Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor upheaval of 1282 sent Anian again to the king's side, where he appears, at Rhuddlan, on 28 July of that year. On the death of Llywelyn he came back, in the company of the king, to his diocese, and was active in the settlement of North Wales. He received privileges in acknowledgment of his help, the return of writs and other legal rights in the lands of the bishopric, licence to make a will, and a share
ANIAN (d. 1266), bishop of St Asaph chapel of Bruera, a dependency of S. Oswald's, Chester. In 1252 he instituted a cleric in a portion of Rhuddlan, upon the presentation of the king, and in 1254 acted similarly upon the presentation of the prince of Wales. When Llywelyn ap Gruffydd over-ran the Middle Country in 1256 his position became difficult; he received the king's protection on 30 December of that year, on condition that he and
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph He was not the immediate successor of Anian I, for in 1267 a certain John, of whom nothing is known, was consecrated to the see. By 5 January 1268 he was dead; on 24 September of that year it was announced that the royal assent had been given to the election of Anian, prior of the Dominican convent of Rhuddlan, as bishop of St Asaph. On 21 October he was consecrated at Southwark by archbishop
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator Born 2 October 1879 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, son of Charles Christopher Bell and Rachel (née Hughes). His maternal grandfather, John Hughes of Rhuddlan, was a Welsh speaker. Bell received his early education at Nottingham High School. In 1897 he won a scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated in Classics. He spent a year at the Universities of Berlin and Halle studing Hellenistic
BLEDDYN ap CYNFYN (d. 1075), prince challenged their power in the battle of Mechain, an encounter in which Bleddyn proved victor and the only survivor of the four. He was now threatened by the advance of the Normans into North Wales; in 1073, Robert of Rhuddlan established himself on the banks of the Clwyd and shortly afterwards surprised Bleddyn in a stealthy attack, in which the Welsh leader lost much booty and narrowly escaped capture
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician Beata Brookes was born on 21 January 1930 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, the daughter of George Brookes, a farmer and property developer, and his wife Gwendoline. She attended Lowther College in Abergele and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. She also won an American State Department scholarship to study politics in the USA. This was followed by a brief visit to Australia to study local
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince northerners and English earls who in 1159 attempted in vain to subdue Rhys ap Gruffydd. He stood at the side of his brother in the great assembly of Welsh chiefs at Corwen in 1165 and aided him in the capture in 1167 of the castles of Rhuddlan and Prestatyn. Cadwaladr survived Owain and died 29 February 1172. He was buried in Bangor cathedral and Gerald of Wales saw in 1188 the double tomb of the two
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp Wales to be buried at Whitchurch, near Denbigh. Clough had hoped to do several things for the benefit of his native land, one of his projects being to make the river Clwyd navigable for small ships as far as Rhuddlan. He knew the famous Dutch scholar and geographer, Abraham Ortelius, and it was he who caused Ortelius to become acquainted with Humphrey Llwyd of Denbigh. It is surmised that he was only
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd and Hales in Shropshire. He seems now to have settled in the Middle Country, with a fine castle at Rhuddlan, admired by Giraldus Cambrensis, who spent a night there, with archbishop Baldwin's company, in the spring of 1188. In 1194 fortune struck him a second blow. After he had been harassed for some time by his energetic young nephew, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, that rising star entered into an alliance
DAFYDD DDU ATHRO HIRADDUG (fl. before 1400), a poet The man whose name is associated with the first bardic grammar (llyfr cerddwriaeth) which we have, i.e. a work dealing with the art of bardism and verse, and containing also an abridgement of the Latin grammar which was used in schools in the Middle Ages. Scarcely anything of him is known, but as Moel Hiraddug is the name of a hill near Rhuddlan, perhaps Thomas Wiliems is right when he says, in
DAVIES, RICHARD (1814 - 1854), secretary of the Church Missionary Society Born at Rhuddlan, son of Robert Davies, at that time curate of Rhuddlan and afterwards (1823-8) of Newmarket, Flintshire, finally perpetual curate of the Welsh Anglican church in Liverpool. In 1841, the son was appointed secretary of the Church Missionary Society and editor of its periodicals. In 1848 he became vicar of Brenchley, Kent, where he died, 6 February 1858.
EDWARDS, PETER (Pedr Alaw; 1854 - 1934), musician Born at Castle Cottage, Rhuddlan, Flintshire, son of John and Elizabeth Edwards. Educated at the Rhuddlan national school, he showed when quite young a fondness for music and learnt the tonic sol-fa system when he was a member of the choir of his chapel. After leaving school he worked in the office of a timber merchant at Rhyl, proceeding thence to similar work in Liverpool; there, at Bootle, he

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