Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Council. In many of his major decisions he was associated with other Welsh civil lawyers such as T. Yale (see Yale family), David Lewis, and Henry Johnes. In Wales itself he was M.P. for Carmarthen (1554) and Brecon (1558), J.P. and sheriff (1545) for Brecknock, and a member of the Council of Wales (1586). He acquired extensive estates in Brecknock and other parts of South Wales both by purchase and by
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors annum.' He was also to supply Homfray with the necessary metal made at his blast furnaces at Cyfarthfa, Plymouth, and Hirwaun. After some two years Homfray complained that he was not receiving sufficient metal and tapped Bacon's furnace at Cyfarthfa. A quarrel ensued, and, in October 1784, Homfray assigned his lease to David Tanner of Monmouth, and soon afterwards established his three sons in a new
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic Wallis, vicar of Abergavenny, and sister to Dr. David Lewis, Master of Requests and Judge of Admiralty, who became David's godfather. Both parents conformed without enthusiasm to Elizabeth's Church settlement, and their children were brought up accordingly. At 12, David was sent to Christ's Hospital, mainly for the sake of learning English, then little spoken in Abergavenny; he also acquired there a
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist correspondents. His office of judge of Merioneth, Caernarvonshire, and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions), which he held for over twenty years from 1757, brought him frequently to North Wales. He was subsequently a judge in the Chester circuit; and it was during his Chester period that he was associated with lord Kenyon to hear the application for the adjournment of the trial of William Davies Shipley
BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric February 1784, and his body was brought to S. Athan for burial. Elegies to his memory were written by John Williams, S. Athan, 1728 - 1806, and William Williams, Pantycelyn. At the same time David Jones, Llan-gan, published a booklet giving an account of his life: Llythyr oddiwrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim y Prydydd … (Trevecka, 1784).
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster Huldah Bassett was born on 8 June 1901 in Pen-parc, Cardigan, the daughter of the Rev. David Bassett, a Baptist minister from Ystalyfera, and his wife Mary Hannah (née Charles), from Fforest-fach, Swansea. She had a younger brother, Alun, who was an able mathematician and became head of the examination division of the Welsh Joint Education Committee. In 1914 her father moved to a pastorate in
BASSETT, RICHARD (1777 - 1852), Methodist cleric brought him to the notice of David Jones of Llan-gan. He now began to consort with the Methodists, but, although he attended their societies and associations and was one of the trustees of their chapels in Glamorgan, he succeeded in retaining his Church of England appointment until his death. He was probably the last clergyman in Wales to be associated with the Methodists. His brother ELIAS BASSETT, a
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician a living as an agent, and in about 1881 he was appointed Inspector of Coals to the Crown Agents. This was a time when politically-opposed newspapers expressed their views with robust partisan enthusiasm. The Liberal side was supported by the South Wales Daily News and South Wales Echo of Scottish Liberal and devout Presbyterian David Duncan (1811-1888), and the Conservative group by the Western
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure his parliamentary career, he took a more active part in the public life of Montgomeryshire. He was President of the Montgomeryshire Conservative Association and found himself in the unusual role of defusing a revolt within the Association over the Executive's decision not to field a candidate against Clement Davies at the 1951 general election. He was appointed High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in
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
BERNARD (d. 1148), bishop of S. Davids certain that a 'dedication' of the cathedral in 1131 implies a rebuilding of the fabric. And, before he can be credited with securing the canonization of S. David, it has to be established that the event took place in his time. He was, however, an energetic champion of the rights of his see, playing a prominent part in two major conflicts. The first arose out of the attempt of bishop Urban of Llandaff

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