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MYTTON, THOMAS (1608 - 1656) Halston,, parliamentary commander Salop in the first Protectorate parliament (1654) and was county commissioner there for the decimation tax in December 1655. He died the following November His letters suggest a man of humane and generous temper, and archbishop John Williams says he was 'well-beloved' in North Wales (Cal. Wynn Papers, 1834); but the treatment of Irish prisoners taken at Conway is a blot on his reputation. Another
teulu NANNEY Nannau, death in 1783, leaving his brother ROBERT HOWELL VAUGHAN (1723 - 1792), created a baronet in 1791, to carry on the long litigation till 1788, when the Chancery masters delivered a final and very favourable verdict. It is true that R. H. Vaughan was made a baronet in 1791, but much more important for the fortunes of the family was his marriage in 1765 with Ann Williams, heiress of the Ystumcolwyn lands
NASH-WILLIAMS, VICTOR ERLE (1897 - 1955), archaeologist Born 21 August 1897 at Fleur-de-Lys, Monmouthshire, son of Albert Henry and Maude Rosetta (née Nash) Williams. The father, a monumental mason, died when the children were quite young, and his widow took by deed-poll the surname Nash-Williams. Victor was educated at Lewis' School, Pengam, and University College, Cardiff, graduating B.A. with first-class hons. in Latin, 1922; M.A., 1923; awarded
NELSON, ROBERT (1656 - 1715), non-juror, supporter of the S.P.C.K., and philanthropist Thomas Williams (1658 - 1726), rector of Denbigh, under the title Cydymaith i Ddyddiau Gwylion ac Ymprydiau Eglwys Loegr. Nelson's career is fully described by Leslie Stephen in the D.N.B. Though his wife was a Roman Catholic, he was a zealous Protestant, yet sufficiently High-Church to refuse the oath of loyalty to the Revolution Settlement. He was prominent in the religious society movement, in the
NEPEAN, MARY EDITH (1876 - 1960), novelist Born at LlandudnoLlandudno, Caernarfonshire in 1876, daughter of John Bellis, a Caernarfonshire county councillor, and Mary, his wife. She was educated at home, studying art with Robert Fowler, and later showed her work at a number of exhibitions. She married in 1899 Molyneux Edward Nepean, of a family of high-ranking civil servants, and resided in England, moving in literary circles in London
NICHOLAS, JAMES (1877 - 1963), Baptist minister Born 12 January 1877 at y Bryn, Cwmfelinmynach, Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, the son of Benjamin Nicholas (died 10 August 1931 aged 88) and Mary Nicholas (died 23 October 1900 aged 56). His father was a member of the Independent church at Llanboidy and his mother at the Baptist church at Ramoth, Cwmfelinmynach. It is recorded on the gravestone of his parents in Ramoth graveyard that they both came
NICHOLAS, THOMAS EVAN (Niclas y Glais; 1879 - 1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party enrolled at Gwynfryn School, Amanford, under Watkin Hezekiah Williams, 'Watcyn Wyn' (1844-1905) and John Gwili Jenkins (1872-1936), an advocate of the broad and liberal theological views associated with the New Theology of R.J. Campbell. T.E. Nicholas acknowledged his immense debt to Gwili Jenkins for opening for him the world of Christian Socialism, though he had read for himself accounts of the work of
NICOLAS, DAFYDD (1705? - 1774), poet itinerant schoolmaster at that time. Towards the middle of the century (or, perhaps, before that) he came to the notice of the Williams family of Aberpergwm, and that mansion was his home thenceforward until he died. It was maintained during the last century that he was kept there as ' family bard ' - the last in Wales, so it was said; but William Davies of Cringell (1756 - 1823) said in 1795-6 that he
NOAKES, GEORGE (1924 - 2008), Archbishop of Wales George Noakes was born on September 13 1924 in Penygaer, Bwlchyllan, Cardiganshire, one of the three children of a Welsh-speaking mother, Elizabeth Mary née Lewis and father, David John Noakes, colliery worker and later farmer, from English-speaking south Pembrokeshire. This factor gave him an unforced and natural bilingualism which made him a fluent and attractive preacher in both languages. As
NOWELL, THOMAS (1730? - 1801), principal of S. Mary Hall, Oxford, and Regius professor of history . Blackmore gave the title Cradock Nowell to one of his novels. Thomas Nowell's career is described in the D.N.B. He went up to Oriel in 1746, aged 16 according to Foster, Alumni Oxonienses; he graduated in 1749 (D.D. 1764), was elected Fellow of Oriel in 1753 and held various offices there, became principal of S. Mary Hall in 1764, and professor of modern history in 1771; he was public orator, 1760-76. He
OLIVER, EDWARD (1720 - 1777), early Methodist and Moravian, a carpenter Born (according to a Moravian record) in Montgomeryshire, on Good Friday (15 April or 29 March) 1720. After working at Wrexham (Gomer M. Roberts, Peter Williams, 33), he removed to Llanbrynmair; he was an inconspicuous 'public exhorter' among the Methodists. In the disruption of 1750 he sided with Howel Harris; he was on mission for Harris in North Wales and was present at several of the
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