Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, he conveyed the Aberaman estate with the collieries, ironworks, brick-works, private railway, etc., to the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co., at an aggregate price of £123,500. By 1869-70 the Nant-y-glo and Beaufort works had been disposed of. Crawshay Bailey retired to Llanfoist House, where he died 9 January 1872, leaving an only son and heir, CRAWSHAY BAILEY II, of Maindiff Court (1821 - 1887), who
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author , Llechdwnni a Mwdlwscwm (1955). The excerpts which he transcribed from the Trefeca diaries appeared in Howell Harris, reformer and soldier (1958); Howell Harris's visits to London (1960); and Howell Harris's visits to Pembrokeshire (which was published by his widow in 1966). These volumes are of particular value to those seeking information on the life and career of the reformer from Trefeca. He died 10
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician councillor. In 1958 he resigned, together with Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Enoch Powell, a fellow minister at the Treasury, following a dispute over policy. He never held ministerial office again, partly due to the personal animosity between him and Harold Macmillan (whom he had notably attacked in the infamous Profumo debate), and to his failing eyesight. He was on all sides
BLOOM, MILBOURN (d. 1766), Independent minister year he parted with Methodism (Trevecka letter 973, and another letter printed in H. J. Hughes, Life of Howell Harris, 270), and decided to enter the Independent ministry, being admitted c. 13 September member of Pant Teg church, then under Christmas Samuel. There are references to him, throughout 1744, in Thomas Morgan's diary (NLW MS 5456A). On 26 September 1745 (Cilgwyn church book, in Cofiadur
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian such as (a) Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, co. Gloucester… 1889; (b) The Diary of Walter Powell, 1907; (c) Acts of the Bishop of Llandaff, 1908; (d) Llyfr Baglan, 1910; (e) (ed.) Hanes Llanffwyst by Thomas Evan Watkins, Eiddil Ifor, 1922; (f) A Dissertation on Three Books, 1923; (g) A History of the Free
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister religious matter. Among them may be noted The Vicar of Llandovery, 1821, 1830, an English version of the works of Rhys Prichard; Memoirs of the Life of Howell Harris, 1824; and Memoirs of Benjamin Evans (one of his predecessors at Albany), 1826.
CLARK family, printers and publishers William Howell, Chepstow. For some years he had a book-selling shop in Cardiff also. In August 1875 he began to publish a monthly, The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record, which continued to appear until the end of 1878. The Usk business was continued by his daughter, ELIZA BLANCHE CLARK. WILLIAM HENRY CLARK, eldest son of J. H. Clark, left Usk in 1866 for Brecon, where he founded The Brecon County
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian established himself at Usk, thus displaying moderation in his views upon tithe. His moderation was equally in evidence when Vavasor Powell was impelled by the failure of the ' Parliament of Saints ' to publish the petition A Word for God and so to manifest his opposition to Cromwell. Cradoc came into the open as the principal supporter of Cromwell in Wales, and a loyal petition, The Humble Representation
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist scholarship to the County School in Tregaron, and her family sacrificed a great deal to support her academic abilities. At the County School, she was among a group of notable talents, including Ambrose Bebb and Kitchener Davies, who came under the influence of the charismatic history teacher S. M. Powell. Although English was the language of the majority of lessons, Powell believed in the importance of
DAVIES, DANIEL (1756 - 1837), Baptist minister Born 24 April 1756 at Bwlchmelyn, Cenarth, Carmarthenshire. After working for some time on local farms he went to Conwil, where he was employed by Howell Howells, a tanner. At the age of 15 he became a weaver and worked at this craft in various factories at Conwil, Ffynnonhenry (where he was baptized), and Eglwyswrw. It was at Ffynnonhenry that he began to preach, in 1780. In 1782 he married and
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. At Brighton, he suffered much tribulation, in spite of which he produced a flow of books and pamphlets and a more substantial work, Vavasor Powell, 1896. Returning to Wales in 1908 as pastor of Crane Street, Pontypool, he finally (1909) settled down to his last pastorate, at Penarth, with which his name is commonly associated. He threw himself vigorously into the

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