Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation miners' representative from South Wales; he represented Rhondda West, 1918-22. He was associated with the radical wing of the Liberal Party until 1906 when the Labour Party became a separate political organization, although the Miners' Federation did not become affiliated until 1909. Mabon, however, did not take an active part in political life; his main importance lies in the history of trade unionism
ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist they had two sons. He died 26 May 1968 in Brynawelon, Llanrhystud, Cardiganshire, his home since 1963. He played an active part locally, becoming president of the Liberal Association and of the Rotary Club at Walthamstow and worked with the Association of Youth Clubs there, being himself a sportsman. When Moriah (Welsh Presb.) chapel, Walthamstow, became too small he instigated the building of a new
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales remained on the Council in the name of the Labour Party until 1947 when he was asked, because of his constant criticism, to stand in another ward. He refused and formed his own political party called The People's Party and he kept his seat until he lost it 17 years later in 1964. He stood as a Parliamentary candidate at Swansea East in the by-election on 28 March 1963 as a result of the death of the MP
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician force in Wales, he broke their political control when he spearheaded the successful campaign to elect Liberal-Nonconformist Walter Coffin as Cardiff MP, ousting the Butes' favoured long-serving Conservative MP John Nicholl. Significantly, Coffin was the first Nonconformist MP elected in Wales, underlining Batchelor's key role in the nationwide political shift that saw the long ascendancy of Liberal
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure Greenfields, Machynlleth, now Plas Machynlleth. Beaumont was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford where he took his B.A. in 1923, and proceeded to M.A. in 1953. A man of independent means, he pursued a political career, but as an Unionist, not a Liberal like his father. In 1929 he stood for the Cannock division of Staffordshire and came second in the poll. He was more successful in 1931 when he was
BELL, RONALD MCMILLAN (1914 - 1982), Conservative politician Bell had lent support to Churchill's caretaker government. Ronald Bell was the Conservative MP for Buckinghamshire South from 1950 until 1974 and for the re-mapped Beaconsfield division from 1974 until 1982. This was a constituency full of the echoes of Benjamin Disraeli. He thus sat for one of the safest Conservative seats in the whole of the United Kingdom, a fact which gave him freedom to follow
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician . He had been a partner in Cohen, Laming and Hoare. He served in the Territorial Army even before the 1939-45 war, and in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and the General Staff during World War Two; he gained the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was awarded an OBE in 1945. He was the Conservative MP for Flintshire, 1945-50, and, following the redistribution of parliamentary constituencies, West Flintshire
BLIGH, STANLEY PRICE MORGAN (1870 - 1949), landowner and author customs. For worship he had no use, but he found relief in composing metrical prayers, and there was a strong element of mysticism in his makeup. Though a professed Liberal he took little part in politics, but he gave years of valuable service on the county council. When the fourth national conference, circa 1893, failed to reach agreement on the matter, Bligh erected his own memorial to Llywelyn ap
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician leader of the Social Democrat peers for twelve months. Between 1984 and 1992, he acted as one of the deputy speakers in the House of Lords. When he retired from this office, he announced that he was joining the Liberal Democrat Party. Bert Bowden had a military bearing and he was of average height, with a small and neat moustache; a man of few words, he had been nicknamed the 'Sergeant Major' by the
BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer attained the rank of captain. He served as an officer on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General. He was elected the Liberal MP for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945 as the successor to the recently deceased Sir David Owen Evans, and was re-elected there in five successive general elections, but was defeated by D. Elystan Morgan (Labour) in the general election of 1966. Bowen - 'the
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary gained general confidence by his ability, integrity, and judicial temper. David Lloyd George, as a beginner in his office, owed much to his kindness. In politics he was a Liberal, in religion a Churchman. He married in 1863 Margaret Jane, daughter of Lewis Williams of Fron Wnion, Dolgelley, sheriff of his county in 1865. From an early age, Breese developed a strong interest in local antiquities. Many
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician working-class Kilburn Ward on Hampstead Borough Council from Labour in 1948. Her husband was already a member of the Council and had served as Conservative MP for Lewisham from 1938 to 1945. Barbara Brooke was particularly able at committee work where she combined a tactful and pleasant manner with considerable determination. Her success as a borough councillor helped Henry Brooke to obtain the

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