Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess
AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur there that Emrys was born. He was educated first at Friars School and later at Holyhead in the school kept by W. Griffith (1801 - 1881). Some time about 1828 he was apprenticed to a draper in Liverpool, where he became a member of the Tabernacle, Great Crosshall Street, of which John Breese was the minister. In 1834 he moved to London to work in a shop in the Borough Road. He joined the Boro' church
ANTHONY, GRIFFITH (1846 - 1897), musician
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen The Anwyl s of Park, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd, derived from Robert ap Morris of Park (died 1576), fourth son of Morris ap John ap Meredydd of Rhiwaedog, whose exploits are recorded in the The history of the Gwydir family by Sir John Wynn. The younger sons of Robert ap Morris took the surname Roberts: John, of Vanner, being father of David, rector of Llanbedrog, chaplain to the earl of Warwick
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth folklore since the book appeared in 1930. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than the publication of the Cofiant to his father in 1973 by David Jenkins and the bibliography Llyfryddiaeth Thomas Gwynn Jones edited by D. Hywel Roberts in 1981. He had contributed 550 items to the latter. Tall and erect in bearing, determined in step with a slight shadow of a smile over his moustache, he was a man of strong
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist council and vice-president of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He married in 1893, Margaret Elizabeth (died May 1943), elder daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, London, and Plas Dinas, Caernarfon, and they had one son (Ronald Owen Lloyd Armstrong-Jones whose son, Lord Snowdon, married Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II), and two daughters. He died 31 January 1943.
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer (Cranmer, 576) that he was deprived for 'incompliance' seems to be unfounded. Elizabeth allowed him (23 February 1559) to alienate the office to John Griffith, B.C.L. (Rymer, Foedera, xv, 565). Aubrey now devoted himself to his practice in the prerogative and ecclesiastical courts as Master in Chancery (c. 1555), Master of Requests (1590), advocate in the Court of Arches and Judge of Audience in the
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic learned Italian, and made the acquaintance of his fellow-countryman Dr. Griffith, confessor to a nunnery at Milan. Obtaining leave to visit his home in 1607, he made over his Herefordshire property (Pembridge) to his nephew Henry Prichard (6 September), and made several converts among his relatives and neighbours, including his sister, wife of William Parry of Llanover (himself a Catholic), who remained
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician a statue. Subscriptions raised £1,000 and the statue, created by Welsh sculptor James Milo Griffith, was unveiled before a crowd of 5,000 in October 1886. The original site chosen for the statue was, significantly, opposite the Free Library in the Hayes, for which Batchelor campaigned against opposition from the Bute estate, but it has been moved a couple of times since. At the unveiling
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer , but soon found he had been too precipitate in his opposition, for Wynn's hostility meant the disfavour of (the later) archbishop John Williams and the detective reports of Griffith Williams (1587? - 1673), rector of Llanllechid, to whom the bishop sarcastically refers as 'your honest parson Williams.' Before long he adopted quite a different policy by becoming one of Sir John's greatest friends
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician scene or the expression of some important principle which he wished to impress upon the reader's mind. Bebb translated two works from French : Geiriau credadun (1923), Lamennais's Paroles d'un croyant, and Mudandod y môr (1944), Le Silence de la mer, by ' Vercors ', a story of occupied France during World War II. He married Eluned Pierce Roberts of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire, in 1931, and they had
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator (1929), translated by Olwen Roberts, the wife of J.E. Jones. In 1954 he published The Crisis of our Time and other papers, consisting of essays on the state of society, Welsh nationalism, the attitude of the Church in Wales towards Welsh culture, and his own religious experience as a convert from agnosticism to the Christian faith. Bell was a man of great charm and courtesy, who retained his natural

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