Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader also a regular visitor to Colwyn Bay Cricket Club. While in Rhyl he took the initiative to organize Eid prayers. On the morning of 9 January 1941, Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Nant House, Prestatyn. The guest of honour was the dethroned monarch Prince Mohammed Hasan Mirza of Persia, heir of the Qajar Dynasty which had ruled Iran from 1789 to 1925. This event in Prestatyn would be the last Eid
ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist American firms to study their business methods. He entered the family business in 1925 and in due course became chairman of Hitchman's Dairies, Ltd., which was selling 20,000 gallons of milk a day and employing over 500 men when it was sold to United Dairies, Ltd., in 1946. He was also a Lloyd's underwriter. On 6 December 1939 he married Margaret, daughter of John Davies, master mariner, Aberaeron and
ANTHONY, GRIFFITH (1846 - 1897), musician Born at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire. The family having moved to Cwmbwrla, near Swansea, the son began when quite young to work in the iron-works there. He studied music, mastered the Tonic Sol-fa system of notation, and instituted classes in the elements of music which were held in various chapels. He wrote anthems (e.g. ' Dyddiau dyn sydd fel glaswelltyn'), hymn-tunes, and tunes for children. He
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer adjudicators, the singer Henry Plunket Greene, to pursue a professional career. His tutor Gwilym R. Jones organised a local appeal fund to support a course of study in London, and Anthony studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1935 to 1939, under the tutelage of Norman Allin. He held the George Mence Smith scholarship, and at the end of his course won the Robert Radford Memorial Prize and the Rutson
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth graduating in 1923 he held a post in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, until 1925. He was head of the Welsh department in the Cardiff Free Library between 1926 and 1932 before returning to Aberystwyth as Librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a post he held between October 1932 and February 1942, when he left to join the fire service in Swansea, and from June 1945 to October
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales Union. He battled with the civic authorities in Swansea for illegally showing films on Sunday evenings after the service without a music licence. He also upset the leaders of the Free Churches on his standpoint on Sunday observance. Atkin developed his ministry among needy people, and his care for the disadvantaged and the 'down and outs' became known through his articles in the press, in particular
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer (1880-1947), “Peerless Jim” Driscoll (1880-1925) and Jimmy Wilde (1892-1969). The family eventually settled at Gosport, Hampshire in 1932, where Walley was eventually to sign amateur forms with Southampton, after his father had moved to Hampshire to take up a civil appointment as a physical education teacher at Price College, Fareham. Walley Barnes' talents as a full back soon attracted the attention
BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Birmingham and Leeds and in concerts given by Herschell and Richter; and played before queen Victoria at Balmoral and at Windsor. He accompanied Madame Albani on a musical tour of Canada and the United States of America. In 1883 he became teacher of the flute in the Royal College of Music, a post which he held until 1910. He was considered the foremost flute player in the country. He died 10 January 1927
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster Aberdare, where she entered the Girls' County School and competed with great success in local eisteddfodau in both music and literary competitions. In 1919 she was the first recipient of a prize offered by the Aberdare Cymrodorion to the candidate from the Aberdare County Schools awarded the highest marks in Welsh in the examinations of the Central Welsh Board; she was also placed second in Welsh through
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Gerald Battrick was born at Bridgend on 27 May 1947, the son of Denzil John Battrick (1924-2016), a local government Senior Public Health Inspector, and his wife Pearl Madeleine, née Egan (1925-2011). Pearl Battrick was an influential figure who served as a committee member of the Welsh Lawn Tennis Association. The family lived at Cornerways, Island Farm Road, Bridgend. Educated at Bridgend
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician weeks for Paris, where he attended the lectures of Prof. Joseph Loth at the Collège de France and acted as Assistant in Welsh to Joseph Vendryes. He worked in Paris until 1925, when he was appointed tutor at the Normal College, Bangor, where he remained for the rest of his life, teaching Welsh, History and Scripture Knowledge at various times. Ambrose Bebb published six books on the history of Wales
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator , Poems from the Welsh (1913), a joint production with his father, C.C. Bell. In 1925 father and son collaborated on another volume, Welsh Poems of the Twentieth Century in English Verse, with an introductory essay of 57 pages giving a summary of the history of Welsh poetry from the earliest times to the 1920s. Bell expanded this essay into a book of 192 pages and published it under the title The

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