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WALTER, ROWLAND (Ionoron Glan Dwyryd; 1819 - 1884), quarryman and poet verse and much work by him appeared in Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd and Y Drych. In 1872 was published at Utica, Caniadau Ionoron. He died March 1884 at Fairhaven, Vermont. According to Blackwell he was aged 64.
WALTERS, EVAN JOHN (1893 - 1951), artist Walters later affected a Bohemian image, with flowing hair and goatee beard. His marriage in 1935 to a student friend, Marjorie Davies, lasted but a few months. He was much attached to his parents and nursed them both in their last years. He died in London on 14 March 1951 and was buried at Llangyfelach. A number of his remaining works were left to the National Museum of Wales and to the Glynn Vivian
WARING, ELIJAH (c. 1788 - 1857), merchant, author and publisher and Anecdotes of Edward Williams, the Bard of Glamorgan - pleasant and amusing, but quite certainly one of the most misleading books. In 1835 he moved to Cardiff and from there went to Hotwells, Clifton. He returned to Neath c. 1855 and died at the home of his son on Sunday, 29 March 1857. He wrote much English verse, and his daughter, ANNA LETITIA WARING (1823 - 1910), came to some prominence as a
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure Born 21 March 1878 at Holywell, Flintshire, second son of Thomas Holmes Waterhouse, an industrialist of Bradford and Holywell. He was educated at Oswestry High School under Owen Owen. At his father's death in 1902 the responsibility for the Holywell Textile Mills fell on his shoulders and between 1909 and 1957 he was successively manager, director and chairman of the company. In 1920 he was
WATKINS, JOSHUA (1769 or 1770 - 1841), Baptist minister when the Cylchgrawn expired. On the 28 March 1796 he was ordained minister of Penuel, Carmarthen. He was obviously a zealous missionary, for he not only greatly increased the size of his congregation but started churches at Ferryside, Kidwelly, Porth-y-rhyd, and elsewhere. But his theological views were no more in accord with the higher Calvinism of the west than were those of M. J. Rhys; he was
WATKINS, Sir TASKER (1918 - 2007), barrister and judge lives of his men, and had a decisive influence on the course of the battle. Watkins was decorated with the Victoria Cross by King George VI on 8 March 1945 at Buckingham Palace. He was famously reticent both in public and in private about his gallantry, choosing not to talk about it, but he was reported as saying "The boys were wonderful. They were Welsh" (Western Mail 9 May 1945) and when he was
teulu WAYNE, industrialists lucrative iron-works at Nant-y-glo, which they took on lease 28 March 1811. The two partners soon made a success of this enterprise, which enabled Matthew Wayne, when he retired from the partnership (c. 1820, to make room for Sir Joseph Bailey's brother, viz. Crawshay Bailey), to save a considerable sum of money with which to commence a business of his own. Wayne then seems to have returned to the
WEST, DANIEL GRANVILLE (Baron Granville-West of Pontypool), (1904 - 1984), Labour politician He was born at Newbridge, Monmouthshire on 17 March 1904, the son of John West and Elizabeth Bridges. He was educated at Newbridge Grammar School and the University College of South Wales, Cardiff, where he studied law and took the departmental first prize. West qualified as a solicitor in 1929. He served in the RAF during World War II, becoming a flight-lieutenant in the RAFVR. He served as a
WHELDON, THOMAS JONES (1841 - 1916), Calvinistic Methodist minister Born 10 March 1841 at Cae-esgob, Llanberis, to John and Mary Wheldon. His parents moved early to Llwyncelyn, where his mother exercised spiritual graces and his father a vigorous independence. Educated at the British School (Capel Coch), he became a pupil teacher. He entered Bala C.M. College in 1857, graduated in the University of London, 1864, but rejected an offer of appointment in the Indian
WHITE, EIRENE LLOYD (Baroness White), (1909 - 1999), politician 1951, she introduced a controversial private members' bill, Matrimonial Causes Bill, which allowed a breakdown of marriage followed by seven years' separation to be grounds for divorce. To the government's alarm, the bill received a second reading in the House of Commons on 9 March 1951; in return for an assurance that a Royal Commission on marriage and divorce would be appointed, Eirene White agreed
WHITE, RAWLINS (fl. 1485?-1555), one of the only three Marian martyrs in Wales made by Anthony Kitchin, the bishop of Llandaff, to get him to recant his opinions, but he refused, and was burnt at the stake at Cardiff, 'about March,' 1555, says Foxe. A modern memorial-tablet on Bethany chapel, Cardiff, gives the date as 30 March, but this precise dating is rather suspect - it would seem odd that White and bishop Ferrar, in widely distant corners of Wales, should have died on
WILDE, WILLIAM JAMES (1892 - 1969), boxer, world flyweight champion (1916-23) ventures. In 1938 he wrote his autobiography Fighting was my business, and was for a time the News of the World boxing correspondent. He was ill for the last four years of his life when he lost his wife and he died, 76 yrs of age, in Whitchurch Hospital, Cardiff, 11 March 1969.

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