Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABEL, SIÔN (fl. 18th century), Montgomeryshire ballad-writer Author of ' Cerdd yn erbyn medd-dod, celwydd a chybydd-dra ' (Song against drunkenness, lies and miserliness), which was published by H. Lloyd, of Shrewsbury, in a booklet of three ballads, recorded as No. 154 in J. H. Davies's Bibliography of Welsh Ballads. An English song of ten stanzas in the Welsh metre known as tri-thrawiad is to be found in NLW MS 14402B, a manuscript book in the hand of
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.
ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author , Caernarfonshire, where he died, by drowning, 23 July 1949; he was buried in Penllech, Caernarfonshire churchyard. A younger brother of Sir Edward Anwyl, he contributed extensively to the Welsh press. He edited reprints of Drych y prif oesoedd and Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc, was author of Y pulpud bach (1924), Yr arian mawr (1934), Fy hanes i fy hunan (1933), and Englynion (1933), and prepared translations
ANWYL, LEWIS (1705? - 1776), cleric and author
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies concerning him developed into a curious amalgam of oral traditions about the wounded king who would one day return to liberate his fellow-countrymen (and there is contemporary evidence that this belief was current in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany in the 12th century), pseudo-historical records and creations of the imagination of one author after another. Thus was formed one of the richest romantic cycles
AURELIUS CANINUS (fl. 540), prince Aurelianus stigmatized earlier in the work. 'Caninus' may have been a jest of the author at the expense of the prince's Celtic name. Aurelius is held up to scorn as a man of unclean life, a murderer, a lover of civil war and plunder. His relatives are all dead and he stands alone, like a dry tree in an open field. The notice ends with a stern call to repentance. In the deft hands of Geoffrey of Monmouth
AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN (1888 - 1969), politician, local historian and author general election he was elected M.P. (L.) for the Bristol Central constituency. He was re-elected with a large majority in 1950, 1951, 1955 and 1959, but decided to resign in 1964. He was a member of a parliamentary deputation to Malaya in 1948 and a member of the Select Committee on Estimates in 1950-51. He was an enthusiastic prolific local historian and author of several important works including
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop is to be identified with Jerome Barlow, author of The Burial of the Mass, A Dialogue between a Gentleman and a Husbandman, and other antipapist pamphlets, though he recanted, and published in 1531 a Dialogue … of These Lutheran Factions (second edition, 1553), an anti-Lutheran pamphlet. Through Anne Boleyn's patronage, he became prior of Haverfordwest in 1534, and while there complained bitterly to
BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Golden Apophthegms of 1660 (sayings of king Charles I and the marquis), and whether Thomas Bayly was the real author of the Life and Death…of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Anthony Wood has succeeded only too well in casting doubts on the authorship of this Life of 1655, and on the exact year of Bayly's death - for the moment it stands at 1657.
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

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