Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist John Wynne and Sir Hugh Myddelton; in another he asks Lloyd to return to him the 'MS. memories of Owen Glendower.' There are references to Barrington in Morris Letters - see the indexes by Hugh Owen - 'a great antiquary and lover of British antiquities' said Lewis Morris of him in one letter (ii, 344); it is obvious also that Barrington was anxious to see the publication of the result of some of the
BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet A native of the countryside around Denbigh, he was possibly related to Maurice Birchinshaw who graduated B.Gramm. in 1511, and B.C.L. in 1515, from Magdalen College, Oxford, and became rector of Denbigh in 1543; he died 1564. In NLW MS 5272C, p. 185, is preserved a letter by William Myddelton to 'his cousin Wilm Birchinsha and Owen Meurig', wherein he advises them to be civil to their tutor. And
BRIDGEMAN, GEORGE THOMAS ORLANDO (1823 - 1895), cleric, antiquary and genealogist Born 21 August 1823, second son of the 2nd earl of Bradford, a descendant of Sir Orlando Bridgeman (see in D.N.B.), keeper of the seal under Charles II; the family were connected by marriage with Shropshire, and with the Myddelton family of Chirk. Educated at Harrow, and Trinity (Cantab.), where he graduated in 1845, he took orders, became rector in Shropshire, and in 1864 received the family
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, wounded at Wem (17-18 October 1643), and was one of the envoys sent by Thomas Myddelton (later 1st baronet,) to negotiate the surrender of Chirk castle on the collapse of Booth's revolt (24 August 1659). Another brother, FRANCIS BROUGHTON, is said to have fought for Parliament. When the Broughton s died out, the Marchwiel estates passed to AQUILA WYKE, of Llwynegryn, Mold, sheriff of Denbighshire in
DAFYDD NANCONWY (fl. 17th century), writer of cywyddau He is said to have been the son of Tomas Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Rhys ap Gronnw ap Meyrick ap Llewelyn ap Richard ap Dafydd of Pwll-y-crochan in ' Llechwedd Isaf ' (i.e. Arllechwedd Isaf), Caernarfonshire His father also was a poet, and he is known to have written a cywydd in 1654. Among the few poems by Dafydd Nanconwy which have survived is a cywydd to Captain William Myddelton of Gwaenynog, who
DOLBEN family Segrwyd, , vii, 543, ix, 1845), others playing their part in the civic life of Ruthin (W. M. Myddelton, Chirk Castle Accounts, 1666-1753; N.L.W. Brogyntyn MSS., letter 100); while DAVID DOLBEN (c. 1686 - c. 1749), son of Hugh Dolben of Llangynhafal, after education at Ruthin and at Magdalene, Cambridge, held several Denbighshire livings and became a canon of Bangor (A. I. Pryce, Diocese of Bangor Through Three
EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, king he was rounded up by Parliamentary forces at Bangor Iscoed on 16 February 1643, but released on exchange, and in 1646 he became steward of Chirkland under Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586 - 1666). This gave him influence with the victorious party, which made him a somewhat reluctant magistrate and commissioner of taxes and of the militia (1648) for his county; he also petitioned successfully (3
EDWARDS family Cilhendre, Plas Yolyn, 2nd Sir Thomas Myddelton, was one of the civilian envoys deputed by Thomas Mytton to negotiate the surrender of Anglesey (May - June 1646) and Harlech (16 March 1647), becoming governor of Wrexham in 1647. His namesake, who signed the loyal declaration of the Salop gentry in 1642 and was declared a delinquent in 1650, was almost certainly his second cousin of Shrewsbury, sheriff of Salop 1644 and
EDWARDS family Stansty, sister MARGARET (died 1651), an ardent disciple of Morgan Llwyd, married John Jones (1597? - 1660) the regicide, whose son John was a friendly correspondent of the archdeacon. Another sister, CATHERINE, married Watkin Kyffin, through whom her brother Jonathan tried in vain, on attaining his Fellowship, to induce the 2nd Sir Thomas Myddelton (to whom Kyffin was agent at Chirk) to send his son to Jesus
EDWARDS family Chirkland, as magistrate was impugned - much was made of his recusant background. His outward conformity ceased when, after Gunpowder Plot, new recusancy laws imposed a sacramental test and a new oath of allegiance. He was attainted and fined two-thirds of his estate under the Act (1614), and next year the elder Sir T. Myddelton, whose son's conduct as lord of Chirkland and owner of Chirk castle had been
ELLICE, ROBERT, Royalist soldier January 1643 (on royal orders) he seized Chirk castle, the seat of the Roundhead Sir Thomas Myddelton and commanded 600 Welsh Royalist infantry at Middlewich, Cheshire (March 1643), where they were defeated and Ellice captured. Released in September 1643, he was given command for the king over Denbighshire and Flintshire with 1,200 men, at the head of whom he took part in operations round Wem (March
HERBERT family Montgomery, Parke, Blackhall, Dolguog, Cherbury, Aston, daughter of Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586 - 1666) and was reconciled to the Protectorate (reputedly through Philip Jones (1617 - 1673), serving on the Montgomeryshire assessment committee (1657) but afterwards becoming involved in Booth's rebellion (1659). After the Restoration he became custos rotulorum of Montgomeryshire (1660-78) and Denbighshire (1666-78), but before the end of his life fell foul of the

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