Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor Born 20 July 1874, son of Thomas and Dinah Bowen of Treorchy, Glamorganshire, elder brother of Ben Bowen and Thomas (Orchwy) Bowen (father of the archdruid Geraint Bowen and the poet Euros Bowen), and of the mother of Sir Ben Bowen Thomas. Both parents had moved from Carmarthenshire to the coal industry in the Rhondda. The family's Welsh culture was safeguarded and fostered by the chapel life in
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian David's in Brecon. His remains were cremated in Bradford on the day of his funeral. In his obituary which appeared in the Evening Post on the 15 July and in the Methodist Recorder and Y Tyst on the 22 July the Reverend Ivor Thomas Rees, Swansea, described David Bowen as a 'great Christian' and 'a peace-loving mediator'. David (or Dave as he liked to be called) was a most unassuming person, a convinced
BOWEN, EMRYS GEORGE (1900 - 1983), geographer Emrys Bowen, or EGB as he was widely known, was born on 28 December 1900 at Spilman Street in Carmarthen, the elder child of Thomas and Elizabeth Bowen. His father, a former tinplate worker, was an insurance agent. He was educated at Pentre-poeth Council School and at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen. After a year as an assistant teacher in the Model and Practising School in Carmarthen
BOWEN, JOHN (1815 - 1859), bishop of Sierra Leone Son of Capt. Thomas Bowen of the Court, Llanllawer, near Fishguard (Fenton, Pembrokeshire, 1903 edition, 312), was born 21 November 1815. His father's family (originally from Haverfordwest) were landowners living at Leweston in Camrose and at Manorowen. His parents removed from the Court to Stonehall, and then in 1830 to Johnston Hall. In 1847 he inherited Milton, an estate in the parish of Carew
BOWEN, THOMAS (1756 - 1827), Independent minister
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. Born at Risca, Monmouth, 23 September 1865, son of Thomas and Ann Brace; ed. at Risca board school. When he was 12 years of age he began to earn his living as a collier at Risca colliery, and as he grew older he took a keen interest in labour problems. In 1890 he married Nellie, daughter of William and Harriet Humphreys of Cwmcarn, Monmouth. In the same year he was appointed miners' agent for the
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer particularly in Tir Iarll. Iolo maintained that it was in Bradford's manuscripts that he had obtained details about many of those things which we now know were forged by Iolo himself. It is, therefore, essential that all that was written and printed about Bradford in the 19th century should be discounted. According to the diary of William Thomas (1727 - 1795), Bradford was buried 6 June 1785. The Bradford
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian such as (a) Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, co. Gloucester… 1889; (b) The Diary of Walter Powell, 1907; (c) Acts of the Bishop of Llandaff, 1908; (d) Llyfr Baglan, 1910; (e) (ed.) Hanes Llanffwyst by Thomas Evan Watkins, Eiddil Ifor, 1922; (f) A Dissertation on Three Books, 1923; (g) A History of the Free
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer Born Cesail Graig, Pwll, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 23 February 1875, son of John and Mary Brazell. He was reared in a musical family; his father (a collier) was fond of music, and two of his brothers, John and Thomas, were fairly well known musicians - John a tenor soloist, and Thomas a choir conductor and a precentor at the Independent chapel in Pwll. David and John went on a tour in the United
BRERETON, JANE (1685 - 1740), poetess She was the daughter of Thomas and Anne Hughes, Bryn Griffith, near Mold. In 1711 she married Thomas Brereton (1691 - 1722), one of the minor English dramatists. On the death of her husband in 1722 she is said to have settled in Wrexham where she died 7 August 1740 and was survived by two daughters. Showing an aptitude for writing English verse she became a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine
BRERETON, OWEN SALUSBURY (1715 - 1798), antiquary Son of Thomas Brereton of Flintshire; his mother was Catherine, daughter of Salusbury Lloyd. His career and work are fully described in the D.N.B.
BRIDGEMAN, GEORGE THOMAS ORLANDO (1823 - 1895), cleric, antiquary and genealogist

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