Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
GRENFELL family, Swansea industrialists and five daughters: Madelina Georgina (1826 - 1903), Pascoe Du Pre (1828 - 1896), St. Leger Murray (1830 - 1860), Arthur Riversdale (1831 - 1895), Gertrude Fanny (1834 - 1880), Elizabeth Mary (1836 - 1894), Francis Wallace (1841 - 1925), Katherine Charlotte (1843 - 1906), Eleanor Catherine (1845 - 1928). MADELINA married Griffith Llewellvn (1802 - 1888) at Baglan Hall in 1850. Llewellyn became rich
IEUAN GETHIN ap IEUAN ap LLEISION (fl. c. 1450) Baglan, poet and gentleman A descendant of the family of Caradog ap Iestyn ap Gwrgant. According to some genealogists (e.g. Gruffudd Hiraethog in Peniarth MS 178, i (43)) he married the daughter of Tomas ab Ifor Hael. Bards from North and South Wales were entertained at his court at Baglan, and two cywyddau addressed to him remain in manuscript, one by Ieuan Ddu ap Dafydd ab Owain, and the other by Iorwerth Fynglwyd. A
LLAWDDOG (fl. 600?), saint is said to have been the son of Dingad ab Nudd Hael, king of Bryn Buga (i.e. Usk), and Tefrian or Tonwy, daughter of Lleuddyn Lwyddog. Few details are known about his life, but tradition maintains that he worked many miracles. He appears to have forsaken his father's kingdom in order to live the life of a religious recluse with his brother BAGLAN in Caernarvonshire. His later years are linked
MORGAN FYCHAN (d. 1288), lord of the Welsh barony of Avan Wallia (or Nedd-Afan) in the honour of Glamorgan son of Morgan Gam. Like his father he was a supporter of the North Wales princes. He may for a time have been deprived of Avan, for in 1282 he is described merely as lord of a half commote in Baglan. His son, LLEISION (died 1328), the first of the family to adopt the surname ' de Avene,' was certainly lord of Avan, being succeeded there in turn by his son and grandson, John and Thomas de Avene
PARRY, JAMES RHYS (fl. 1570?-1625?), poet and author of a Welsh metrical version of the Psalms He was a member of some branch of the old-established family of Parry of Poston, Herefordshire (cf. Parry, Blanche), and Llandefaelog-tre'r-graig, Brecknock - for pedigree, see Theophilus Jones, Brecknock [iv, 2-3, 155], and Llyfr Baglan. James Parry may be the James ap Rhys Parry mentioned in Llyfr Baglan, 37; at the time that his son George Parry went to Oxford (17 January 1633/4) the father
PRICHARD, JOHN (1817 - 1886), architect restoration of Baglan church. He was also the architect responsible for the extensive restoration of Llandaff cathedral between 1844 and 1857. Prichard died 13 October 1886, and was buried in the churchyard on the south side of Llandaff cathedral, near the Lady-chapel and in the same grave as his father, a former vicar-choral of Llandaff for thirty-five years. A brass plate inscribed 'In Memory of a Great
SOUTHALL, REGINALD BRADBURY (1900 - 1965), oil refinery director there except for short absences abroad. He saw the works grow to become the company's second largest refinery in the U.K., whilst he progressed from being works manager in 1942, to become a director in 1950. In 1960 he also became director of British Hydrocarbon Chemicals, Ltd., whose plant at Baglan Bay was fed by the Llandarcy refinery. He was a wise counsellor and was deeply involved with
THOMAS, ROBERT (d. 2 April 1692), Puritan preacher His name is associated with Neuadd Baglan in Glamorgan, and he is probably the Robert Thomas who matriculated from Jesus College, Oxford, August 1658. When the Restoration came and the Act of Uniformity, he was not named among the ministers that were ejected; he was a preacher merely, unordained. In 1669 he was reported as preaching secretly to about twenty followers, those being made up of
THOMAS, WILLIAM (1734 - 1799), cleric and antiquary priest by the bishop of Oxford on 23 September 1759. On 28 April 1760, he was instituted into the living of Aberavon with Baglan and Briton Ferry on the presentation of lord Vernon of Briton Ferry. On 30 December 1763, he was presented by the same patron to Llangynwyd with Baiden, and, on 7 January 1764, nominated to the curacy of Llangeinor by lord Mansel. But for some years after 1760 he lived
VICARI, ANDREW (1932 - 2016), painter the society bought 'Whitsun Procession at Aberdulais' from the show. Another indication of his rising profile in Wales was the donation by BP of his painting 'BP Baglan Bay at Night' (c. 1963) to Amgueddfa Cymru-Museum Wales. However, his big break came in the mid 1970s when he was appointed as the official painter to the Saudi Arabian government and executed sixty large oil paintings on the epic
WILLIAMS family Aberpergwm, This family was descended from Morgan Fychan, second son of Morgan Gam, who in his early days was connected with the area round Baglan; poets of distinction (see D. R. Phillips, below) wrote in honour of various members of this family during the Middle Ages. The surname was adopted by the descendants of William ap Jenkin ap Hopkin of Blaen Baglan; it was his second son, Jenkin William, who first

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