Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights the town. She died there on 31 March 1940, and was buried, with Vowe Johnson, in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church. In 2018, on the centenary of the enfranchisement of women, a Blue Plaque in her memory was unveiled at 26 Picton Terrace, Carmarthen by the head girls of the two local comprehensive schools. In the same year, a Blue Plaque was also unveiled at Middleton Hall by her great-niece Margaret
ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer He drew his origin from the town of Usk, on the river of that name. He owed his start in life to Edmund Mortimer, 3rd earl of March, who held the lordship of Usk as part of the inheritance of his wife, Philippa, and who in 1369 gave Adam the means to study civil and canon law at Oxford. In due course, he took the degree of doctor of laws and settled as a teacher of law in the university, where
ALLEN, ROBERT (1847 - 1927), Baptist minister , 1887-90, Capel Rhondda, 1890-2, Calfaria, Maesteg, 1892-1908, and Philadelphia, Cwm Ogwr, for a short while. He died 13 March 1927 in Nantyffyllon, Maesteg. Although he had a small coalmine and a small farm, he showed no great enthusiasm for either the one or the other and was more in his element lecturing. Possessing a homely wit and an exceptional gift of oratory, he delighted his congregations by
ANEIRIN (fl. second half of the 6th century), poet Britons which lived on the banks of the Firth of Forth near Edinburgh in the region of Manaw Gododdin - the 'Votadinoi' of Ptolemy in the 2nd century. The subject of the poem is the march of the host or bodyguard of Mynyddawg from Dineiddyn to Catraeth (Catterick or Richmond in Yorkshire) to attempt the recapture of that place from the Saxons. The host consisted of 300 warriors, and all but one were
ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor brother Rhodri. In September 1273 he was with him and of his counsel. But, as the clouds gathered for the conflict of 1277, his position became difficult. He was, indeed, a Welshman and Llywelyn's confessor, but he was not prepared to defy the royal power. Soon after 21 March of this year he fled to England and found refuge in the abbey of S. Albans. His relatives fought on the king's side, and the
ANIAN (d. 1293), bishop of St Asaph Gregory X making charges against the prince, which, on 7 March 1274, were warmly denied in a joint missive of the Welsh Cistercian abbots, assembled at Strata Florida. Later in the year, on 19 October, a full assembly of the clergy of the diocese drew up, at the instance of Anian, a statement of the matters at issue between him and Llywelyn. The quarrel went on during 1275; on 25 May of that year the
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales remained on the Council in the name of the Labour Party until 1947 when he was asked, because of his constant criticism, to stand in another ward. He refused and formed his own political party called The People's Party and he kept his seat until he lost it 17 years later in 1964. He stood as a Parliamentary candidate at Swansea East in the by-election on 28 March 1963 as a result of the death of the MP
AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN (1888 - 1969), politician, local historian and author Borough Council in 1931, and became an alderman in 1939; he held his seat until he resigned in November 1945, having served as mayor of Barry in 1941-42. He also served as Port Labour Inspector, South Wales Ports, during 1941-42. In March 1937 he was made a J.P. for Glamorganshire. He also became Deputy Sheriff for the county and in 1951 was elevated chairman of Glamorgan magistrates. In the 1945
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors iron-works at Pen-y-darren. Before Tanner had transferred his lease (in or about March, 1786) to Richard Crawshay of London, later the celebrated iron-master, Anthony Bacon had died at Cyfarthfa (21 January 1786) at the age of 67. He had left 'the extensive Works of Cyfarthfa, Plymouth and Hirwaun, all in full operation, guided by his single will,' together with an estate called ' Banklands ' in the
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, for many years) as from 25 March 1811. They soon had the works restored, and before the end of the first year were loading their pig-iron into barges on the Monmouthshire Canal. Production increased year by year. Even during 1816, the year after the end of the Napoleonic wars, when there was a general slump in iron manufacture, and acute unrest throughout the country caused by the high cost of wheat
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer Born 2 March 1871, son of William Bancroft, Carmarthen Arms, Waterloo Street, Swansea, the eldest of 11 children. He plied his craft as a shoemaker. He was born in Carmarthen but was brought up in the shadow of Saint Helen's sports ground, Swansea. He played for the local youth team, the Excelsiors, before playing his first game for Swansea on 5 October 1889. After only 17 games, and without a

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