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VAUGHAN, ROWLAND (c.1590 - 1667) Caer-gai,, poet, translator, and Royalist The King's Book, together with his dedication addressed to lord Harlech's ancestor, colonel Sir John Owen; for this, see N.L.W. Jnl., i, 141-4. Rowland Vaughan died 18 September 1667 and the Caer-gai estate passed to his eldest son, John, whose great-granddaughter, Mary Elizabeth (born 1709), wife of the Rev. Henry Mainwaring, rector of Etwall, sold it, together with Tref Prysg, to Sir Watkin
VAUGHAN, Sir THOMAS (bu farw 1483), soldier, court official, ambassador, chamberlain to the prince of Wales He was the son of Robert Vaughan of Monmouth and Margaret his wife. The assertion in History of Parliament (1439-1509) that he was the heir of Sir Roger Vaughan of Tretower must be rejected. He received denizenship (being a Welshman) by order of the Privy Council and at the instance of lord Somerset and Adam Moleyns, 30 March 1442/3. He was granted the offices of steward, receiver, and master of
teulu VINCENT also published (1903) the Memoirs of Sir Llewellyn Turner; but outside Wales he is better known as an editor of periodicals and a writer on topography. He died 18 July 1909. [ The second, (Sir) HUGH CORBET VINCENT, born 27 April 1862, knighted in 1924, died 22 February 1931, a Bangor solicitor, contested the Caernarvon division in 1910.] The youngest, (Sir) WILLIAM HENRY HOARE VINCENT (1866 - 1941
WADE, GEORGE WOOSUNG (1858 - 1941), cleric, professor, and author Born 16 August 1858 in China, son of Joseph Henry Wade of Shanghai, and educated at Monmouth School and Oriel College, Oxford (scholar). He took a first class in Classical Honours Moderations (1879) and a second class in Literae Humaniores (1882). He was made deacon in 1885 and ordained priest in 1886. After serving as curate of Basing, Hampshire, from 1885 to 1888, he was appointed to the chair
WALKER-HENEAGE-VIVIAN, ALGERNON (1871 - 1952), admiral T. Stanley, Cardiff. He assumed the name of Walker-Heneage-Vivian by Royal Licence in 1921. He was educated at Evelyn's and Stubbington, Hants. In 1886 he began a career in the Royal Navy, joining the battleship HMS Triumph as a midshipman under the command of Sir Algernon Heneage, a relative of his. He began to specialise in anti-submarine warfare when serving in HMS Royal Arthur in the Pacific
WALTER, LUCY (1630? - 1658), mistress of king Charles II when he was given charge of the children, of whom there were three, Richard, Lucy, and Justus. Roch castle was garrisoned for the king by Richard Vaughan, 2nd earl of Carbery, in 1643. It was taken by Rowland Laugharne after his defeat of the Royalists at Pill (in Milford Haven) in February 1644, but again seized for the king in the following June by Sir Charles Gerard. William Walter alleged that
WALTERS, THOMAS GLYN (WALTER GLYNNE; 1890 - 1970), tenor Born 4 January 1890 son of David and Elizabeth (née Jones) Walters, Cefngorwydd, Gowerton, Glamorganshire, and was educated at Gowerton Grammar School. He was a bank clerk until he decided to take up a musical career, and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London in 1910. He served in the Welsh Guards during World War I. In 1921, on the recommendation of Sir Landon Ronald, HMV's
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 the venture. In 1814 he settled at Neath and, in 1817, he married Deborah, daughter of Peter Price, and sister of Joseph Tregelles Price. Waring was a Quaker and used to preach in Nonconformist chapels in the neighbourhood. Later, he joined the Wesleyan body. He became well known as an advocate of liberty in the state and in the church, and he took a prominent part in the movement for Parliamentary
WARRINGTON, WILLIAM (1735 - 1824), historian and dramatist author of two forgotten dramas, The Cambrian Hero, or Llewelyn the Great (?1803) and Alphonso King of Castile, A Spanish Tragedy (1813). A poem by him entitled 'On Old Windsor Church-yard' is quoted in John Evans, An Excursion to Windsor, in July 1810 (1817), pp. 345-6. His major work is The History of Wales, published in London by Joseph Johnson in 1786, with a dedication to William, Duke of
WATERHOUSE, THOMAS (1878 - 1961), industrialist and public figure in Clwyd county council office at Mold, and another at the home of his son, Sir Ronald Waterhouse, High Court Judge.
WATKIN, MORGAN (1878 - 1970), scholar, university professor Howard Gardens School, Cardiff. He followed classes at the University College, Cardiff, and in 1910 graduated with hons. in French and Welsh. A university fellowship and the Gilchrist Scholarship enabled him to go to France as ' reader in English ' in the Lycée Louis-Le-Grand and reader in English language and literature in the University of Paris. Joseph Vendryes, at the time professor of comparative

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