Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation attracted enormous crowds. He would often sing to the audiences, as he was endowed with a good tenor voice. In 1860 he married Sarah, daughter of David Williams; she died in 1900, having borne him three sons and three daughters. Mabon was made a Privy Councillor in 1911. He died at Pentre, Rhondda, 14 May 1922.
ALEN, RHISIART ap RHISIART, author of 'Carol ymddiddan ag un marw ynghylch Purdan' author of this carol lived in that part of the country. His descriptions of the torments of those who loved overmuch the 'course of the world' (cwrs y byd) are very similar in their graphic style to those of Ellis Wynne.
ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN (1929 - 1997), footballer Ivor Allchurch was born on 16 October 1929 at 66 Waun-wen Road, Swansea. He was the sixth of seven children born to Charles Wilfred Allchurch (1894-1956) and his wife Mabel Sarah (née Miller; 1895-1982), who were both originally from Dudley in the West Midlands. His younger brother Leonard 'Len' Allchurch, (1933-2016) was also a well-known professional footballer and Welsh international. Their
APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES (Nimrod; 1779 - 1843), writer on sport Magazine, using the pen-name ' Nimrod'; his articles attracted immediate attention and increased the circulation of the magazine, but in 1830 he was compelled to flee to Calais to escape his creditors. He returned to England in 1842, and died in Upper Belgrave Place, Pimlico, 19 May 1843. His second son, Major WILLIAM WYNNE APPERLEY, of the Indian Army, died at Morben, near Machynlleth, 25 April 1872
APPERLEY, WILLIAM WYNNE (d. 1872), Major in the Indian Army - see APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton Hall, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
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
BELLIS, MARY EDITH - see NEPEAN, MARY EDITH
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors six sons and a daughter. He married (2), 20 April 1931, Edith, formerly wife of C.W. Dresselhuys. He was created Baronet in 1928, a week before his first wife died, first Baron Kemsley of Farnham Royal in 1936, first Viscount Kemsley of Dropmore in 1945, and G.B.E. in 1959. He died in Monte Carlo, 6 February 1968.
BEYNON, ROBERT (1881 - 1953), minister (Presb.), poet and essayist church, Aber-craf, in the upper reaches of the Swansea valley, all his life (1910-53). He married Sarah Rebeca Thomas of Trehopcyn, near Pontypridd, and they had two daughters (one adopted). As one of Watcyn Wyn's 'boys' he became interested in poetry writing, and one of his chaired poems' Tyred, Canlyn Fi ' was published in 1912. He won the crown at the national eisteddfod in Ammanford in 1922 for his
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn,
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, , daughter of John Griffith, Cefn Amwlch. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and on 27 October 1639 entered St. John's College, Cambridge (following his elder brothers John and Hugh), under the tutorship of his uncle William Bodwrda, and holding a scholarship founded by Dr. John Gwyn in 1574 from rents in Maenan, on the nomination of his second cousin Robert Wynne, Bodysgallen, as 'neerest in relation of

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