Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Alice Abadam was born in London on 2 January 1856, the seventh and youngest child of Edward Abadam (formerly Adams, 1810-1875) and his wife Louisa (née Taylor, 1828-1886). Alice grew up at Middleton Hall (now the National Botanic Gardens of Wales) which had been bought by her paternal grandfather, Edward Hamlin Adams, in 1824 on his return from Jamaica where the family had had slave-owning
ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader career developed he was commissioned to build a palace for Maharaja Umaid Singh, who himself served as aide-de-campe to the Prince of Wales. His employer, Henry Vaughan Lanchester, whose support brought Abdul-Hamid to Britain, had also built Cardiff City Hall, a jewel of Welsh architecture. And finally, the Second World War had made him relocate to north Wales. Throughout his life then, he would have
ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist chapel, Moriah, Leytonstone, which was a convenient meeting place for the many young Welshmen who flocked to London at that time. Several Welsh societies in London received generous donations from him. He did his utmost to further the Welsh language and was a founder-member of the London Welsh School which opened in September 1961 in temporary premises in St. David's church hall. Later he provided a
ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess Daughter of the gentleman poet, Gruffydd ap Ieuan ap Llewelyn Fychan (c. 1485 - 1553) of Llannerch in Llewenni Fechan, Denbighshire. Her mother was his first wife, Jonet, daughter of Richard ap Howel of Mostyn (died 1540). Alice (or Alice Wen) was born about 1520, and married, about 1540, David Lloyd ap Rees of Vaynol, one of the Lloyds of Wigfair. Her children were John Lloyd (died 1615
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, JAMES (1802 - 1897), dean of S. Davids and antiquary , 1847-70, chancellor and residentiary canon of S. Davids, 1870-8, rural dean of Dewisland, 1875, and dean of S. Davids cathedral, 1878-95. He married Isabella Dorothea, daughter of Peter Rickard Hoare of Kilsey Hall, Kent. He was a good antiquary and a keen member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association; he devoted much time and money to the restoration of S. Davids cathedral, especially the west
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth , London, students in the General Library in 1940 caused accommodation and staffing problems. Trestle tables and 120 chairs were borrowed from the Parish Hall as temporary measures and in response to a request for additional staff, University College, London, agreed to transfer two members of their Library staff to the College. In February 1942 Arthur ap Gwynn left his post as Librarian for National
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales the service. He was moved in 1932 to the Methodist Central Hall in Bargoed and in a short period of time he transformed the institution. Atkin utilised the large chapel and its schoolroom to assist the unemployed by opening the building every day of the week, and he established a shoe repairing workshop, a barber shop, and a kitchen which provided free meals. He converted part of the building as a
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref, Brecknock. He is said to have been educated at Christ College, Brecon, whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford, taking his B.C.L. in 1549, his doctorate in 1554, becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn Hall. He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law, but Strype's conjecture
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic grounding in Greek and the humanities and a knowledge of the Bible which he found useful in his later career. In 1590 he went on to Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College), Oxford, under the tuition of William Prichard, a kinsman of his at Christ Church, later vicar of Abergavenny and Caerwent. Dissatisfied with his progress, his father recalled him in 1592 and sent him to study law under his brother
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton Hall, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette movement. As Rachel became established in London, she spoke alongside the Pankhursts, Annie Kenney and other leading suffragettes at venues such as The London Pavilion, Piccadilly Circus, The Steinway Hall and the Grand Theatre, Manchester. In July 1912, she shared a speaking platform with the suffragist Alice Abadam, also of Carmarthen, at the Hyde Park demonstration where they were both speaking on

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