Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Libraries chaired by the College Principal, Dr. Thomas Parry. The Librarian's last words to the Governors in September 1967 were: 'Given propitious circumstances, including universal acceptance of the urgency of the case, it is hoped that the middle years of the quinquennium may yet see the foundation of a new library laid.' Arthur ap Gwynn lived to see the opening of the Hugh Owen Library 1 September
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist Ralph Lodge, Mrs. Gilbert, and Mrs. Rawlins, a patent enabling her to search for metals on certain Crown lands lying between Dolgelley and Llanuwchllyn, she left England for the purpose of implementing the patent. She was doomed to be disappointed, had little help from her partners, and, being obliged to relinquish her prospecting, lived at Hengwrt from 1771 to 1778 as secretary to Hugh Vaughan, great
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist John Wynne and Sir Hugh Myddelton; in another he asks Lloyd to return to him the 'MS. memories of Owen Glendower.' There are references to Barrington in Morris Letters - see the indexes by Hugh Owen - 'a great antiquary and lover of British antiquities' said Lewis Morris of him in one letter (ii, 344); it is obvious also that Barrington was anxious to see the publication of the result of some of the
BECK, THOMAS (d. 1293), bishop of S. Davids many of the magnates of the realm. Beck was then consecrated by archbishop Peckham, the other three Welsh bishops being in attendance. There followed the translation of the body of S. Hugh of Avalon to a new shrine, marked by festivities, the cost of which was borne by the new-made prelate. Beck now gave up civil duties (except for some service in 1280-1 as royal commissioner in Wales), and
BEVAN, ANEURIN (1897 - 1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State of the same year because of a disagreement with Hugh Giatskell over the intention to start levying charges in the health service. He assembled around him a number of M.P.'s who stood to the left in the political spectrum and who became known as ' Bevanites '. He remained popular amongst the electorate and the membership of the Constituency Labour Parties in the country, and he was still a member of
BLAKE, LOIS (1890 - 1974), historian and promoter of Welsh folk dancing historians. She was a very determined woman, and set to promptly to learn everything about the lost tradition of folk dancing in Wales and thereby discovered treasures; amongst them the fair dances of Nantgarw, the Llangadfan dances, the Llanover dances and a great number of others lurking in English collections such as those by Hugh Mellor, John and Henry Playford and John Walsh. In 1948 Gwennant
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, The Bodvel s, who trace their descent from Collwyn ap Tangno, first come into public notice with JOHN WYN ap HUGH of Bodvel (died 1576), who bore the royal standard for Warwick (later Northumberland) against the Norfolk rebels (1549), and was rewarded with the grant of Bardsey Island, which he was alleged in 1569 to be using as the headquarters of a highly-organized nest of pirates. His son HUGH
BODVEL, HUGH (d. 1611), M.P. - see BODFEL
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, An old Caernarvonshire family, descended from Trahaearn Goch, lord of Cymydmaen. The surname was adopted by HUGH GWYN, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1605 (son of John Wyn, sheriff 1584). Of his twelve children, the eldest, JOHN BODWRDA (died 1648?), was sheriff in 1629, and may have been the John Bodwrda 'secured' by the then sheriff (Sir T. Cheadle) for supposed Roundhead sympathies on the
BOLD, HUGH (1731 - 1809), lawyer The Bold's appear to have been blacksmiths who lived and worked in a village outside Brecon, and the father of Hugh Bold was ' trumpeter to the Corporation of Brecon.' Hugh Bold became a lawyer's clerk at the Brecon office of John Philipps (of Tre-gaer near Llanfrynach - see Theophilus Jones, IV, 37), married his employer's daughter, and eventually succeeded him in the business. In this way he
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician Hugh Gaitskell emerged as the clear winner, obtaining more votes than Aneurin Bevan and Herbert Morrison combined. Bowden was close to Gaitskell during the seven years that the latter led the Labour Party and he described the news of Gaitskell's death as the worst moment of his political life. For the second time, Bowden had to arrange the election of a new leader for the Labour Party and he
BOWND, WILLIAM, Arminian Baptist He lived at Garth Fawr in the parish of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, but worshipped with the Arminian Baptists of Radnorshire. There is no record of his having received a stipend for his ministry after 1658. He debated publicly with Alexander Parker and John Moon, the Quakers, at Scurwy, a farm near Rhayader (see the article on HUGH EVANS (? - 1656). After his early death his widow married William

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