Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABLETT, NOAH (1883 - 1935), miner and Trade Union leader Born at Porth, Rhondda, 4 October 1883, son of John and Jane Ablett. As a miner, he went for a period to the Central Labour College; he then became a checkweigher at Maerdy. He was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the South Wales Miners' Federation in January 1911, and subsequently a member of the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. In 1918 he was appointed a
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Arthur ap Gwynn, born 4 November 1902, was the second of the three children of Thomas Gwynn Jones, the distinguished poet, and Margaret Jane Jones; Eluned was the eldest and Llywelyn the youngest. Arthur ap Gwynn was born in Caernarfon when his father was working on the papers, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Papur Pawb and the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald. The family moved to Denbigh in 1906, Mold in 1907 and
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school, Wrexham, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised in
AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN (1888 - 1969), politician, local historian and author married in 1911, and he and his wife Elizabeth Jane had two sons and three daughters. His wife died in April 1969 and he died 7 May 1969.
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the three responsible for the fire. In 1940, he married Ruth Byass who supported him loyally in all his many activities and enterprises. They had four children, Jane born in 1941, Michael in 1942, Richard in 1946 and Robert in 1951. In September 1941 the now Squadron Leader Barrett was posted to Linton, near York to the first Halifax squadron only to be shot down on his first flight over Germany. He
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player county tennis player with whom he had one son James 'Jamie' Edward (1974) and a daughter Amanda Jane (1979). In 1972 Battrick was caught up in the amateur / professional controversy that split the tennis world after he had turned professional and joined the circuit of Texan millionaire and sports promoter Lamar Hunt. But once that dispute was finally resolved Battrick returned to play at Wimbledon and
BENNETT, RICHARD (1860 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist historian Born 21 September 1860, at Hendre, Cwm Pennant, Llanbrynmair, son of Edward Bennett, farmer, and his wife Jane (Richards), who was of the same stock as Richard Lumley. He had only a primary education, and lived on his native farm till 1914, when he retired (owing to deafness) to Bangor, and afterwards to Caersws, where he died 13 August 1937, unmarried. Bennett had early shown a taste for
BERTIL, PRINCESS LILIAN (DUCHESS OF HALLAND), (1915 - 2013) Princess Lilian, wife of Prince Bertil of Sweden, was born Lillian May Davies, in her grandparents' home 3 Garden Street, Swansea on 30 August 1915, a month or two after her parents' marriage. Her father was William John Davies (1893-1956) and her mother was Gladys Mary (Curran) (c.1895-1942), daughter of William Curran, labourer at the fuel works, and his wife, Jane. W. J. Davies served in the
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician He was a member of a Swansea family, and (according to Morris Letters, ii, 336) was related to Arthur Bevan. A William Bevan, a Quaker of Swansea, was imprisoned in 1658, and died in 1701, aged 74. His son, Silvanus Bevan (1661 - 1725), married Jane Phillips of Swansea in 1685, and had several sons, two of whom moved to London. The elder, SILVANUS BEVAN, is the subject of this notice. He set up a
BLACKWELL, HENRY (1851 - 1928), bookbinder and bookseller, bibliographer and biographer the Welsh Language published in the United States'), Y Drych, The Druid, The Cambrian, 1882, and 1884 (a catalogue of his library of books in the English language relating to Wales and the Welsh), and Old Brecknock Chips, 1886 ('Brecknockshire authors and books printed in Brecknockshire'). He had proposed to issue in 1886 an American edition of Jane Williams: A History of Wales… (London, 1869
BOOTH, FLORENCE ELEANOR (1861 - 1957), Salvationist and social reformer Florence Booth was born on 12 September 1861 in Blaina, Monmouthshire, the eldest of the four children of Dr Isabell Hawker Soper (1833-1907) and his wife Jane Eleanor (née Levick, 1831-1870). Dr Soper, who was a native of Plymouth, was employed by the local iron works and collieries as a physician and surgeon, and his wife was the daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. Florence was a gifted musician
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary gained general confidence by his ability, integrity, and judicial temper. David Lloyd George, as a beginner in his office, owed much to his kindness. In politics he was a Liberal, in religion a Churchman. He married in 1863 Margaret Jane, daughter of Lewis Williams of Fron Wnion, Dolgelley, sheriff of his county in 1865. From an early age, Breese developed a strong interest in local antiquities. Many

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