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  • 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
  • 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).
  • BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist Ralph Lodge, Mrs. Gilbert, and Mrs. Rawlins, a patent enabling her to search for metals on certain Crown lands lying between Dolgelley and Llanuwchllyn, she left England for the purpose of implementing the patent. She was doomed to be disappointed, had little help from her partners, and, being obliged to relinquish her prospecting, lived at Hengwrt from 1771 to 1778 as secretary to Hugh Vaughan, great
  • BARHAM family Trecŵn, On 1 July 1754 at Cheltenham, Dorothea, fourth daughter of John Vaughan of Trecŵn and Joan Corbet his wife, married JOSEPH FOSTER -BARHAM, son of Colonel John Foster (1681 - 1731), of Egham House, Surrey, and Jamaica. He was born 16 December 1729 in Jamaica, where the family had large estates which he inherited. He assumed the surname of his step-father, Dr. Henry Barham, in 1750, and died in
  • BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Llanedi, 1606-13, and was nominated bishop of Bangor in 1616. In 1611, most probably, appeared the first edition of his Practice of Piety, a book of devotion that became exceedingly popular; the 11th ed. appeared in 1619, the 71st in 1792; the 1st Welsh ed., translated by Rowland Vaughan of Caergai, came out in 1630 - Yr Ymarfer o Dduwioldeb - followed by five more editions (up to 1730). He rather
  • BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist The youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Vaughan, Derllys Court, Carmarthenshire. She was christened 30 October 1698 at Merthyr church by Thomas Thomas, the rector. Noted as patron of the Welsh circulating schools, she must have known Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, from girlhood, as her father was organizer of S.P.C.K. schools in Carmarthenshire from 1700 to 1722 and Griffith Jones was in charge
  • BEVAN, EVAN (1803 - 1866), poet Son of William and Gwenllian Bevan, born at Llangynwyd, Glamorganshire. Coming from a poor family, he was not taught any specific trade and began working as a casual farm labourer. When he was about 22-24 years of age he moved to Ystradfellte, Brecknock, where he married Ann, daughter of Thomas David Ifan, butcher. He moved subsequently to Pont Neath Vaughan, where he died October 1866. Under the
  • BEVAN, LLEWELYN DAVID (1842 - 1918), Independent minister Whitefield's Tabernacle, London. After a pastorate (1876-82) in New York, he returned to minister (1882-6) at Highbury Quadrant, but then removed to Collins Street, Melbourne, spending the rest of his life in Australia : 1886-1910 at Melbourne, and 1910-18 as principal of Parkin Independent College, Adelaide. He was married and had five children. He died 9 August 1918. PENRY VAUGHAN BEVAN (1876 - 1913
  • BEVAN, PERCY VAUGHAN (1876 - 1913), professor of physics - see BEVAN, LLEWELYN DAVID
  • BEYNON, THOMAS (1744 - 1835), archdeacon of Cardigan and patron of eisteddfodau and Welsh literature Cymreigyddion Society of Carmarthen for many years and was an influential member of the Carmarthen eisteddfod committee in 1819. He delighted in the Welsh language and literature, and many bards and writers dedicated books to him, more especially Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion). There are strong reasons for believing that the Vaughan family of Golden Grove were his patrons. He lived at Llandilo from
  • BLIGH, STANLEY PRICE MORGAN (1870 - 1949), landowner and author exchange poems with one another. For Bligh the pursuits of the country gentry were a waste of time; to them he was a crank or hermit, but for people like Charles Morgan and his wife, Hilda Vaughan, conversation with him was most inspiring. He had the rare gift of nurturing the minds of others. He was particularly interested in the philosophy of Plotinus. He had freed himself from a large number of social