Henry Bruce
British home secretary (1869-73) under William Ewart Gladstone and Lord President of the council (1873-74). Created Baron Aberdare in 1873.
Connection: Henry Austin Bruce, first baron aberdare ...
Bledry Morgan
Colonel Morgan should not be confused with the buccaneer, Sir Henry Morgan, Governor of Jamaica.
Colonel Bledry Morgan is thought to have been a relative of Sir Henry Morgan and worked ...
Captain Sir HenryMorgan
This, the greatest of all the "brethren of the coast," was a Welshman, born at Llanrumney (probably at Llanrumney Hall, now a pub) in Monmouthshire in the year 1635. The son of ...
Dafydd Morgan
He was with captain hamlin, the French pirate, in may of 1683, off the coast of west Africa.
Connection: Was known to be a welshman.
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This captain Morgan should ...
Edward Morgan
In 1665, when war had been declared on holland, the governor of jamaica issued commissions to several pirates and buccaneers, morgan was one of them.
Connection: Uncle and father-in-law ...
William Stanley Baker was born on 28 February 1928 at 32 Albany Street, Ferndale, in the Rhondda Fach valley of Glamorganshire the youngest of three children of John Henry Baker, a haulier and engineman, ...
... by his son Richard.
Connection: 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.
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Naunton Wayne was born Henry Wayne Davies on 22 June 1901 in the Pontypridd area of Glamorgan; family and local tradition specifically place his birth in the parish of Llanwynno, a small rural community ...
... of Twelfth Night, Othello and Anna Christie, and later performed with the English Shakespeare Company in Henry IV and Henry V. On television he appeared in a huge range of series over the decades, including ...
... comes through his mother. Avis Townes was a light opera singer born in Barry, Glamorgan, who married English stonemason William Henry Hope in 1891. The couple lived in Barry before later moving to England, ...
... on the Broadway stage from 1925 onward, working alongside major names of the era including Blanche Yurka, Walter Hampden, George M. Cohan, William Gillette, Henry Travers and Dorothy Gish.
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David Williams
Notorious pirate who terrorised the seas off Madagascar.
Connection: Born in Wales.
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Charles Franklyn
Sailing with captain Davis in the west Indies.
Connection: This welsh pirate was a monmouthshire man.
comment by:MalcolmX Jumped ship in the Cape Verde Islands.
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Sir Henry Clifford Darby was born on the 7th of February, 1909, at 3 Cross Street, Resolven, a coal-mining village in the upper Neath valley, Glamorgan, the only child of Evan Darby, a pit mechanic and ...