Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine attendance at the school he left to work in the lead mines. Three years later he returned to Tal-y-bont as a pupil teacher. In 1863 he entered the Normal College, Bangor, and in 1867 commenced teaching at Bryn, Llanelly. Later, in 1869, he went to the Normal College, Swansea, and from 1870 to 1872 was a schoolmaster at Ystradgynlais. After a period of ill health he won a scholarship to the University
AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Born 1 August 1813 at Bangor, the only son of John and Elizabeth Ambrose. His great grandfather John Ambrose, a bootmaker, came from Ireland to Holyhead in 1715; one of his sons, Robert, became the second minister of the Baptist congregation at Bangor. Robert Ambrose had two sons - Robert, father of the Rev. W. R. Ambrose of Tal-y-sarn, and John (father of Emrys) - and a daughter (mother of John
AMBROSE, WILLIAM ROBERT (1832 - 1878), Baptist minister and antiquary Born 19 January 1832, at Galltraeth (Bryncroes, Llŷn), son of the Rev. Robert Ambrose (on whom see Spinther, iii, 367) - he was thus cousin to the poet William Ambrose. He was brought up as a tailor, and worked at his craft at Caernarvon, Liverpool, Bangor, Portmadoc, and Tal-y-sarn.In 1856 (at Bangor) he received baptism, and began preaching; and during the last years of his life was a paid
ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1143), prince endeavour. Anarawd again appears in association with the Northerners in 1140, when Owain and Cadwaladr appealed to bishop Bernard to support them in their opposition to the appointment of Meurig as bishop of Bangor; and proposed a conference at Aberdovey to which the Southern leader should be invited. This harmony was rudely broken in 1143, when Anarawd was treacherously murdered by the war band of
ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor . His successor was consecrated on 26 March 1307. It was in his time, in July 1280, that the see acquired the property in Shoe Lane, in the city of London, whereon was erected Bangor House, the London home of the bishops until the early 17th century
ANIAN (d. 1266), bishop of St Asaph royal mandate been put into possession of the lands of the see. Within two months he had been consecrated by Walter of Worcester, Richard of Bangor, and Richard of Meath. According to the chronicle of Wigmore (Rylands Library MS. 1090), this took place at Leominster. On 10 July 1250, Anian granted an indulgence to penitents visiting the altar of S. Mary and S. Edmund, which he had consecrated in the
AP THOMAS, DAFYDD RHYS (1912 - 2011), Old Testament scholar Dafydd ap Thomas was born 2 May 1912, in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest of the five sons of Reverend W. Keinion Thomas and his wife Jeanette; Gwyn, Alon, Iwan and Jac were his brothers and they had a younger sister, Truda. He received his early education at home and his secondary education at Beaumaris Grammar School before proceeding to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school, Wrexham, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised in
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian '; Bangor (1890), an essay on 'Bywyd Gwledig yng Nghymru …'; Swansea (1891), Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 hyd 1850, this work being published by the National Eisteddfod Association in 1893; Rhyl (1892), 'Llyfryddiaeth Cymreig y Bedwaredd-Ganrif-ar-Bymtheg,' a portion of this work, covering the years 1801 to 1810, being published by the National Eisteddfod Association in 1908; Chicago (1893), an essay
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge Atkin and his brothers were already back in the United Kingdom, living with their maternal grandmother at Pantlludw, Aberdyfi. Their mother, who travelled back to Australia a couple of months before their father's death, eventually returned to raise her sons in Wales. Atkin attended Friars School in Bangor from 1876, and in 1878 he moved to Christ College, Brecon. He went on in 1885 to read classics
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Llanedi, 1606-13, and was nominated bishop of Bangor in 1616. In 1611, most probably, appeared the first edition of his Practice of Piety, a book of devotion that became exceedingly popular; the 11th ed. appeared in 1619, the 71st in 1792; the 1st Welsh ed., translated by Rowland Vaughan of Caergai, came out in 1630 - Yr Ymarfer o Dduwioldeb - followed by five more editions (up to 1730). He rather
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician weeks for Paris, where he attended the lectures of Prof. Joseph Loth at the Collège de France and acted as Assistant in Welsh to Joseph Vendryes. He worked in Paris until 1925, when he was appointed tutor at the Normal College, Bangor, where he remained for the rest of his life, teaching Welsh, History and Scripture Knowledge at various times. Ambrose Bebb published six books on the history of Wales

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