Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader Cardiff Alderman James Hellyer and Lady Mayoress Mrs Hellyer. Abdul-Hamid organized the event under the banner of the 'Muslim Society of Wales', of which he was founder and president. Abdul-Hamid is notable in the historical record as one of the earliest examples of Muslims identifying with Wales. We can only speculate as to why. As a young man he served in the Prince of Wales's Own Regiment, and as his
ANEIRIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), poet for reciting it, and adding: 'May the song of the son of Dwywei win.' Then he goes on: 'Since Aneirin was killed and the earth laid upon him there is no more singing of the "Gododdin".' If we may conjecture that 'the song of the son of Dwywei' is a correct description of the 'Gododdin,' this is an early testimony to Aneirin's ancestry. He was the son of Dwywei. There was, indeed, a lady of that name
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer , captain-general of queen Mary's expeditionary force to France, took Aubrey with him as Judge Advocate (1557), as a member of archbishop Parker's commission which declared the illegality of Lady Catherine Grey's marriage with Hertford (1552) - a case involving the succession to the throne - and in the petitions and legal questions referred to him as Master of Requests (1590-5) by Burghley and the Privy
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors 28 January 1806, bought the Mathews estate at Aberaman, and retired there. In February 1814 he sold his entire mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000. He died at Aberaman, 11 August 1827, and was buried at Speen, Berks. Anthony Bacon II was the father of ANTHONY BACON III, usually called General Bacon, (1796 - 1864). He married Lady Charlotte Mary, second daughter of Edward
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic learned Italian, and made the acquaintance of his fellow-countryman Dr. Griffith, confessor to a nunnery at Milan. Obtaining leave to visit his home in 1607, he made over his Herefordshire property (Pembridge) to his nephew Henry Prichard (6 September), and made several converts among his relatives and neighbours, including his sister, wife of William Parry of Llanover (himself a Catholic), who remained
BARHAM family Trecŵn, Trecŵn, he was M.P. for Stockbridge for about fifty years. On his death in 1832 he was succeeded by his eldest son JOHN FOSTER -BARHAM, M.P. for Stockbridge and afterwards for Kendal, who, in 1834, married lady Catherine Grimstone, daughter of the earl of Verulam, but died without issue in 1838. He was succeeded by his brother (the third son), the Rev. CHARLES HENRY FOSTER -BARHAM of Trecŵn (1808
BEADLES, ELISHA (1670 - 1734), Quaker and writer lleshad i bawb. Beadles also wrote a preface to Theodor Eccleston's replies to Thomas Andrews, vicar of Llanover, who had written about Quakers to a Pontypool parishioner. He sent an account of the beginnings of Quakerism in South Wales to the Meeting for Sufferings in London, dated 21 August 1720. He died in 1734.
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure Born at 33 Belgrave Square, London, on 12 February 1901, the fifth child and second son of Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, from 1907 2nd Baron Allendale and from 1911 1st Viscount Allendale, and Lady Alexandrina Louisa Maud Vane-Tempest, daughter of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry. His maternal grandmother, the 5th Marchioness of Londonderry, was the daughter of Sir John Edwards of
BECK, THOMAS (d. 1293), bishop of S. Davids . The altar tomb in the north wall of the lady chapel is believed to be his. His career gives the impression of a simple devotion to duty; he was without the ambition and the aggressive temper of his more famous brother.
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist circulating schools. This she did very successfully until her death in 1779; indeed, the year 1773 with its 242 schools and 13,205 pupils was the most flourishing in the history of the movement. She bequeathed £10,000 for the continuation of the schools, but her will was disputed by two of her relatives who were also trustees, lady Elizabeth Stepney of Llanelly and Admiral William Lloyd, Danyrallt
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
BOLD, HUGH (1731 - 1809), lawyer rose from humble beginnings to become a very prominent man in the affairs of the borough (four times bailiff), and was attorney for the Cyfarthfa and other iron-works in the early days of the industrial revolution. He was also a pillar of Wesleyan Methodism in Brecon; as steward of Wesley's Society he frustrated lady Huntingdon's attempt at monopolizing the first Methodist chapel there (c. 1771

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