Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN (1929 - 1997), footballer size bronze statue of him by sculptor Michael Field (born 1964) was unveiled outside the South Stand which was commissioned by the club's supporters. Some of the more superstitious supporters are in the habit of tapping Allchurch's boot as a good luck talisman before games. Allchurch was also inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame, Manchester, in 2015. A shy and modest man, his
ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY (1847 - 1907), archaeologist , 1903); Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times, 1904. In his special field, Allen became a leading authority, and Archæologia Cambrensis benefited largely during his editorship from the study which he and Sir John Rhŷs bestowed upon the early inscribed stones of Wales. At the annual meetings he was a welcome commentator upon antiquities visited; a certain hastiness of temper was forgiven by those who
ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED (1886 - 1953), agricultural economist agricultural economics in Great Britain. He returned to Oxford as director of the Institute of Research in Agricultural Economics in 1946 and held the post until he retired in 1952. Ashby was a prominent figure in a small group who pioneered agricultural economics as a separate area of study. During the years he spent at Aberystwyth he had an opportunity to reveal his talent in this field; he gave strong
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge disestablishment (he gave legal advice on the drafting of the Church's new constitution). In 1938, on the other hand, he entered into the serious dispute with the Archbishop of Wales - Dr Charles Green - and the other Welsh bishops over the content of the pastoral letters issued by them about the illegality of solemnising the second marriages of those members of the Church who were divorced (a side effect of the
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales through the News of the World. In the bitter winter of 1947 his chapel became a refuge for dozens of men who would otherwise have perished. He visited weekly, every Friday, the public houses of Swansea to collect money to enable poor children from Swansea to enjoy Guy Fawkes night and to be taken by him to the circus. Atkin could not be content within any movement or organisation. He was a maverick, an
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Court of Canterbury (c. 1592), including many important cases in ecclesiastical, international, constitutional, and maritime law, and a number of special commissions with a political bearing. In the ecclesiastical field he threw the weight of his learning into the drive against Puritan and Brownist opinions in Church and university (1587-90), and took part in the condemnation of his distant kinsman
AURELIUS CANINUS (fl. 540), prince Aurelianus stigmatized earlier in the work. 'Caninus' may have been a jest of the author at the expense of the prince's Celtic name. Aurelius is held up to scorn as a man of unclean life, a murderer, a lover of civil war and plunder. His relatives are all dead and he stands alone, like a dry tree in an open field. The notice ends with a stern call to repentance. In the deft hands of Geoffrey of Monmouth
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer his knighthood in the resignation honours in 1976. For his part, Baker starred in Labour Party campaign broadcasts and was an implacable opponent of Welsh nationalism, which he thought 'foolish and misguided'. Post-war Britain was not short of working-class Welsh actors who rose to the top of their profession, but in a crowded field Stanley Baker more than held his own. Together with his friends
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist his priceless field notes were lost as the prisoners were moved westwards away from the advancing Russians across Germany towards the end of the war. Following his release, and now a Wing Commander, a career in the peace-time RAF did not appeal, and his choice of a career was a direct consequence of his prisoner-of-war experience when natural history had lightened the darkness of those long years
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette behalf of the Cymric Suffrage Union. During the same month, Rachel and the Ranee of Sarawak, Margaret Brooke, conducted a series of open-air meetings in Hertfordshire. Although there are few reports of the content of her speeches, Rachel focused on the general issues surrounding the cause of votes for women and on the status of imprisoned suffragettes, calling for them to be treated as political
BARTRUM, PETER CLEMENT (1907 - 2008), scholar of Welsh genealogy . Litt. by the University of Wales in 1988. Apart from genealogy and legend his interests included mathematical problems, and as well as articles on meteorological subjects he published papers on relativity and the Null electromagnetic field, including a paper entitled 'Rotation in General Relativity with Applications to the Case of a Rotating Particle', published by the Royal Society. He was a keen
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure his parliamentary career, he took a more active part in the public life of Montgomeryshire. He was President of the Montgomeryshire Conservative Association and found himself in the unusual role of defusing a revolt within the Association over the Executive's decision not to field a candidate against Clement Davies at the 1951 general election. He was appointed High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire in

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