Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
ADAM (d. 1181), bishop of St Asaph Lateran Council of 1179, where he defended his late master, Peter Lombard, against Walter of S. Victor. He died at Osney abbey in 1181.
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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
ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY (1847 - 1907), archaeologist the Inner Temple), he chose, after education at Rugby and King's College, London, to become a civil engineer, in which capacity he was engaged as apprentice on Merseyside, as engineer for Baron de Reuter's Persian railway scheme, and as supervisor of dock construction at Leith, and Boston, Lincolnshire. But at an early age he was attracted to the study of archaeology; a contribution to Archæologia
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph authority in the region of Gorddwr, which lay along the right bank of the Severn from Montgomery to Alberbury. He was emboldened to put forward this claim by the success of Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn in 1263 in annexing this territory to southern Powys. Its recovery by Peter Corbet in 1276 did not daunt Anian; he carried on the strife for years, until at last bishop Swinfield won a final victory in 1288. He
ANTHONY, DAVID BRYNMOR (1886 - 1966), school teacher and academic administrator graduated in 1908 with a class I in French and Romance philology, his studies including also history and Latin. From October 1908 until January 1910 he taught at the Collège de Garçons, Cambrai, France, but with the help of a University of Wales postgraduate studentship he was able to leave his post and continue his studies at the Sorbonne and the Bibliothèque Nationale. In June 1910 he was awarded the
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer recordings (including another Messiah) conducted by Sargent. He performed and adjudicated at the National Eisteddfod on numerous occasions, and at the Newtown National Eisteddfod in 1965 took the part of Christ in the oratorio St Peter by Daniel Jones. Illness forced him to retire early from the concert platform, and he ran a hotel in London for some years. His brother was Cyril Anthony, the organist of
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 'T. Gwynn Jones' (Yr Efrydydd, I (1950)), 'Thomas Gwynn Jones a David de Lloyd,' (Y Traethodydd, Ionawr 1971), 'I Aberystwyth Draw' (Taliesin, 24 (1972)). In 1950 he published jointly with his father his Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg - Cymraeg (Caerdydd: Hughes a'i Fab a'r Educational Publishing Company), a revised edition of which appeared in 1953. In Taliesin, 16 (Nadolig, 1969, pp. 120-5, in his
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies Arthur, although it was not the only source for later writers: there were several translations of it into Welsh and many 'Bruts' - in prose and verse - in the vernacular languages were based upon it. The authenticity of Geoffrey's story was questioned by William of Newburgh and Giraldus Cambrensis, but they were exceptions. In successive works (by Wace, Chrétien de Troyes, the unknown authors of
AURELIUS CANINUS (fl. 540), prince He is the second of the five contemporary British princes whom Gildas attacks in the De Excidio, the 'Lion's Whelp' of his group of wild beasts. No indication is given of the region in which he bore rule, but his position in the list suggests that it was perhaps; the Severn Valley. The name Aurelius points to Romanized ancestry; he may have belonged to the degenerate offspring of Ambrosius
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic in 1636, some of them remaining current in his Order as late as the 19th century. Lives of him were written by his companion Fr. Leander Prichard (1643, repub. Cath. Rec. Soc., xxxiii), by Frs. Peter Salvin and Serenus Cressy (repub. 1932), and by abbot J. N. Sweeney (1861). He has been described as 'a striking, if not a unique, figure in the history of post-Reformation English Catholicism' (abbot

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