Oliver Cromwell, Henry Stanley, Sir Henry Morgan (Captain), which Welsh personalities share your roots?
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Lawyer, MP, firebrand, soldier and ultimately Lord Protector of England 1649-58. Abolished... Read more?
Real name Oliver Williams. Son of Sir Henry Cromwell and grandson of Richard Williams, who first used the name Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell being his uncle and patron.
Great grandson of Morgan Williams of Llanishen, a brewer and innkeeper.
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Read more?Born in Llanrhymney, Glamorgan.
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Super pirate. Said to have invented the familiar 'Jolly Roger' or 'Skull... Read more?
From Casnewy Bach near Haverfordwest.
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In 1170, it is said, Prince Madoc, with thirteen ships and three... Read more?
1134 - ?. One of nine sons of Owain Gwynedd.
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General, Admiral, renowned chevalier of France "the red hand", heir to the... Read more?
1330 - 1348. Grandson of Llewelyn 2nd's brother and sole heir of the princes of Gwynedd.
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Went in search of (and found) Dr Livingston. He carved out the... Read more?
He was the illegitimate son of a Denbighshire housemaid.
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Co-founder of Rolls Royce Cars. Aeronaut-first British plane fatality, an engineer and... Read more?
From Monmouth, Wales, son of Lord Llangattock.
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Raised a Franco/Scot/Welsh army and defeated the infamous English King Richard the... Read more?
Born 28th February 1457 in Pembroke Castle to his thirteen year old mother and son of Edmund Tudor, a Welshman of Welsh royal lineage.
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Hu Gadaran "brought the nation of the Cambrians to the isles of... Read more?
Hu Gadarn was, according to the ancient triads, one of the three pillars of the nation of the isle of Britain.
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Lord Burghley, kg, Lord High Treasurer, JP and architect of Elizabethan England.... Read more?
1520 - 1598. Descended from the noble Welsh family the Seisyllts, who served under Welshman henry 7th against Richard 3rd 1485.
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