Merthyr ironmaster and historian. Wrote History of Merthyr Tydfil (1867), a source for the early history of the iron industry there. Also wrote History of the Coal Trade of Wales and History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and other Trades of Wales.

(1738–1816). Radical political philosopher and Deist from Eglwysilan, Glamorgan; a native of the Caerphilly area of mid-Glamorgan.

See Iolo Morgannwg.

Welsh actor and playwright.

Died 1914. Barrister and writer. Born Aberdare. Coalminer’s son. Schoolmaster, stipendiary magistrate.

(1717–1791), born in Carmarthenshire: an important hymn-writer and leading figure in the Methodist movement in Wales.

Son of tenant farmer from Llansadwrn. Liberal MP, lawyer, historian, supporter of Cymru Fydd.

(1795–1874). From Bedwellty, Monmouthshire, Williams was one of the leaders of the Newport Rising, 1839, in which he led the march from Nantyglo to Newport. With Frost, John, he was as a result convicted of treason but had his death-sentence commuted to transportation for life to Tasmania. With Frost, he was pardoned in 1856, but remained for the rest of his life in Tasmania.

A movement set up to campaign for women’s rights.

Treatry stating that the Princes of Gwynedd were henceforth to hold their territories as feudal vassals of the English Crown.