Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Born 1 August 1813 at Bangor, the only son of John and Elizabeth Ambrose. His great grandfather John Ambrose, a bootmaker, came from Ireland to Holyhead in 1715; one of his sons, Robert, became the second minister of the Baptist congregation at Bangor. Robert Ambrose had two sons - Robert, father of the Rev. W. R. Ambrose of Tal-y-sarn, and John (father of Emrys) - and a daughter (mother of John
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer Trevor Anthony was born on 28 October 1912 in Tŷ-croes, near Ammanford, the eldest son of David John Anthony and his wife Adeline (née Lewis). After leaving school he worked underground while receiving singing tuition from Gwilym R. Jones. He came to prominence when, at the age of only 21, he won the bass solo competition at the Neath National Eisteddfod of 1934, and was encouraged by one of the
ANWYL, LEWIS (1705? - 1776), cleric and author Abraham … Argraphwyd yn y Mwythig, gan R. Lathrop, Tros Dafydd Jones, 1740; (b) Myfyrdodau Wythnosawl …; (c) Cyngor yr Athraw i Rieni …; (b) and (c) are bound with (a); (d) Cristianowgrwydd Catholig, neu Draethawd bŷrr tuagat Leihau gwrth ddadlau Ymhlith Cristianogion … yn enwedig ymhlith y plwyfolion hynny, lle y mae'r Methodistiaid neu Hoffwyr Crefydd y Goleuni newydd yn cael cynhwysiad … Wedi ei
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1975. Arthur ap Gwynn died in Bronglais Hospital, Aberystwyth, 10 December 1987, at the age of 85. On the day of his funeral, 16 December, a commemorative service was held in the College chapel. The Rev. D. R. Thomas delivered a prayer and read from the Scriptures while a tribute was given by Professor Emeritus J. E. Caerwyn Williams. T. Gwynn Jones's hymn 'Gosber' was sung to the tune Ombersley. His
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales , David Llewelyn Mort. He did well, coming third out of six, saving his deposit, and receiving 8% of the vote, more than the Communist and Plaid Cymru candidates together. The result was as follows: Neil McBride (Labour), 18,909; R. Owens (Liberal) 4,895; Reverend Leon Atkin (People's Party), 2,464: Miss A. P. Thomas (Conservative), 2,272; E. Chris Rees (Plaid Cymru), 1,620; Bert Pearce (Communist Party
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
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, , Joseph set about purchasing estates in Brecknock, Radnorshire, Herefordshire, Glamorgan, etc. Among them was that of Glanusk Park, where he lived for the rest of his life, having in 1830 retired from personal direction of the works. His brother Crawshay Bailey now had the responsibility of management. On 19 August 1830 Joseph married, as his second wife, Mary Ann, daughter of J. T. H. Hopper of Wilton
BARHAM family Trecŵn, - 1878), M.P. for Appleby (1832), J.P. for Pembroke and Westmorland, and M.A., Oxford. He married (1), 1836, Elizabeth Maria (died 1860), daughter of William Boyd Ince of Ince, co. Lancaster, and (2), Ellen Catherine, daughter of E. T. Massey, of Cottesmore, Pembrokeshire From about 1855 it was the Rev. Charles Foster-Barham and his first wife who mainly supported a school (first kept across the
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist Southwold, followed by Repton from 1927 to 1932, leaving to go to Cambridge to read zoology. He subsequently changed to economics and then geography. It was not until 1932 that he paid any attention in the natural world, but in that year he 'discovered' T. A. Coward's The Birds of the British Isles and their Eggs. Among those who influenced him was the great Norfolk naturalist Ted Ellis and Jim Vincent
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist (there is a copy in NLW MS 12416D) was read at a meeting of the Royal Society held 6 June 1771. His notes on 'The Language of Birds' were reprinted in T. Pennant, British Zoology. There are letters from Barrington to friends in North Wales in NLW MS 2065E (one dated 19 October 1775, to Paul Panton, senior), regarding Inigo Jones, Sir John Wynne of Gwydir and Llanrwst bridge, NLW MS 3484C (dated 8 March
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician Conservative T. H. Ensor offered some caustic alternatives in a letter that was published - and lives on in libel law today. He put forward instead: 'traitor to the Crown... hater of the clergy... sincerely mourned by unpaid creditors'. Editor Lascelles Carr and writer Ensor were prosecuted for criminal libel in a famous case that set a libel precedent. The judge declared 'the dead have no rights and suffer
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Grammar School Gerald Battrick showed considerable promise as a junior tennis player, and in 1962 aged 15 years he was awarded a scholarship to Millfield School, Somerset. Among his fellow pupils was the future rugby international J. P. R. Williams (born 1949), also a Bridgend boy and a junior tennis champion who described Battrick as his role model. In 1965 Battrick had his first major successes

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