Venables, Richard (1774-1858)
Son of Lazarus Venables. Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. After ordination he served in parishes in Yorkshire before becoming vicar of Clyro in 1810. He married Sophia Lister of Lincolnshire. He became Deputy Lieutenant of Radnorshire in 1817. In 1829 he built Llysdinam Hall on the site of a farmhouse called Penybanc and made it the centre of an estate he had been gradually building up. He served as Archdeacon of Carmarthen from 1832 to 1838, and for twenty-five years as chairman of Radnorshire quarter sessions. He gave his parish of Clyro with Bettws Clyro to his son in 1847 and moved to his estate at Llysdinam from where he acted as vicar of Nantmel with Llanyre until his death.
[WBO; Powys County Archives ref. R/D/VE]
[WBO; Powys County Archives ref. R/D/VE]
Venables, Richard Lister (1809-1894)
Son of Richard Venables (above). He attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge and was ordained in 1830. While at Cambridge he was a friend of Charles Darwin. He was appointed curate of Nantmel in 1833. He married Mary Dalrymple whose father was a Russian gentleman in 1834. He travelled to Russia in 1837 to visit his wife’s family and published Domestic Scenes in Russia on his return which enjoyed some success, running to two editions. He was Rector of Whitney-on-Wye from 1834 before succeeding his father as vicar of Clyro in 1847. From 1865 to 1872 he had as his curate in the parish the famous diarist Rev. Francis Kilvert. He oversaw the building of a new church at Clyro and indulged in foreign travel and visits to the capital, his curate’s covering for him in the parish. His wife Mary died in 1865 and in 1867 he remarried, his second wife being Agnes Pearson. He retired to Llysdinam in 1873, becoming involved in estate business and the building of a church at Newbridge-on-Wye, designed by Stephen William Williams who had acted as land agent for the estate. Like his father before him he served as Chairman of the Radnorshire magistrates.
[RT 64; WBO; Powys County Archives ref. R/D/VE]
[RT 64; WBO; Powys County Archives ref. R/D/VE]
Venables-Llewelyn, Sir Charles Leyshon Dilwyn (b.1870)
Llysdinam Hall
Born on 29 June 1870, the second and only surviving son of Sir John Talbot Dillwyn-Llewelyn of Penllergaer, Swansea. Became a leading figure in public life; baronet, former M.P., High Sheriff in 1924, and Lord Lieutenant from June 1929 to August 1949 and chairman of Radnorshire County Council from October 1940 to March 1946. Took an active interest in agriculture, for which he became distinguished; President of the Radnorshire Agricultural Society in 1929 and President of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society in 1932. Also rose to presidential position in a number of other local organisations, including sports. He also served in the Militia where he took commanding rank and in the Masons he had the record of 25 years Provincial Grand Master of the Eastern Division of S Wales.
He came to Llysdinam in 1893, when he married Katharine Minna, daughter of Rev Richard Lister Venables (above), and thereupon assumed, by royal license, the additional surname of Venables.
[RT 64;Newspaper cutting at County Archives Office dated 24.6.1951]
He came to Llysdinam in 1893, when he married Katharine Minna, daughter of Rev Richard Lister Venables (above), and thereupon assumed, by royal license, the additional surname of Venables.
[RT 64;Newspaper cutting at County Archives Office dated 24.6.1951]
Venables-Llewellyn, Brigadier Sir Charles Michael Dilwyn (1900-1976)
Born on 23 February 1900. After being educated at Eton, embarked on a military career and was awarded the MVO in 1937. Fought in WWII as an officer in command of battalions and served as a brigadier 1943-46. Following retirement from the Army in 1946 he became Deputy Lieutenant of Radnorshire in October. Appointed Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire in succession to his father, Col Sir Charles Leyshon Dilwyn Venables-Llewelyn. Like his father, he interested himself in agricultural matters and became president of the Radnorshire Agricultural Society.
In December 1934 he married Lady Delia Hicks-Beach, sister of the second Earl St Aldwyn, noted for her nursing and hospital work. By 1949 there was one daughter born January 1936 and one son, born August 1938.
[ThePeerage.com; Un-named newspaper cutting at CAO, dated 27/8/1949]
In December 1934 he married Lady Delia Hicks-Beach, sister of the second Earl St Aldwyn, noted for her nursing and hospital work. By 1949 there was one daughter born January 1936 and one son, born August 1938.
[ThePeerage.com; Un-named newspaper cutting at CAO, dated 27/8/1949]
Visdelou family
The Visdelou family held manors in Oxfordshire, Suffolk and Berkshire. Humphrey Visdelou was granted a fee in the later parish of Talgarth by Bernard de Neufmarché after the latter's conquest of Brycheiniog in 1093. This fee later became known as Trewalkin , and took its name from Humphrey's son Walkelin Visdelou. During the civil war between Stephen and Matilda Walkelin seems to have sided with the king, but his overlord, the lord of Brecon (probably Earl Roger of Hereford) supported the Empress. Roger apparently confiscated Trewalkin and gave it to Brecon Priory. Walkelin may have been influenced by Stephen's strength around Oxford where his most valuable manors lay.
Walkelin Visdelou died sometime after 1148, leaving three sons to inherit his English estates, Humphrey (who had his Berkshire estates confiscated by Henry II for killing a knight), Walkelin and William. [G.R.]
[R. Coplestone-Crowe - Trewalkin and Its Anglo-Norman Lords, B.XXVI: 1994]
Walkelin Visdelou died sometime after 1148, leaving three sons to inherit his English estates, Humphrey (who had his Berkshire estates confiscated by Henry II for killing a knight), Walkelin and William. [G.R.]
[R. Coplestone-Crowe - Trewalkin and Its Anglo-Norman Lords, B.XXVI: 1994]