E. Wynne of Peniarth. The purchase of the reversion of the Hengwrt-Peniarth library to Aberystwyth by Sir John Williams in 1905 was one of the deciding factors for establishing the National Library of Wales there. Robert Vaughan also collected books, but they
VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist Williams Wynn, about 1740. The above article on Rowland Vaughan deals with the most notable member of this family and refers to some of his forbears and descendants. The object of the present note is to draw attention to some literary and historical references to the family, and particularly to Rowland Vaughan, in the poems of ' Phylip family of Ardudwy '. Rhisiart Phylip, who was ' family bard ' at
VAUGHAN-THOMAS, LEWIS JOHN WYNFORD (1908 - 1987), broadcaster, author and public figure . His career reached its climax when the channel produced a series of programmes on the history of Wales under the title, When was Wales? which invited an academic historian of great talent, Professor Gwyn Alf Williams and Vaughan-Thomas to discuss and argue on the history of the Welsh people from two different standpoints. Vaughan-Thomas defended the traditional, liberal approach to the saga, while
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral Margaret Lindsay Williams in 1931.
WALTERS, DAVID (EUROF; 1874 - 1942), minister (Congl.) and writer of Moriah (Congl.), Tŷ-croes. Eurof Walters had for a time been a clerk with the Merthyr-Brecon Railway Company, before being apprenticed at Tracy's shop in Morriston as a jeweller and goldsmith (the explanation of his bardic name). He went to Gwynfryn School, Ammanford (see Watkin Hezekiah Williams), for half a year. He walked there from the home of his cousin John Dyer Richards, the eldest son of
WALTERS, IRWYN RANALD (1902 - 1992), musician and administrator of Henry Walford Davies Irwyn Walters had the opportunity to observe famous conductors who took part in the Gregynog music festivals, including Adrian Boult, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Henry Wood. He became a teacher at Bideford then moved to Islington in 1928, where he also served as organist of the Welsh chapel in Willesden Green. He then moved to the King Edward VI School in
WALTERS, THOMAS (1729 - 1794), Independent minister ' while preaching. In 1765, he built a meeting-house almost on the threshold of Philip David's old church at Pen-main; the chapel was generally known by the very Methodistical name, Tynewydd (the New House) - its official name being Bethel - and Williams of Pantycelyn, David Williams of Llyswyrny (1717 - 1792), and other Methodist preachers came there to preach. About 1765, Thomas Walters was ordained
WARDLE, GWYLLYM LLOYD (1762? - 1833), Quaker and Wesleyan preacher and poet enlisted in the Antient British Fencible Cavalry, a regiment formed by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, which was on active service in Ireland from 1797 to 1799; in 1796 he was one of the vice-presidents of the Society of Antient Britons in London. He was refused a commission in the regular army (a pamphleteer hints that he was guilty of some dishonesty when engaged in buying remounts for his regiment), but he
WARING, ELIJAH (c. 1788 - 1857), merchant, author and publisher reform; it was he who wrote several of the leading articles on this subject published in the new Swansea newspaper, The Cambrian. It is not surprising, therefore, that he became fond of the company of Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg). After the death of Iolo in 1826 Waring wrote his reminiscences of him in a series of articles in The Cambrian. In 1850, he published his famous biography, Recollections
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Wales ', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1920; ' The French literary influence in Mediaeval Wales ', The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1921; with V.E. Nash-Williams, 'A pre-reformation inscribed chalice and paten', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 3 (1925); 'Albert Stimmings Welsche Fassung in the Anglonormanische Boeve de Hamtone, an
WATKIN, WILLIAM RHYS (1875 - 1947), Baptist minister and Music Club of the town for many years, and during World War II he was Chairman of Undeb Cymru Fydd in the area. He owned a wide-ranging and valuable library, and was an authority on first editions. On 12 September 1905, in Tabernacl, Maesteg, he married Jane, the daughter of David and Elizabeth (née Jenkins) Williams. She died on 14 December 1936 and he on 16 December 1947, and they were both
WATKYNS, ROWLAND (c.1614 - 1664), cleric and author people of note in South Wales and the English Border, many of them to members of landed families. There is one ' To his Honoured friend Mr. John Williams the most pious and learned Minister and Vicar of Devynnock and Luel.' That he was married is proved by ' An epitaph upon my beloved daughter Susanna Watkyns, who was born upon Ash Wednesday, 1655, and dyed the 5 of August, 1658.'

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