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  • ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Sisters of the Holy Ghost in Carmarthen, a group of nuns who had been displaced from a convent in Brittany. In 1903 the two Alices left Carmarthen to live in London. Thus, Abadam arrived, aged forty-eight, onto a London scene that was bristling with the activities of suffrage campaigners. She was to become an able and energetic activist for the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society. Alice Abadam was an
  • ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader attendance were a long list of high society individuals, including the Turkish Ambassador, Lady Willingdon (widow to the former Viceroy of India Marquess Willingdon), and Leo Amery, the Secretary of State for India. Ten days after the launch of the Society of Friends of the Islamic World, Sheikh Abdul-Hamid was killed by 'enemy action' in southern England on 23 June 1944, aged 44 (though his death
  • ABEL, JOHN (1770 - 1819), Welsh Independent minister Born in Llanybri, Carmarthenshire, 1770, son of William Abel, one of the founders of Capel Newydd in that village. It is said that he attended the Carmarthen Academy but this establishment was in Swansea at that time. In 1794 he succeeded David Davies (died 1807) as minister of the small congregation at Capel Sul, Kidwelly and he also kept a school. John Abel was not orthodox, according to the
  • ABEL, SIÔN (fl. 18th century), Montgomeryshire ballad-writer Humphrey Jones of Castle Caereinion (born 1719), which contains, together with other matter, a number of songs by poets of the Meifod and Caereinion districts. The song already mentioned bears the title ' A Christmas Carol, 1783, o waith fy hen feistr,' and it is followed by the note: 'Yr hen Siôn Abel a'i canodd' ('by old Siôn Abel'). It may be presumed that Siôn Abel, the master, did not dwell far from
  • ABLETT, NOAH (1883 - 1935), miner and Trade Union leader between the owners and workers in a capitalist society. He opposed any move to conciliate or compromise with the owners and called for the use of the strike not merely for improvement in the lot of the worker but to eliminate the owners altogether. To this end he advocated general strikes to foment a spirit of class warfare. He first became prominent in the violent and bitter dispute in the Rhondda when
  • ABRAHAM (d. 1080), bishop of S. Davids Abraham succeeded to the see on the resignation of Sulien in 1078. According to MS. C of Ann. C., he was murdered by the 'gentiles' who ravaged S. Davids in 1080. The inscribed memorial cross of his sons, Hedd and Isaac, was discovered in the cathedral in 1891.
  • ABRAHAM (d. 1232), bishop of St Asaph Consecrated by Stephen Langton at Westminster 29 June 1225. His previous record is not known, but he was probably a Welshman. Peniarth MS 20 names him 'euream.' In 1227 he granted to Valle Crucis the second half of the church of Wrexham, and in 1232 to the same abbey a portion of Llangollen church.
  • ABRAHAM, RICHARD (fl. 1673-1700), poet Probably of Anglesey. His poetry, in strict and free metres, is preserved in NLW MS 9B, NLW MS 253A, NLW MS 593E, NLW MS 645B, NLW MS 832E, NLW MS 1238B, NLW MS 1774E.
  • ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation Born 14 June 1842, at Cwmafan, fourth son of Thomas and Mary Abraham, he was educated at Cwmafan National School, became a tinplater and then a miner, commencing as a 'door boy.' In 1870 he was elected a miners' agent and played a prominent part in the struggle which led to the agreement for drawing up a sliding scale of wages in the coalfields in relation to prices and profits in December 1875
  • ADAM (d. 1181), bishop of St Asaph writers, both ancient and modern, to identify him with the well-known schoolman, Adam du Petit Pont, also a canon of Paris and in his day a prominent theologian and disputant. But this cannot be reconciled with the account given by Gerald of Wales of the friendship between him and the bishop, when, as he says, they were fellow students in Paris, not well-to-do and in a private station, for the elder
  • ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer He drew his origin from the town of Usk, on the river of that name. He owed his start in life to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd earl of March, who held the lordship of Usk as part of the inheritance of his wife, Philippa, and who in 1369 gave Adam the means to study civil and canon law at Oxford. In due course, he took the degree of doctor of laws and settled as a teacher of law in the university, where
  • ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine schools. In 1884 he won a prize at the National Eisteddfod at Liverpool for an essay on Hegel. From that time on he sought, in his own words, to 'do away with the idea of contingency in theology and to substitute for it inevitability.' In 1888 he moved to Bethesda, Caernarfonshire. His sermons now tended to stress the ethical rather than the controversial aspects of Christianity. He achieved success in