Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader native Yemen, though very few details of his travels are available. We know that in January 1941, the Bute Street properties were bombed during a German bombing raid, and it was his deputy, Sheikh Hassan Ismail, who was leading the prayers at the time. Miraculously, as covered in both regional and international press, all the worshippers survived. In 1943, a temporary mosque was opened on the site of
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1976. Shortly before he died he endowed the Hugh Owen Library with a fund for the purchase of books on archaeology in memory of his wife and his son, Rhys, who had died in 1943. Arthur ap Gwynn also contributed to the bibliography of Wales. In Llyfrgelloedd yng Nghymru - proceedings, 1933 (pp. 43-7), he published his 'Modern Welsh books from point of view of Reader and Librarian'. In the same year
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist council and vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He married in 1893, Margaret Elizabeth (died May 1943), elder daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, London, and Plas Dinas, Caernarfon, and they had one son (Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones whose son, Lord Snowdon, married Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II), and two daughters. He died 31 January 1943.
ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED (1886 - 1953), agricultural economist initiative was responsible for bringing the agriculture of the lowlands of Wales (and the whole of the United Kingdom for that matter) out of poverty from 1933 onwards. He contributed numerous articles on his subject to many journals, and his book (with Ifor L. Evans, 1897 - 1952) in 1943, The Agriculture of Wales and Monmouth, is a mine of information on agricultural history for the period 1867 to 1939
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer onto the production of Undercover (1943), a wartime film about Yugoslav guerrillas. Six months later, Baker was given a role in Emlyn Williams's The Druid's Rest. First performed at St Martin's Theatre in London in 1944, the play was likewise notable as Richard Burton's stage debut. 'That gave me the real taste for the theatrical profession', Baker later recalled. In the aftermath of The Druid's Rest
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer of major clubs, and he signed for the Arsenal in June 1943, and during the war years he played in every position for the club except that of centre forward. He made his full debut against Preston North End on 9 November 1946 when he was a few weeks short of his 26th birthday. He soon established himself as a regular full back in the league side, and won a championship medal as well as the first of
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the 51st Highland Division at Saint-Valery-en-Caux in June 1940 and who as warden of Skokholm 1947-1954 was to become so closely associated with him after the war. Barrett was part of the support team for the 'Wooden Horse' escape from the East Compound of Stalag Luft III in 1943. Throughout the long years of captivity he studied birds, in particular the chaffinch and tree sparrow, though tragically
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Mark Cox (born 1943), achieving his highest British singles ranking of third which he retained for a period of five years. During that time he competed several times in all four major grand slam singles tournaments in the United States, Wimbledon and the French and Australian Open. A competitive right-handed player, his temperament occasionally let him down, and he was once forced to apologise to the
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors in 1943). The group owned 26 papers, the holding being maintained at much the same size over 22 years, making him the largest newspaper owner in the United Kingdom. From the start Lord Kemsley concentrated his energies on the Sunday Times, and once he was in sole command he became editor-in-chief and the circulation trebled. In 1947-49 he gave robust evidence before the royal commission on the
BERRY, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1869 - 1945), minister (Congl.) and writer , satirical essays and parodies which are marked by their lively criticism and astuteness. His collection of short stories, Llawr Dyrnu, contains memorable sketches of local characters. For his services to the literature of Wales he was awarded the degree of M.A. (honoris causa) by the University of Wales in 1925. He was chairman of the Glamorgan Congregational Union in 1943 and in 1944 he delivered at
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author popular books, Mudiadau Heddwch yn yr Almaen (Peace Movements in Germany, 1943), Bwlch yn y Llen Haearn (A Gap in the Iron Curtain, 1951), and Trem ar Rwsia a Berlin (A Look at Russia and Berlin, 1962), she travelled in space and time to analyse her relationship with Germany and Eastern Europe, introducing these unfamiliar worlds to the Welsh reader. During the 1950s, she also contributed to early Welsh
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician joined the administrative and special duties branch of the Royal Air Force as a sergeant in May 1943, achieving the rank of a Flying Officer later in the same year. He was adopted as Labour candidate for the Leicester South constituency at the 1945 general election and narrowly defeated the Conservative member. After constituency boundary changes in 1948, Bowden's seat became Leicester South-West where

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