Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer He drew his origin from the town of Usk, on the river of that name. He owed his start in life to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd earl of March, who held the lordship of Usk as part of the inheritance of his wife, Philippa, and who in 1369 gave Adam the means to study civil and canon law at Oxford. In due course, he took the degree of doctor of laws and settled as a teacher of law in the university, where
ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine the movement in Wales, and his biographer, E. Keri Evans, maintains that 'the theologian of the future will give him a prominent and, it may well be, a pre-eminent, place in the development of Welsh theology which occurred at the end of the last century.' The two outstanding features of his early ministry were his efforts to promote temperance and his invaluable services as a catechist in the Sunday
ANDREWS, JOSHUA (c.1708 - 1793), Baptist minister Nothing is known of his beginnings, but in 1732 or 1733 he became a member of Pen-y-garn congregation, under Miles Harry. In 1736, he went to Bristol Academy; he was one of six Welshmen there, another being Caleb Evans. He returned to serve as a lay preacher at Pen-y-garn; and about 1740 was ordained to assist Harry, with special charge of the cause at Usk; but he was not a man of popular gifts
ANIAN (d. 1266), bishop of St Asaph royal mandate been put into possession of the lands of the see. Within two months he had been consecrated by Walter of Worcester, Richard of Bangor, and Richard of Meath. According to the chronicle of Wigmore (Rylands Library MS. 1090), this took place at Leominster. On 10 July 1250, Anian granted an indulgence to penitents visiting the altar of S. Mary and S. Edmund, which he had consecrated in the
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom
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
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist work of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) on early Welsh literature, and it was (bishop) Percy and Daines Barrington who brought Ieuan to the notice of Thomas Gray and of Samuel Johnson (Cymm., 1951, 69). He died 14 March 1800.
BAUGH, ROBERT (1748? - 1832), engraver, map-maker, and musician Described as 'of Llandysilio,' he was for many years parish clerk of Llanymynech. His name is associated with the well-known map of North Wales, 1795, the work of John Evans, Llwyn-y-groes, Llanymynech, but engraved by Baugh. Baugh made a map of Shropshire for which he was awarded, in 1809, a silver medal and fifteen guineas by the Royal Society of Arts, London. He died 27 December 1832, aged 84.
BEDLOE, WILLIAM (1650 - 1680), adventurer and Popish Plot informer of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. He gave evidence against over a dozen priests, and even accused the queen, Catherine of Braganza, of plotting to murder the king. He died at Bristol, 20 August 1680. A contemporary considered him much superior to Oates in imagination and fluency of speech, and hardly inferior to him as a liar and a perjurer.
BEDO HAFESP (fl. 1568-1585), poet of Montgomeryshire He graduated as a 'Disgybl Pencerddaidd' at the second Caerwys eisteddfod in 1568. It appears from the satirical exchange of compositions which passed between him and Ifan Tew (Ieuan Tew II) that he was at one time a sergeant at Newtown in Cedewen (Cardiff MS. 65, f. 112). Fourteen of his poems are extant, mainly addressed to members of important families in the county. Edmund Prys judged that
BELCHER, JOHN (fl. 1721-1763), Methodist exhorter Son of Edmund Belcher of Eglwys Ilan, Glamorganshire. Father and son were smiths by trade, but the latter began to preach with the Methodists. In the Watford Association of 1743 he was appointed to visit the unmarried brethren and a year later was appointed Howel Harris's assistant in some of the southern counties. He had grave doubts as to the propriety of the continued connection between the
BENNETT, NICHOLAS (1823 - 1899), musician and historian arrangement being in the hands of D. Emlyn Evans; this work contains portraits and biographies of harpists and singers to the harp, together with explanatory notes on the art of singing to the accompaniment of the harp. Further, he left in manuscript a treatise on the heraldry of the princes of Wales together with illustrations. Some letters received by him are preserved in NLW MS 584B; see also NLW MS 588C

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