Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Yarmouth to Portsmouth and from Grimsby to Cheltenham, addressing audiences on the subjects of the Conciliation Bill, the underpayment of women, prostitution and the political actions of Lloyd George. Although she shared the platform with other speakers (including Elizabeth Garrett Anderson) it is clear that she was seen as an inspirational spokeswoman for the cause who could hold the attention of very
AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader Said Ismail, who would go on to become the longest serving Imam in Britain prior to his death in 2011. Al-Hakimi was a pioneer and innovative Muslim leader, who was ahead of his time in terms of his vision for his own role as a Muslim leader in Britain. News reports shed light on his activities which range from attending civic functions, including the funeral for George VI in St John the Baptist City
ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY (1847 - 1907), archaeologist Born in London 9 June 1847, he came of an old Pembrokeshire family, the Allens of Cresselly, and no doubt owed his middle name to the fact that his grandfather had married a niece of Sir Samuel Romilly. His father was George Baugh Allen, J.P., of Cilrhiw, near Lampeter Velfrey; his mother was a daughter of Roger Eaton of Parc Glas, near Crinow. Deserting his father's profession of barrister (of
ANTHONY, DAVID BRYNMOR (1886 - 1966), school teacher and academic administrator , youngest daughter of George Tait Galloway Musson and his wife of Liverpool. They were married on 24 April 1918. There were two children, David Alan, and Lois Mary. He was made a freeman of the borough of Kidwelly in July 1924. He was an elder of Pembroke Terrace Presb. church, Cardiff, and was a member of the board of the Forward Movement of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. He believed firmly in the
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer adjudicators, the singer Henry Plunket Greene, to pursue a professional career. His tutor Gwilym R. Jones organised a local appeal fund to support a course of study in London, and Anthony studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1935 to 1939, under the tutelage of Norman Allin. He held the George Mence Smith scholarship, and at the end of his course won the Robert Radford Memorial Prize and the Rutson
AP THOMAS, DAFYDD RHYS (1912 - 2011), Old Testament scholar Hebrew, at his old college where he remained until his retirement in 1977. After his marriage with Menna Davies, the daughter of Reverend George and Mrs Marianne Davies, Bryn Bowydd, Blaenau Ffestiniog in 1940, the couple made their home in Bangor and Menai Bridge. They had two children, Keinion and Marian. Ap Thomas spent short periods away from Bangor - several times as visiting lecturer in Toronto
AUBREY, WILLIAM (1759 - 1827), engineer of Tredegar. Superintendent of the steam engines in the Tredegar iron-works. He was one of the pioneers of his craft in South Wales, specializing in the design and construction of all manner of machines powered by steam. As chief assistant to Watkin George, the mineral engineer, he shared the responsibility for the planning and erection, at the Cyfarthfa works, of the largest water system of its
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist landed safely by parachute in Schleswig Holstein, and spent the next years in a succession of prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland. Among those he met was John Buxton captured in Norway who knew Skokholm well having married Marjorie, one of Ronald Lockley's sisters, George Waterston badly injured in Crete and who later was to restore livelihood to Fair Isle, and Peter Conder captured with
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette speaking and other events. As a Welsh speaker, Rachel led a campaign in North Wales in the summer of 1910 during which she was part of a deputation which met with Lloyd George at his house in Cricieth. After arguing hotly with him for two and a half hours she left 'more convinced than before of his determined opposition to the WSPU and the insincerity of his support of the suffrage.' Shortly after this
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea Born 20 May 1874 in India, the son of Henry Clements Barstow, a civil servant, and Cecilia Clementina Baillie. The Barstows were long-established and prominent merchants in York. Following his marriage to the only daughter of Sir Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, George Barstow established a home near Builth and a connection with Wales. Barstow graduated from Emmanuel College
BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author Of Upper Bryn, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire. He was born at Monmouth and christened on 14 June 1814, the only son of George Trotham Baxter (1762-1841) of Hereford, and was a member of an old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newtown. Among his ancestors was Richard Baxter, the famous Presbyterian divine. He entered an Oxford college but did not graduate there. Four of his works are
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors All three sons of JOHN MATHIAS BERRY (born 2 May 1847 in Camrose, Pemb.; died 9 January 1917) and his wife Mary Ann (née Rowe, of Pembroke Dock), who moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1874, were created peers. J. M. Berry worked on the railway and as an accountant before becoming an estate agent and auctioneer in 1894. He was the mayor when King George V visited the town in 1912. The foundation stone of

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