Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader Mosque in Woking. In 1931 he met Armida Gioja, and in 1935 it was announced with some fanfare in the papers that they had become engaged and that she had embraced Islam to do so. Armida was the thirty-year-old daughter of Count Eduardo Gioja (1862-1937), a celebrated Italian artist and portraitist. Less than three months after Armida's conversion, her father also embraced Islam, announcing it publicly
AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Colleges were published in 1862 under the pseudonym Phineas, articles which caused considerable agitation concerning the college at Bala and resulted in the so-called 'War of the Two Constitutions' (1877-85) see Michael D. Jones. It was in this monthly, too, that his well-known recollections of his ministry were published. He is given an honourable place among the poets and littérateurs of the 19th
BARHAM family Trecŵn, Caroline Gertrude Foster-Barham who married the Rev. Sanderson Robins (died 1862), rector of Shaftesbury. On succeeding to the estates he took the name of Barham and resided at Trecŵn. He held the rank of captain in the Queen's 60th Rifles, married (1868) Mary Agnes Cook at Montreal, and died 8 December 1926.
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster , where she collaborated with her colleague Rhyda A. Jones, who taught music: their carol, 'Ymdaenai cyfrin lenni'r nos' was published by Oxford University Press and the National Council of Music in 1932 and again in Carolau Hen a Newydd in 1954. It was in Barry also that she completed her research on the life and work of the poet 'Golyddan' (John Robert Pryse, 1840-1862), and was awarded a University
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician agents of the Bute estate and some law court battles. About 1862, Batchelor received notice to quit the West Dock. He brought an action for damages of £27,000, which was referred to arbitration but finally seemed to just fizzle out. Again, he moved on, this time to develop the Mount Stuart Graving Dock, another business venture that flourished for a while. The final blow came in 1873. Batchelor had
BEBB, LLEWELLYN JOHN MONTFORD (1862 - 1915), cleric Born in Cape Town, South Africa, 16 February 1862, the elder son of the Rev. William Bebb. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford; he graduated B.A. with first-class honours in classics and was appointed a fellow and tutor at Brasenose College. He was made vice-principal of that college in 1892. He was ordained deacon in 1886 and priest in 1887 and in 1898 he was appointed
BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, state that it was on Llwyn-gwair estate that marl was first used in north Pembrokeshire in order to improve the land. Bowen urged his tenants to gather seaweed; it is reported that he used some machine wherewith to grind bones to be mixed with marl and seaweed. He died 16 June 1810 and was buried at Nevern. JAMES BEVAN BOWEN (1828 - 1905) was sheriff in 1862 and represented the county in Parliament
BOWEN, IVOR (1862 - 1934), K.C., county court judge
BOWEN, JOHN (1815 - 1859), bishop of Sierra Leone , from his uncle, William Bowen. His career, of quite exceptional interest, is sketched in the D.N.B., on the basis of his sister's Memorials of John Bowen, 1862. After farming in Canada from 1835 to 1842, he set his mind on holy orders, took his degree at Trinity College, Dublin, in 1847 (LL.D., 1857), was ordained in 1846, and was preferred to a living in 1853, but devoted himself and his
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Merthyr Tydfil. Three years later he became one of the Dowlais trustees and was able to exercise considerable influence on the development of the local iron-works. After ten years as a private member of the House of Commons, he was appointed Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department and held the office from November 1862 to April 1864. In that year he became vice-president of the Committee of
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure ). He was a rowing 'blue,' 1862 and 1863, and president of the university boat club, 1864-6. He was reputed to be the best walker in the university. (For details of his career, see D.N.B.) He died in London, 4 March 1883.
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist Samuel Fisher, M.D., of Bath. (She died 1828, leaving two daughters, of whom the younger married Evan Lewis, afterwards dean of Bangor cathedral, 1884-1902.) Dean Cotton died 28 May 1862, and was buried in Bangor cathedral churchyard. Cotton entirely identified himself with every aspect of Church work in the diocese of Bangor; he was secretary of the Christian Knowledge Society, chairman of the Bangor

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