Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AIDAN (fl. 6th century), saint ' Aidan (Maidoc) is stated to have been present at that saint's altercation with king Arthur. S. Aidan is commemorated on 31 January in all the Irish martyrologies.
AMBROSE, WILLIAM (Emrys; 1813 - 1873), Independent minister, poet, and littérateur Ambrose Lloyd). Emrys's father was one of the earliest members of the Baptist congregation at Bangor. His mother was at one time a member of Ebenezer under Dr. Arthur Jones, but left with others to found another church, Bethel (1843-55); she died in 1853. The family lived in the Penrhyn Arms Inn (which later became the first home of the University College of North Wales) from 1813 until 1823, and it was
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Arthur ap Gwynn, born 4 November 1902, was the second of the three children of Thomas Gwynn Jones, the distinguished poet, and Margaret Jane Jones; Eluned was the eldest and Llywelyn the youngest. Arthur ap Gwynn was born in Caernarfon when his father was working on the papers, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Papur Pawb and the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald. The family moved to Denbigh in 1906, Mold in 1907 and
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies '), a battle in which, according to Nennius, pupil of Elfoddw (died 809), Arthur was victorious, and which is recorded in Ann. C., s.a., 518. In Ann. C., s.a., 539, is also mentioned the battle of Camlan, 'in which Arthur and Medrod fell.' It appears that it is this last entry that brings us closest to the Arthur of history. Judging by his name (? Lat. 'Artorius') and by the general conditions in
ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED (1886 - 1953), agricultural economist
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist of schools at Laugharne (1709) and Llanddowror (1716). Moreover, Griffith Jones became connected by marriage with the Vaughan family, he and Richard Vaughan, Bridget's uncle (died 1729), marrying two sisters, Margaret and Arabella Philipps of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire On 30 December 1721 Bridget married ARTHUR BEVAN, barrister-at-law, Laugharne. Bevan became recorder of Carmarthen borough, 1722
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician He was a member of a Swansea family, and (according to Morris Letters, ii, 336) was related to Arthur Bevan. A William Bevan, a Quaker of Swansea, was imprisoned in 1658, and died in 1701, aged 74. His son, Silvanus Bevan (1661 - 1725), married Jane Phillips of Swansea in 1685, and had several sons, two of whom moved to London. The elder, SILVANUS BEVAN, is the subject of this notice. He set up a
BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere Philomusica Orchestra of Aberystwyth. He retired in 1981 as Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of UCW, Aberystwyth, having been Vice-Principal in 1972-74. He married in 1942 Megan Medi, daughter of Arthur and Margaret James at Ebenezer Congregational Chapel, Swansea, and they had two sons and one daughter. He died 11 March 1996, at Aberystwyth.
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, Elizabeth, daughter of Jenkin Lloyd of Berth-lwyd, Llanidloes. Their daughter and heiress, JOYCE, married her second cousin, Sir Arthur Blayney, who belonged to the Irish branch of the family. His father was the 1st lord Blayney who, in turn, was the third son of David Lloyd Blayney (sheriff 1577, v. supra). EDWARD, the 1st LORD BLAYNEY, was a soldier from his youth, and in 1598 he accompanied the earl of
BLAYNEY, ARTHUR, violinist - see BLAYNEY, THOMAS
BLAYNEY, THOMAS (1785), harpist Born at Tyn-y-coed, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire, the son of Arthur and Letitia Blayney. He won the prize (a silver harp and thirty guineas) in the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) says that Blayney was the first whom he heard playing on the triple-harp; he also testifies to his renown as a harpist. He kept a public-house at Lydney North, near Walcot, the Shropshire
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar Hengerdd at Oxford and edited together with Dr Brinley Jones its fruits in Astudiaethau ar yr Hengerdd (1978) in honour of the professor. She was one of the editors of The Arthur of the Welsh (1991), presenting an up-to-date account of Arthurian scholarship. Her two volumes of bibliography: Medieval Celtic Bibliography (Vol. 5 in the Toronto Series of Bibliographies, 1974) and Medieval Welsh Literature

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