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teulu VAUGHAN Hergest, Kington . There is a tradition that she slew, with her own hand, her cousin Siôn Hir ap Phylip Fychan, to avenge the death of her brother, Dafydd Fychan of Llinwent in Llanbister, whom he had killed. Thomas and Ellen had three sons, Watkin Vaughan, Richard Vaughan, who died shortly after his father (see his elegy by Lewis Glyn Cothi), and Roger Vaughan (see Vaughan family of Clyro), and one daughter, Alice
teulu VAUGHAN Llwydiarth, of Llwydiarth, Llangedwyn, and Glan-llyn were again carried by Anne, daughter and heiress of Edward Vaughan, to her husband Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 3rd bart. of Wynnstay, whose mother, Jane Thelwall, heir of Plas-y-ward, was herself fifth in descent from John Owen Vaughan of Llwydiarth (above). In Mont. Coll., xiv, is an illustrated article on the thirty armorial shields originally on the Vaughan
teulu VAUGHAN Pant Glas, elder daughter) who married into the Williams family of Marl; as her brothers and her sister died without heirs the Pant Glas lands were absorbed into the Marl estate, and the remainder of the story will be found under that heading. Another member of the family is deserving of mention, namely RICHARD VAUGHAN (1621 - 1700) - erroneously stated by Griffith to be a son of Henry Vaughan (I), but it is by
VAUGHAN, HERBERT MILLINGCHAMP (1870 - 1948), historian and author Millingchamp; on Millingchamp and the MSS. see his 'Life and Letters of the Venerable Benjamin Millingchamp' (now NLW MSS 13915-13916B) and H. Ethé, N.L.W. Catalogue of Oriental Manuscripts (1916). He was an authority on bookplates, helping to catalogue the Sir Evan Davies Jones collection and cataloguing for the National Library (1938) the Aneurin Williams collection. During his sojourn in Italy he had
VAUGHAN, RICE (bu farw 1670), lawyer and author Cardiganshire, Pembrokeshire, and Carmarthenshire. Having failed to get himself elected Member of Parliament for Merioneth, 1654, he petitioned the Council of State, alleging irregularities on the part of the sheriff (Maurice Lewis); the member elected was John Vaughan, Cefnbodig (see summary account in W. R. Williams, Hist. of the Great Sessions in Wales, based on Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series
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
VICARI, ANDREW (1932 - 2016), painter , figures in a sort of fairground' to a student exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, which Little and fellow art student Archie Williams (1922-1993) had organised. At that time, he was still using his original surname of Vaccari. He was a stocky, dark haired, impulsive man, prone to exaggeration and obfuscation. He attended the Slade School of Art and, whilst in London, the story goes that
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

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