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  • BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer The date and place of his birth are uncertain. Born c. 1575, probably at Carmarthen, because of the prevalence of the Bayly surname there, and the particular reference to the town in his last will. Possibly the son of Thomas Bayly who was a curate at Carmarthen that year. He was at Abermarlais for a period and had the patronage of the family that lived there. He went to Exeter College, Oxford
  • 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.
  • BEALE, ANNE (1816 - 1900), writer Anne Beale made her home for many years at Llandilo, Carmarthenshire. She was the author of many novels and stories, mainly for girls, and of a volume of Poems published in 1842, the preface being signed 'Llwynhelig, Llandilo.' Several of her novels deal with the manners and customs of the Welsh people. Few English writers have written more appreciatively of Wales. Her works include The Vale of
  • BEAUFORT, Dukes of - see SOMERSET
  • BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter old leader Harris, was also attracted to Moravianism. In 1750, he went down to Pembrokeshire 'for his health,' according to a Moravian record, and preached there. He died at Haverfordwest, 22 June 1750, and was buried at Prendergast. There was Moravian preaching at the Gore from 1751 on, and there were Radnorshire members of the Leominster Moravian congregation.
  • 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
  • BEBB, LLEWELLYN JOHN MONTFORD (1862 - 1915), cleric principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. He was made an honorary canon of St. David's in 1910. He married Louisa Fraser of London in 1886 and they had four sons and three daughters. He died 22 November 1915 and was buried at Lampeter. One of his daughters was Gwyneth Marjory Bebb (1889-1921) who campaigned for the admission of women to the legal profession.
  • BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician Born 4 July 1894 at Blaendyffryn, Goginan, Cardiganshire, son of Edward and Ann Bebb. The family moved to Camer Fawr, near Tregaron, and Bebb attended Tregaron grammar school. He graduated in Welsh and History from U.C.W., Aberystwyth in 1918, and spent two years working for his M.A. In 1920 he went to Rennes University, but not finding there the facilities he had expected, he left after a few
  • BECK, THOMAS (d. 1293), bishop of S. Davids of chancellor, subdean, and succentor. From the Crown he obtained for the episcopal lands the right of free warren, and for the urban centres therein fairs and markets on specified days. When archbishop Peckham, in the course of a tour of Wales, came to S. Davids on 10 July 1284, he entered a formal protest; this attempt to revive an old controversy did not get very far, for Beck was reminded that
  • BEDLOE, WILLIAM (1650 - 1680), adventurer and Popish Plot informer Born at Chepstow, Monmouth. He progressed from thieving in England to swindling on the Continent and, on emerging from a spell in Valladolid prison, achieved the rare feat of stealing money from Titus Oates. In October 1678, on the conclusion of a six months' stay in Newgate, he embarked on an exceptionally successful career as an informer, by claiming to be able to reveal the facts of the murder
  • BEDO AEDDREN (fl. c. 1500), bard He lived at Aeddren, a farm near Llangwm Dinmael, Denbighshire. Llangwm and Dinmael are mentioned in his poems. The variant readings of the name of his home are numerous, e.g. Aerddrem, Aurdrem, Eurdrem, Oerddrym. He is said to have lived at or inherited the farm of Coed y Bedo, near Aeddren. It is likely that later in his life he resided near Bala. Like Bedo Brwynllys, he was one of Dafydd ap
  • BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at