Category: Biographies
The object of this little work, is, to show to the English reader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented and distinguished individuals; and the publication might be greatly extended, were it deemed prudent to add the names of those learned men who are still among...
_Matthew Henry_ was the son of Philip Henry, an eminent Nonconformist, and he was born at Broad Oak, in Flintshire, in the year 1663. He was early instructed by his father in th...
4. Part 4_Morgan Owen_, D.D., was a native of South Wales, and was educated at Oxford, where he graduated. Having taken orders, he obtained various preferment, and in 1640 he was install...
1. Part 1The object of this little work, is, to show to the English reader, that Wales has produced a number of highly talented and distinguished individuals; and the publication might b...
3. Part 3_Humffrey Lloyd_, D.D., was born in 1610, at Trawsvynydd, Merionethshire. He received an academical education; and having taken orders, he became in time, a prebendary of York,...
5. Part 5_Sir John Vaughan_, an eminent and learned chief justice of Common Pleas, was born in Caerdiganshire, in 1608. He was educated at Worcester School, whence he removed to Christ C...
6. Part 6_Sir John Glynne_, an able political lawyer in the time of Charles the First, and during the Interregnum, was born in the year 1590. He received his academic education at Hart H...
7. Part 7_William Parry_, some time president and theological tutor at Wymondley Academy, Herts, was born in the year 1754, at Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire. When he was about seven year...