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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
career developed he was commissioned to build a palace for Maharaja Umaid Singh, who himself served as aide-de-campe to the Prince of Wales. His employer, Henry Vaughan Lanchester, whose support brought Abdul-Hamid to Britain, had also built Cardiff City
Hall
, a jewel of Welsh architecture. And finally, the Second World War had made him relocate to north Wales. Throughout his life then, he would have
ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN
(1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist
chapel, Moriah, Leytonstone, which was a convenient meeting place for the many young Welshmen who flocked to London at that time. Several Welsh societies in London received generous donations from him. He did his utmost to further the Welsh language and was a founder-member of the London Welsh School which opened in September 1961 in temporary premises in St. David's church
hall
. Later he provided a
ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN
(1929 - 1997), footballer
size bronze statue of him by sculptor Michael Field (born 1964) was unveiled outside the South Stand which was commissioned by the club's supporters. Some of the more superstitious supporters are in the habit of tapping Allchurch's boot as a good luck talisman before games. Allchurch was also inducted into the National Football
Hall
of Fame, Manchester, in 2015. A shy and modest man, his
ALLEN, JAMES
(1802 - 1897), dean of S. Davids and antiquary
, 1847-70, chancellor and residentiary canon of S. Davids, 1870-8, rural dean of Dewisland, 1875, and dean of S. Davids cathedral, 1878-95. He married Isabella Dorothea, daughter of Peter Rickard Hoare of Kilsey
Hall
, Kent. He was a good antiquary and a keen member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association; he devoted much time and money to the restoration of S. Davids cathedral, especially the west
ALLGOOD
family
Thomas I. He entered into a financial partnership with John Davies and William Edwards. Their chief limner and decorator was
Benjamin
Barker, father of Thomas Barker of Bath; during this period the quality of the Pontypool lacquer was at its zenith; and the Pontypool firm issued a challenge (which was not taken up) to its rival at Usk. Thomas IV died 22 November 1779 and was buried in Pen-y-garn
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR
(1912 - 1984), singer
Beecham, who invited him to sing the part of King Mark in a broadcast performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in 1946. From 1948 onward he appeared at Covent Garden and at a number of important music festivals, at Leeds, Edinburgh and Aldeburgh, under the direction of
Benjamin
Britten. In June 1958 it was he who created the part of the Voice of God in Britten's opera Noye's Fludde. Between 1946 and
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR
(1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
, London, students in the General Library in 1940 caused accommodation and staffing problems. Trestle tables and 120 chairs were borrowed from the Parish
Hall
as temporary measures and in response to a request for additional staff, University College, London, agreed to transfer two members of their Library staff to the College. In February 1942 Arthur ap Gwynn left his post as Librarian for National
ATKIN, LEON
(1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales
the service. He was moved in 1932 to the Methodist Central
Hall
in Bargoed and in a short period of time he transformed the institution. Atkin utilised the large chapel and its schoolroom to assist the unemployed by opening the building every day of the week, and he established a shoe repairing workshop, a barber shop, and a kitchen which provided free meals. He converted part of the building as a
AUBREY, WILLIAM
(c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer
Son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref, Brecknock. He is said to have been educated at Christ College, Brecon, whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford, taking his B.C.L. in 1549, his doctorate in 1554, becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn
Hall
. He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law, but Strype's conjecture
BAKER, DAVID
(1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic
grounding in Greek and the humanities and a knowledge of the Bible which he found useful in his later career. In 1590 he went on to Broadgates
Hall
(now Pembroke College), Oxford, under the tuition of William Prichard, a kinsman of his at Christ Church, later vicar of Abergavenny and Caerwent. Dissatisfied with his progress, his father recalled him in 1592 and sent him to study law under his brother
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON
(1854 - 1946), judge
Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton
Hall
, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
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