Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 organizing gatherings, his networks amongst Muslims and the influential circles of Britain, and his belief in the alignment of Islamic interests and British interests culminated in the launch of a new organization he founded in 1944. The Society of Friends of the Islamic World was launched on 13 June 1944 with a luncheon at the Savoy Hotel, London, presided over by Edward Turnour, Lord Winterton. In
ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer by his profession. At Bruges, he gave an ear to the overtures of Northumberland, then plotting against the king, but, luckily for his future, did not go so far as to involve himself in the earl's overthrow. In 1408, he made for Wales, landing at Barmouth, and hoping, as his chronicle avers, to get to the lordship of Powis, then held by Edward Charlton, whose first wife's dower included Usk. Whether
ALBAN, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1882 - 1965), chartered accountant and administrator to 1916, when he resigned to become secretary and controller of the Welsh National Memorial Association established by David Davies, aft. Lord Davies (1880 - 1944), and his sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret to commemorate King Edward VII and to combat tuberculosis in Wales. He acted as accountant for the Ministry of Food in Wales, 1918-19. He resigned from his post with the Memorial Assoc. in 1922
ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess ), registrar of St Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (died 1602), William Lloyd, M.A., rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfechain, 1590-1600, and Llanwrin, and canon of St Asaph cathedral, 1587-1600, and Edward Lloyd (died 1639), proctor of St Asaph. Little has been preserved of her bardic compositions - englynion on the type of husband she desired and on her views on her father's second marriage in old
ALLGOOD family was buried in the Quakers' graveyard at Pontymoile. His son, EDWARD ALLGOOD I (1681 - 1763), was John Hanbury's principal agent in his ironworks; but he also made important improvements in japanning; he died 9 January 1763 and was buried in Llanfrechfa churchyard. Before his death, his japanning works were being carried on by two of his sons. The elder, THOMAS ALLGOOD II (born c. 1707), made (about
ALMER family Almer, Pant Iocyn, away. The family became important in Denbighshire politics after the Acts of Union, EDWARD ALMER (grandson of the first John Almer), serving as sheriff in 1554 and as knight of the shire in 1555; it was probably a different Edward Almer who was sheriff in 1571. WILLIAM ALMER succeeded his father in Parliament in 1572. The religious allegiance of the family was dubious as late as 1574, but politically
ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1143), prince Letterston had persecuted the clergy and people of the Pebidiog peninsula. In 1138, with his brother Cadell, he joined Owain and Cadwaladr, now dominating Ceredigion, in an attack upon Cardigan castle which was still held by the Normans; a formidable array of Viking ships appeared in furtherance of the enterprise at the mouth of the Teify, but hostilities were suspended by a truce and nothing came of the
ANGHARAD (d. 1162) She was the wife of Gruffudd ap Cynan, was a daughter of Owain ab Edwin, a chieftain of eastern Gwynedd. She married Gruffudd about 1095, during his early struggle for power, and survived her husband many years, dying in 1162. Their children were Cadwallon (died 1132), Owain (Gwynedd), and Cadwaladr, and five daughters, named Gwenllian, Marared (Margaret), Rainillt, Susanna, and Annest. Of these
ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor of the tithes of royal dues in Englefield. There is, however, no warrant for the statement that his gains included manors bestowed upon him as having baptized the infant Edward at Caernarvon. The remaining twenty years of his life were uneventful. In July 1291 he held a synod of the clergy of the diocese in the church of Llanfair Garthbrannan, i.e. Old S. Mary's, a little to the north of his
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph , though solemn attempts have been made to find a home for it in the neighbourhood of Rotterdam. That Anian was a son of Ynyr of Nannau (fl. 1280) there is nothing to show, and it is most unlikely that he was ever confessor to Edward I. The Peniarth chronicle sums up Anian II as the best and stoutest upholder ever seen of the rights of his bishopric - a description fully borne out by the events of his
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen to Edward, eldest son of Edward Anwyl of Bodtalog, Towyn, his heir-at-law, in addition to other bequests. The will was the subject of litigtion for many years, and although in 1716 the Master in Chancery considered that the estates if sold would not discharge the debts, legacies, and costs, they eventually passed, however encumbered, to the Williams es and the Owen s. Park and Llwyn were mortgaged

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