Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Vaughan.
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
ALLEN, ROBERT (1847 - 1927), Baptist minister
AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Born 1 August 1813 at Bangor, the only son of John and Elizabeth Ambrose. His great grandfather John Ambrose, a bootmaker, came from Ireland to Holyhead in 1715; one of his sons, Robert, became the second minister of the Baptist congregation at Bangor. Robert Ambrose had two sons - Robert, father of the Rev. W. R. Ambrose of Tal-y-sarn, and John (father of Emrys) - and a daughter (mother of John
AMBROSE, WILLIAM ROBERT (1832 - 1878), Baptist minister and antiquary Born 19 January 1832, at Galltraeth (Bryncroes, Llŷn), son of the Rev. Robert Ambrose (on whom see Spinther, iii, 367) - he was thus cousin to the poet William Ambrose. He was brought up as a tailor, and worked at his craft at Caernarvon, Liverpool, Bangor, Portmadoc, and Tal-y-sarn.In 1856 (at Bangor) he received baptism, and began preaching; and during the last years of his life was a paid
ANARAWD ap RHODRI (d. 916), prince against this view. It was fully discussed and controverted by Robert Vaughan of Hengwrt in British Antiquities Revived (Oxford, 1662; reprinted, Bala, 1834).
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer adjudicators, the singer Henry Plunket Greene, to pursue a professional career. His tutor Gwilym R. Jones organised a local appeal fund to support a course of study in London, and Anthony studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1935 to 1939, under the tutelage of Norman Allin. He held the George Mence Smith scholarship, and at the end of his course won the Robert Radford Memorial Prize and the Rutson
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen The Anwyl s of Park, Llanfrothen, Meironnydd, derived from Robert ap Morris of Park (died 1576), fourth son of Morris ap John ap Meredydd of Rhiwaedog, whose exploits are recorded in the The history of the Gwydir family by Sir John Wynn. The younger sons of Robert ap Morris took the surname Roberts: John, of Vanner, being father of David, rector of Llanbedrog, chaplain to the earl of Warwick
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school, Wrexham, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised in
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge Born 28 November 1867, in Brisbane, Australia, eldest son of Robert Travers Atkin of Fernhill, co. Cork, a member of the Queensland senate. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was made hon. Fellow in 1924. He was called to the Bar in Grays Inn, 1891, becoming a Bencher in 1906, and K.C. serving on the South Wales and Chester circuit, and building up a
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, THOMAS (1808 - 1867), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister district meeting. On 6 April 1831 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Gwen Williams of Ruthin. He died at Rhyl on 16 November 1867. Thomas Aubrey is one of the outstanding figures in Welsh Wesleyan Methodist history. He was first and foremost an eloquent and successful preacher, but he was hardly less successful as an administrator, despite the slight interest he had taken in circuit

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