Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AELHAEARN (fl. 7th century), patron saint credited with healing virtue, but now supplying water to the village of Llanaelhaearn. Aelhaearn's day is 1 November; of his history nothing is known, though the dedications tend to support the statement that he was a follower of Beuno.
ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY (1847 - 1907), archaeologist (Fenton, Pemb., 2nd ed., 150), and married Caroline Romilly - their second son was the antiquary's father. L. B. Allen was born 1 January 1774 and died 28 October 1845. His career is given in Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses
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
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph career. At the time of his elevation, the diocese was, as the outcome of the treaty of Montgomery, entirely dominated by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd. Prince and bishop were, at first, on amicable terms. On 1 May 1269, agreement was reached between them at Mold as to the maintenance of the ancient privileges of the see in the Middle Country. Anian was a party to the settlement between Llywelyn and David
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer King's Cross chapel in London. He married in 1941 Olga Bonnell, daughter of Tom Bonnell, a well known Rhondda singer, and they had one son, Robert. She died in 1978. Trevor Anthony died on 1 August 1984 and his funeral was held in London on 8 August. He was buried with his wife in Mortlake Cemetery.
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen , in February 1700-1, aged 25, and was buried in the Abbey. By a codicil to his will, a few days before his death, he revoked the settlement of his Montgomery estate upon his cousin Catherine, daughter of Owen Anwyl and wife of Sir Griffith Williams, bart., of Marl (see ' Williams of Marl') in favour of his cousins the Owens of Porkington (now Brogyntyn), and devised an annuity of £100 in perpetuity
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Service in Swansea. He resumed his duties on 1 June 1945, having been absent for a period of three years and four months. Mrs E. C. Gwynn, the wife of his brother Llywelyn, was appointed acting Librarian during his absence. The number of staff, thus depleted during the war by one (the Librarian himself, the only male on the staff), was still four in 1945. But student numbers (which was as low as 600
ASAPH (fl. c. 600), reputed founder of the see of St Asaph singled out as his successor and who was accordingly consecrated bishop in his stead, when he returned to Strathclyde. Whatever may underlie this story, it is noteworthy that there is no local commemoration of Cyndeyrn, while Asaph's name is preserved in Llanasa, Pantasa, and Ffynnon Asa, all in northern Flintshire. His festival day is 1 May; the Breviary of Aberdeen has an office for him. Nothing is
ASHLEY, LAURA (1925 - 1985), designer and businesswoman a designer, began. The product was initially distributed locally but, within a few months, demand had increased to such an extent that the business needed a larger base. The removal of the screen and other equipment from the small flat would, undoubtedly, have been very acceptable to Laura following the birth of her first child, Laura Jane, on 1 October 1953. A basement in Cambridge Street was
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales high profile within the Labour Party against Fascism. On 1 November 1935 he stood as a Councillor for the Labour Party and lost as he did the following year in the Victoria Ward, but in November 1936 he entered the Swansea Borough Council for Brynmelyn Ward. Many of the Christian leaders were annoyed, in particular Father J. Cahalane from St Joseph's RC Church who regarded Atkin an atheist. Atkin
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors . Guest and Wilkinson. He also leased some land direct from the earl of Plymouth; on this he erected a blast furnace in addition to that at Cyfarthfa. Three years later (1 July 1780) he acquired the lease of the Hirwaun iron-works, with liberty to raise iron-ore or coal from the common of Hirwaun Wrgan. In 1775 the War of American Independence broke out; this necessitated a great increase in the
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, over from Nant-y-glo and left his nephew in charge of the Nant-y-glo and Beaufort works. Work now commenced in earnest in sinking the Aberaman colliery, and in constructing blast furnaces, etc. By 1 August 1846 the railway was opened, and leased to the Taff Vale Railway from 1 January 1847. By the first week in May 1847, a quantity of iron was puddled for the first time at Aberaman. He promoted the

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