Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge not sufficient means was passed; it is to him that we owe the general sympathy which this movement received. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1919, and created baron in 1928; he was elected F.B.A. in 1938. He married Lucy Elizabeth (died 1939), the eldest daughter of William Hemmant, Bulimba, Sevenoaks, formerly colonial treasurer, Queensland. Atkin lived for many years at Craig-y-don
AUBREY, WILLIAM (1759 - 1827), engineer
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer of his three sons (who erected it) and six daughters, describing him as 'a man of exquisite erudition, singular prudence, and great courtesy' (reproduced Dugdale, St. Paul's, 1716, 98-9). JOHN AUBREY (1626 - 1697), antiquary History and Culture William Aubrey's great-grandson, was brought up in Wiltshire, and inherited from him claims on land in Brecknock, which, while involving him in long
AUBREY, WILLIAM - see AWBREY, WILLIAM
AUGUSTUS, WILLIAM, a prescientific weather forecaster and translator (within the hour, it is said) the onset of rain, frost, gales, or thunderstorms. William Augustus would appear to be in the succession of the ancient Greek meteorologists, and, as the title of his work indicates, he writes (as they did) primarily for the husbandman, who from primitive times belonged to the class most likely to be directly concerned with weather prognostication.
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors , Cumberland, the son of William Bacon, a ship's captain, and his wife Elizabeth Richardson. By an indenture dated 29 August 1765, Anthony Bacon, then of London, and William Brownrigg, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, leased virgin mineral land, amounting to about 4,000 acres, stretching from Cyfarthfa for about eight miles down the Merthyr or Taff valley - a district which contained some of the best seams of coal
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, that it was his cousin William Crawshay I, of London, the then proprietor of Cyfarthfa, who prevented Crawshay Bailey from continuing in possession. It was Crawshay Bailey who constructed the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg, and this appears to confirm the tradition that he was connected with the Rhymney iron-works. During 1835, when the Calvinistic Methodist Association of South Wales held its
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, industry and coal-mining in all their branches. Later he was joined by his younger brother, Crawshay Bailey, and both won the favour of their uncle, who, at his death (1810), left a quarter share of the Cyfarthfa iron-works to Joseph. The latter looked around for a suitable district where he could establish his own iron-works, as his cousin, William Crawshay I, was anxious to become the sole proprietor
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic He was born at Abergavenny, of an old local family (of the same original stock as the Cecils) which had only recently dropped the Welsh patronymic for the English surname. His father, William Baker, a public-spirited man who did much for fruit culture and the cloth industry in his neighbourhood, was a J.P. and steward to the lords of Abergavenny; his mother, Maud Lewis, was daughter to Lewis
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer supporting roles to that of lead actor. Baker's first lead role was as Tom Yately in Cy Endfield's 1957 classic, Hell Drivers, opposite Patrick McGoohan and William Hartnell. Endfield had previously cast Baker in his 1956 drama Child in the House. The pair struck up a close working relationship and went on to establish Diamond Films - the production company responsible for making Zulu in 1964. As an actor
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer Born 2 March 1871, son of William Bancroft, Carmarthen Arms, Waterloo Street, Swansea, the eldest of 11 children. He plied his craft as a shoemaker. He was born in Carmarthen but was brought up in the shadow of Saint Helen's sports ground, Swansea. He played for the local youth team, the Excelsiors, before playing his first game for Swansea on 5 October 1889. After only 17 games, and without a
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

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