Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors Though the Dowlais Iron Co. had been formed in 1759 and John Guest of Broseley had been engaged as its manager early in 1760, it was ANTHONY BACON (1717 - 1786) who was the real originator of the pre-eminence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Great Britain, and who converted it from a hamlet into a flourishing manufacturing town. He was baptized on 24 January 1717 at St Bees
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, . This had been used as a summer resort by the descendants of Anthony Bacon, and it was from the executors of Anthony Bacon II (died 1827) that Crawshay Bailey bought the estate in 1836, conveyed to him by indenture dated 17 February 1837. Underneath were some of the finest seams of coal and iron-ore in the world, but so far nothing had been done to develop them, and it was nine years before-he
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa offered scope for the investment of the wealth, he arrived in Merthyr, took over Homfray's lease at Cyfarthfa for boring cannon, and after the death (1786) of Anthony Bacon I, secured the lease of the Cyfarthfa works during the minority of Bacon's sons; eventually he bought the share of Anthony Bacon II and became sole proprietor (1794). He adopted Cort's methods of puddling and rolling mills, built new
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet was Roger Bacon. Sixteenth century scholars attributed the 'llyfr cerddwriaeth' to Dafydd Ddu and to Einion Offeiriad. Einion flourished about the beginning of the 14th century; it is sometimes suggested that what Dafydd Ddu did was to add to Einion's work. Neither of them is mentioned in the earliest manuscripts of the work except as persons who framed three metres (or measures), three manuscripts
ELLIOT, Sir GEORGE (1815 - 1893), BARONET, owner and developer of coalmines old estate of the Mathews of Aberaman, a branch of the ancient family of Radyr and Llandaff, and gentry of the district before becoming extinct in 1788. There, in their mansion (which had been renovated extensively by a previous purchaser, Anthony Bacon, II), Elliot lived at intervals; and there, after his day, Powell Duffryn made their headquarters. Powell Duffryn proceeded under the leadership of
HILL family, Plymouth iron-works, Merthyr Tydfil RICHARD HILL I (died 1806), who had had experience in Anthony Bacon's iron-works (at Cyfarthfa and Hirwaun), became Bacon's trusted manager of the Plymouth iron-works. He was elected a burgess or freeman of Cardiff in 1784. He married Mary, the sister of Mrs. Bacon, and named his youngest son (born in 1784) Anthony, after Anthony Bacon. On the death of Anthony Bacon, as all the natural children
HOMFRAY family, iron-masters Penydarren FRANCIS HOMFRAY (1726 - 1798) Business and Industry of Wollaston Hall, Worcestershire, having attained ample means by his success as an iron-master in the counties of Stafford and Worcester, and having two energetic and capable iron-workers as sons, Jeremiah and Samuel, sought an outlet for their further perseverance and enterprise by leasing from Anthony Bacon, Cyfarthfa, a mill for boring
JONES, THEOPHILUS (1759 - 1812), historian of Brecknock January 1812, and was buried at Llangamarch. His widow died on 22 July 1828, and was buried in Myddfai churchyard. He was Welsh -speaking, author of an unpublished English version of Ellis Wynne's Bardd Cwsc, and at one time owner of the ' Book of Aneirin ' - this was given him by Anthony Bacon and passed after his death into Thomas Price's hands. He had intended writing a history of Radnorshire, and
MANSEL, Sir ROBERT (1573 - 1656), admiral , who died in 1656 (his will was administered by his widow on 20 June 1656), had been twice married: (1), before 1600, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Nicholas Bacon, lord keeper, and (2), 1617, to Anne, daughter of Sir John Roper. There was no issue of either marriage.
PRICE, WATKIN WILLIAM (1873 - 1967), schoolmaster, researcher the most important areas in Wales in the 19th c. His labours resulted in valuable essays, records and transcripts in fields varying from monastic to mining. One can but marvel at his feat in copying during 1941-43, in his old age, many hundreds of detailed pages from the complicated mining deeds of the district. He rescued an unique 1827-28 volume of drawings by the nieces of Anthony Bacon II which
THELWALL family Plas y Ward, Bathafarn, Plas Coch, Llanbedr, 1593, and for Denbighshire from March to June 1614. He married Ann Biggs, who owned an estate in Essex. He was alive in 1631. AMBROSE THELWALL (1570 - 1652) Ninth son of John Wynn Thelwall. He spent some time in the service of Sir Francis Bacon before being appointed to the office of yeoman of the robes to James I, Charles I, and Charles II (while he was prince of Wales). He died 5 August 1652, and
TREVOR family Trevalun, Plas Têg, Glynde, of his patron, but also active in Welsh concerns like those of the jurisdiction of Ludlow (1606) and the Glamorgan floods of 1607. He stoutly resisted, in 1613, a proposed enquiry into naval administration and was named in the impeachment of Bacon (1621) as one of those who had bribed him. After his patron's death (1624) Trevor turned to the 3rd earl of Pembroke, who provided him with Cornish

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