Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Alice Abadam was born in London on 2 January 1856, the seventh and youngest child of Edward Abadam (formerly Adams, 1810-1875) and his wife Louisa (née Taylor, 1828-1886). Alice grew up at Middleton Hall (now the National Botanic Gardens of Wales) which had been bought by her paternal grandfather, Edward Hamlin Adams, in 1824 on his return from Jamaica where the family had had slave-owning
ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader organizing gatherings, his networks amongst Muslims and the influential circles of Britain, and his belief in the alignment of Islamic interests and British interests culminated in the launch of a new organization he founded in 1944. The Society of Friends of the Islamic World was launched on 13 June 1944 with a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, London, presided over by Edward Turnour, Lord Winterton. In
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 OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer by his profession. At Bruges, he gave an ear to the overtures of Northumberland, then plotting against the king, but, luckily for his future, did not go so far as to involve himself in the earl's overthrow. In 1408, he made for Wales, landing at Barmouth, and hoping, as his chronicle avers, to get to the lordship of Powis, then held by Edward Charlton, whose first wife's dower included Usk. Whether
ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), poet and writer of prophecies According to John Davies and Thomas Stephens, he flourished about 1240. He is referred to in Peniarth MS 94 (26) and Llanstephan MS. 119 (82), as living about 1038, and contemporary with Goronwy Ddu o Fôn. But in G. P. Jones, Anglesey Court Rolls, 1346, 37, 39, mention is made of 'the son of Adda Fras ' and 'the suit of Goronwy Ddu, attorney for the community of the township of Porthgir.' In
ALBAN, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1882 - 1965), chartered accountant and administrator the gold medal of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. He was also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. For two years he was accountant to the United Water Board of Pontypridd and Rhondda, when he came to the notice of Thomas Jones (1870 - 1955) who saw in him the making of a deputy accountant for the Welsh National Insurance Commission, a post which he held from 1912
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.
ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess ), registrar of St Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (died 1602), William Lloyd, M.A., rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfechain, 1590-1600, and Llanwrin, and canon of St Asaph cathedral, 1587-1600, and Edward Lloyd (died 1639), proctor of St Asaph. Little has been preserved of her bardic compositions - englynion on the type of husband she desired and on her views on her father's second marriage in old
ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN (1929 - 1997), footballer finals, before bowing out to eventual winners Brazil. He married Esme Thomas from Swansea on 13 June 1953. They had two sons, John Stephen Allchurch (born 1954) and David Ivor Allchurch (born 1961). Allchurch made a total of 782 Football League club appearances (including all cup competitions), scoring a remarkable 284 times. He played for his native Swansea Town from 1947 until 1958, making a total of
ALLGOOD family was buried in the Quakers' graveyard at Pontymoile. His son, EDWARD ALLGOOD I (1681 - 1763), was John Hanbury's principal agent in his ironworks; but he also made important improvements in japanning; he died 9 January 1763 and was buried in Llanfrechfa churchyard. Before his death, his japanning works were being carried on by two of his sons. The elder, THOMAS ALLGOOD II (born c. 1707), made (about
ALMER family Almer, Pant Iocyn, away. The family became important in Denbighshire politics after the Acts of Union, EDWARD ALMER (grandson of the first John Almer), serving as sheriff in 1554 and as knight of the shire in 1555; it was probably a different Edward Almer who was sheriff in 1571. WILLIAM ALMER succeeded his father in Parliament in 1572. The religious allegiance of the family was dubious as late as 1574, but politically
ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor of the tithes of royal dues in Englefield. There is, however, no warrant for the statement that his gains included manors bestowed upon him as having baptized the infant Edward at Caernarvon. The remaining twenty years of his life were uneventful. In July 1291 he held a synod of the clergy of the diocese in the church of Llanfair Garthbrannan, i.e. Old S. Mary's, a little to the north of his

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