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  • ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights the cult of the Virgin Mary which sustained her in the belief that 'male is a temporary agent, she is the eternal principle' and also that 'woman alone is God-like, she alone creates'. She was evidently motivated by her faith and her notes indicate that she was looking for a clear purpose in life. One entry in her notebooks, dated January 1896, reflects on this search, which she interprets as her
  • ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation Born 14 June 1842, at Cwmafan, fourth son of Thomas and Mary Abraham, he was educated at Cwmafan National School, became a tinplater and then a miner, commencing as a 'door boy.' In 1870 he was elected a miners' agent and played a prominent part in the struggle which led to the agreement for drawing up a sliding scale of wages in the coalfields in relation to prices and profits in December 1875
  • ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert Born at Pen-y-cae, Ebbw Vale, 10 October 1813, son of John and Mary Adams. The father was a working collier at the time but a man of remarkable skill in that vocation; later he became mineral agent for Charles Lloyd Harford & Co. William was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. In May 1828 he was apprenticed to Charles Lloyd Harford and in the course of time he became expert in his own branch
  • ALLGOOD family workmanship, employing his daughter Mary and two Midland artists, Anne and Hannah Walker, as painters. William I disappeared mysteriously in London in 1811, and the management of the works, on a smaller scale, devolved upon his widow MARY ALLGOOD I (1760 - 1822), with the assistance of their daughter MARY II (1785 - 1848, already mentioned) and of John Hughes (nephew of Thomas Hughes) (1740 - 1828), who
  • ANIAN (d. 1266), bishop of St Asaph royal mandate been put into possession of the lands of the see. Within two months he had been consecrated by Walter of Worcester, Richard of Bangor, and Richard of Meath. According to the chronicle of Wigmore (Rylands Library MS. 1090), this took place at Leominster. On 10 July 1250, Anian granted an indulgence to penitents visiting the altar of S. Mary and S. Edmund, which he had consecrated in the
  • ANTHONY, DAVID BRYNMOR (1886 - 1966), school teacher and academic administrator Born 28 October 1886 at Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, the second son of John Gwendraeth Anthony and Mary (née Harris), his wife. The father was a provision merchant, general draper and outfitter at Paris House, Kidwelly. David Brynmor attended the local Castle School before going to the county intermediate school at Llanelli. Entering University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in October 1905 he
  • ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge James Richard Atkin was born on 28 November 1867 in Brisbane, Australia, the eldest of three sons of Robert Travers Atkin (1841-1872) of Fernhill, co. Cork, a journalist and member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Ruck, 1842-1920) of Merionethshire, Wales. His parents had recently emigrated to Australia, but his father died young in 1872. By that time
  • 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
  • BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors parish of Workington; he also held, in partnership, a vast estate in the province of Virginia, in the American Colonies. He was considered to be one of the wealthiest men in Britain at that time. Bacon had married Elizabeth Richardson, but their only son had died in 1770, aged 12. He had, however, five natural children by Mary Bushby, of Gloucestershire, all of them minors in 1786 - Anthony, Thomas
  • BAILEY family Glanusk Park, , Joseph set about purchasing estates in Brecknock, Radnorshire, Herefordshire, Glamorgan, etc. Among them was that of Glanusk Park, where he lived for the rest of his life, having in 1830 retired from personal direction of the works. His brother Crawshay Bailey now had the responsibility of management. On 19 August 1830 Joseph married, as his second wife, Mary Ann, daughter of J. T. H. Hopper of Wilton
  • BARHAM family Trecŵn, Caroline Gertrude Foster-Barham who married the Rev. Sanderson Robins (died 1862), rector of Shaftesbury. On succeeding to the estates he took the name of Barham and resided at Trecŵn. He held the rank of captain in the Queen's 60th Rifles, married (1868) Mary Agnes Cook at Montreal, and died 8 December 1926.
  • BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Born in London, the son of Thomas Barrett and a Welsh mother (Mary Lewis) from Dinas Mawddwy, at which place the family was brought up. The father was a skilled violin player. William Barrett was given violin lessons when he was quite young; he also learned to play the flute. He was apprenticed to a merchant in Old Change, S. Paul's, London. He received further instruction on the flute from