Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights Alice Abadam was born in London on 2 January 1856, the seventh and youngest child of Edward Abadam (formerly Adams, 1810-1875) and his wife Louisa (née Taylor, 1828-1886). Alice grew up at Middleton Hall (now the National Botanic Gardens of Wales) which had been bought by her paternal grandfather, Edward Hamlin Adams, in 1824 on his return from Jamaica where the family had had slave-owning
ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader become London Central Mosque and East London Mosque (though his plans were never used). In 1940, Abdul-Hamid relocated to Rhyl in north Wales as an employee of the Ministry of Works (likely a wartime commission). The change in circumstances was embraced by Abdul-Hamid. He took an active part in the civic life of Rhyl, organizing charity events for the Red Cross and St John Prisoner of War Fund. He was
ABEL, JOHN (1770 - 1819), Welsh Independent minister Unitarian Wright, who visited Wales in 1816, and 'he was considered to be an Arian' who lent his chapel willingly to Wright. He died on 25th June 1819.
ABLETT, NOAH (1883 - 1935), miner and Trade Union leader Born at Porth, Rhondda, 4 October 1883, son of John and Jane Ablett. As a miner, he went for a period to the Central Labour College; he then became a checkweigher at Maerdy. He was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the South Wales Miners' Federation in January 1911, and subsequently a member of the executive of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain. In 1918 he was appointed a
ABRAHAM, WILLIAM (Mabon; 1842 - 1922), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners' Federation . He was the miners' chairman of the Joint Sliding Scale Association until it was terminated in 1903. From 1892 to 1898 the South Wales miners did not work on the first Monday of each month, a scheme to limit output in order to maintain wages [it also gave opportunities for holding miners' meetings]. This was known as 'Mabon's Monday.' In 1885 he was elected M.P. for the Rhondda division, the first
ADAM (d. 1181), bishop of St Asaph writers, both ancient and modern, to identify him with the well-known schoolman, Adam du Petit Pont, also a canon of Paris and in his day a prominent theologian and disputant. But this cannot be reconciled with the account given by Gerald of Wales of the friendship between him and the bishop, when, as he says, they were fellow students in Paris, not well-to-do and in a private station, for the elder
ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer by his profession. At Bruges, he gave an ear to the overtures of Northumberland, then plotting against the king, but, luckily for his future, did not go so far as to involve himself in the earl's overthrow. In 1408, he made for Wales, landing at Barmouth, and hoping, as his chronicle avers, to get to the lordship of Powis, then held by Edward Charlton, whose first wife's dower included Usk. Whether
ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine College, Aberystwyth, where he graduated (B.A. Lond.) in 1877. In 1878 he was ordained minister of Hawen and Bryngwenith, Cardiganshire, and it was then that he first demonstrated his courage and intellectual independence. Before his time, Wales had not experienced that revolution in religious doctrine which, having its inception in Germany, had slowly made its way to England. Adams was the prophet of
ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert . He published Science of Mining (London, 1870), together with a paper on the geological features of the South Wales coalfield. Adams removed to Cardiff in February 1865 and commenced business as colliery agent and mining engineer. He took an interest in the Cardiff Free Library and supplied it with a valuable collection of fossils, particularly those of the South Wales coal measures. He was one of
AFAN (fl. early 6th century), patron saint He is described as the son of Cedig ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig, and is associated, as ' Afan Buellt,' with the cantref of the name in Mid Wales. Here are two of his churches, viz. Llanafan-fawr and Llanafan-fach; the third is Llanafan in the valley of the Ystwyth. An inscription of c. 1300 at Llanafan-fawr runs: 'Hic iacet sanctus Avanus Episcopus'; from this it has been inferred that he ruled
AIDAN (fl. 6th century), saint Known also as Aidus, Maidoc, and Madoc. His 'Life,' as preserved in Cotton. Vesp. MS. A. xiv at the British Museum and as printed in Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, reveals Aidan as a saint connected chiefly with Ireland. His youth was, however, spent in south-west Wales, where he was a pupil of S. David, and where his name has been preserved in church appellations and place-names. Traditionally close
AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader Bay during this period meant that the mosque ceased to be located on Peel Street and instead now lies on Maria Street. Comparison of maps between these periods shows that the mosque remains largely, though not exactly, in the same area as where it was founded. Noor al-Islam is the first recorded purpose-built mosque in Wales, and while not the first mosque in Britain, it was amongst the earliest

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