Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen , in February 1700-1, aged 25, and was buried in the Abbey. By a codicil to his will, a few days before his death, he revoked the settlement of his Montgomery estate upon his cousin Catherine, daughter of Owen Anwyl and wife of Sir Griffith Williams, bart., of Marl (see ' Williams of Marl') in favour of his cousins the Owens of Porkington (now Brogyntyn), and devised an annuity of £100 in perpetuity
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors in South Wales, with rich beds of iron-ore, all in close proximity to limestone and with an abundant supply of water for power. The land was obtained upon very cheap terms, viz. £100 p.a., with no royalties to pay, for ninety-nine years. Arrangements were made with neighbouring farmers to secure their surface leases in order to erect the necessary buildings and furnaces, houses for the workmen
BARTRUM, PETER CLEMENT (1907 - 2008), scholar of Welsh genealogy nearly 1000 pages of pedigrees, and the same number of pages of indexes. The interest in the subject was greatly under-estimated, and only 100 copies were printed. It was necessary to publish a microfiche edition shortly after. One of the important features of the indexes is that references are given to the earliest manuscript sources found for each individual appearing in the pedigrees. In the
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors loan of £100 from his elder brother, he started an entirely new periodical, Advertising World. He then asked his younger brother, JAMES GOMER BERRY, to come to assist him with the second issue, thus starting a partnership which lasted over 35 years. Four years later the periodical was sold to enable them to set up a small publishing company, Ewart, Seymour and Co., Ltd.; they also acquired their
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer -Watt and recruited as one of a team of five to Orfordness to set up an experimental ground radar, following a successful demonstration in February 1935 of the reflection of radio waves by an aircraft. By early 1936 aircraft were being detected at a range of 100 miles, causing work to be started on a chain of radar stations, and the local enlarged team moved to Bawdsey Manor. Bowen tackled the
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal swiftly that he preferred not to know the questions beforehand. He contributed almost 100 broadcasts during his career, a severe strain on his physical resources. He possessed a brilliant mind and a quick tongue. He was stronger in analysing and criticising than in constructing. As a theologian he tended towards rather conservative views and the thinkers who influenced him most were Augustine, Luther
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician plans were scuppered by another pregnancy. This time it could not be kept secret. Angus was duly arrested and was fined $100, but Martha paid more dearly. Gwendolyn was born in April 1899 and, though only in her early forties, Martha retired from public life. She continued in private practice and made a study of nervous diseases, becoming an authority on narcotic addiction, but more and more of her
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist for their 100 greatest heroes, and Cayo was number 33 on the list.
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer the Second World War. He played for England in the Fifth Test Match against South Africa in 1935, and declined further invitations: he would probably have obtained further honours if he had agreed to be available for overseas tours. He captured more than 100 wickets in a season on three occasions, and his best match performance was 17 wickets for 212 runs (9 for 66 and 8 for 146) against
DAVID, PHILIP (1709 - 1787) Penmain, Independent minister 1787. The church kept a level membership of about 100 throughout his pastorate. He was a man of conservative and crabbed temperament, and his manuscript diaries are highly interesting, reflecting as they do the prejudice of 'dry Dissent' against the Methodistical tendencies which were winning the day among Welsh Independents in Philip David's later years. Philip Charles of Cefn-coed-cymer was a
DAVIES, DAVID EMRYS (1904 - 1975), cricketer and cricket umpire new county record of 274 in their opening stand against Leicestershire in 1937. He set yet another record in 1948 when he and Willie Jones added 313 runs for the third wicket at Brentwood against Essex. In 1935 Emrys Davies became the first Glamorgan player to achieve the double of scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season: the same feat was achieved in 1937 when he scored 1,954
DAVIES, EVAN (1694? - 1770), Independent minister and tutor Methodism in its early days, and indeed that in 1737 he invited Howel Harris to Pembrokeshire. Certainly a letter to Howel Harris (Trevecka letter 100, 20 August 1737) by Rees Davies (1694? - 1767), a kinsman of Evan Davies's, shows that Evan Davies was then corresponding with Griffith Jones of Llanddowror. But however that may have been, the wind had turned by 1741, as is shown by a letter of Evan

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