Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader prayers held in the region for decades. Over a year after this prayer meet, in April 1942, Abdul-Hamid lead the inaugural prayer at the newly opened 'Home for Indian Seamen' on Upper Parliament Street in Liverpool. On 28 August 1942, he organized a meeting in Cardiff with other Muslims to pray for the success of British war efforts. Guests included Sufi teacher Sirdar Ali Shah and the Lord Mayor of
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth returned to Caernarfon in 1908, before moving to Aberystwyth in 1909. Apart from a period in Cardiff between 1926 and 1932 and a shorter period in Swansea between 1942 and 1945, Arthur ap Gwynn spent most of his life in Aberystwyth and its neighbourhood. In 1945 he returned to live in Waun-fawr, Aberystwyth and after retiring in 1967 he moved with his wife to the village of Eglwys-fach, Ceredigion, where
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Protestant, and was made chief justice of Ireland in 1564. His career is covered in D.N.B. Supplement, 75. JOHN ARNOLD Sir Nicholas Arnold's second son (wrongly called Thomas in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 21), inherited Llanthony (the Gloucestershire estates passing to the children of a former marriage), but later leased it to the Hopton family (retaining the baronial
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer his kick, and it was his penalty drop-kick which won the match against England in 1893, when Wales gained the triple crown for the first time ever. He led Wales to its second crown in 1900. He was one of the first to be employed as a professional player by Glamorgan Cricket Club (founded in 1888) in 1895 at £2 per week. He died 3 March 1959 at Swansea. His brother, JACK BANCROFT (1879 - 1942), was a
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer July 1966. He married Joan Sutton (born 1923), a county athlete, at a quiet wedding in Portsmouth in 1941. They had one daughter, Sandra, (born 1942), who was born at Gosport, Hampshire. The family subsequently lived in the Palmers Green area of north London at 216, Winchmore Hill Road, before moving in 1971 to 68 Park Drive, also in Winchmore Hill. Walley Barnes died in a London hospital on 4
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the three responsible for the fire. In 1940, he married Ruth Byass who supported him loyally in all his many activities and enterprises. They had four children, Jane born in 1941, Michael in 1942, Richard in 1946 and Robert in 1951. In September 1941 the now Squadron Leader Barrett was posted to Linton, near York to the first Halifax squadron only to be shot down on his first flight over Germany. He
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure -General 1935-40, and to the Secretary of State for War 1942-45. He was defeated by the Labour candidate at the 1945 general election. Beaumont had served with the Territorial Army since his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers Infantry on 26 July 1931. While still a Member of Parliament, Beaumont had passed the staff college examinations and achieved the rank of major. After the end of the
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician kept a personal diary, and he was consequently well placed to comment on current events. Such comments are found in 1940, Lloffion o ddyddiadur (1941) and Dyddlyfr 1941 (1942). Similarly in Calendr coch (1946) he gives an account of his campaign as a Plaid Cymru candidate in the parliamentary election in 1945. These books are interesting because they present the author's immediate reaction to the
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet appointed Assistant Director (Art) under the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council, and in 1951 he became Curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. David Bell collaborated with his father on the translation of some of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poems which appeared in 1942 under the title Dafydd ap Gwilym: fifty poems as vol. 48 of Y Cymmrodor. He was the author of 24 translations. He provided the English
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator : fifty poems, which appeared as volume 48 of Y Cymmrodor in 1942. Of these 26 are by Bell, and 24 by his son David. The metre employed consists of lines of four stressed syllables rhyming in couplets, with variations in the number of unstressed syllables - a much more exacting pattern than that adopted by later translators. The style is 'poetic', often incorporating archaic expressions, which were
BELL, RONALD MCMILLAN (1914 - 1982), Conservative politician He was born at Cardiff on 14 April 1914, the son of John Bell. He was educated at Cardiff High School and Magdalene College, Oxford, where he graduated BA in 1936 and MA in 1942. During his university years he served as President of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1935 and Secretary and Treasurer of the Oxford Union in 1935-36. Bell was called to the bar from Grays Inn in 1938
BERTIL, PRINCESS LILIAN (DUCHESS OF HALLAND), (1915 - 2013) Princess Lilian, wife of Prince Bertil of Sweden, was born Lillian May Davies, in her grandparents' home 3 Garden Street, Swansea on 30 August 1915, a month or two after her parents' marriage. Her father was William John Davies (1893-1956) and her mother was Gladys Mary (Curran) (c.1895-1942), daughter of William Curran, labourer at the fuel works, and his wife, Jane. W. J. Davies served in the

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