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unusual facts about Glamorganshire



1794 in Wales

Richard Hill is accused by the owners of the Glamorganshire Canal of improperly taking water from the Taff river which for his Plymouth ironworks.

Baron Mansel

It was created on 1 January 1712 for Sir Thomas Mansel, 5th Baronet, previously Member of Parliament for Cardiff and Glamorganshire.

Ciaran Joyce

Ciaran (pronounced: Key-ron) David P. Joyce (born 17 September 1987) in South Glamorgan Glamorganshire Wales - Cardiff is an actor and TV presenter of Irish descent, best known for playing Laurence 'Lol' Plakova in CBBC's The Story of Tracy Beaker.

Edward Higginson

In 1858 he became minister of High Street Chapel, Swansea, Glamorganshire, a position which he resigned because of failing health in 1876.

Edward John Hutchins

Edward John Hutchins (27 December 1809, Briton Ferry, Glamorganshire – 11 February 1876, Hastings) was a Liberal MP, railway director and Freemason.

Glamorganshire Golf Club

Guy Gibson the leader of the legendary Dam Busters raid over Germany in World War II, was not only an honorary member of Glamorganshire Golf Club but when the news came that he had been awarded the Victoria Cross he celebrated that night in the clubhouse.

The Stableford method of golf scoring, a system now utilised and revered, particularly by amateur golfers, the world over, was first devised by a Glamorganshire club member, Dr. Frank Barney Gordon Stableford.

Herbert Jenner-Fust

Jenner-Fust, surname initially Jenner, was second son of Robert Jenner of Doctors' Commons, proctor, and of Chislehurst, Kent, by his second wife, Ann, eldest daughter of Peter Birt of Wenvoe Castle, Glamorganshire.

Herbert Mackworth

He was the son of Sir Humphrey Mackworth of Gnoll, Glamorganshire, MP for Cardiganshire and was educated at Westminster School, Magdalen College, Oxford and the Inner Temple.

James Dallaway

In 1801, in exchange for the rectory of Llanmaes, Glamorganshire, which had been given to him by the Marquess of Bute, he obtained the vicarage of Leatherhead, Surrey.

Jasper Tudor

Joan Tudor, wife of William ap Yevan (son of Yevan Williams and Margaret Kemoys), and reported mother of Morgan ap William (or Williams) (born Llanishen, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1479), later married at Putney Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire, in 1499 to Catherine or Katherine Cromwell, born Putney, London, c.

John Prior Estlin

About 1816 his sight began to fail; in 1817 he resigned his pulpit, receiving a large sum of money from his congregation as a testimonial; and preaching his farewell sermon on 22 June, he retired to a cottage he had built for himself at his favourite summer haunt, Southerndown, Glamorganshire.

Marietta College

Thomas Rees - DD 1862, Welsh Congregational Minister in Breconshire, Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire.

Samuel Pearse

Samuel George Pearse was born on 16 July 1897 at Penarth, Glamorganshire, Wales to George Stapleton Pearse and his wife Sarah Ann.

William Weston Young

On 23 January 1803, Young and his wife moved to new lodgings in Swansea, Glamorganshire, where he had gained employment under fellow Quaker, Lewis Weston Dillwyn, as a "draftsman" at Dillwyn's Cambrian Pottery, where he remained until August 1806.

They were not successful, but one member of the committee, a porcelain enthusiast; Sir Joseph Banks, suggested to his friend and ceramicist Lewis Weston Dillwyn of the Cambrian Pottery of Swansea, Glamorganshire, should make an inspection and report on the matter.


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