Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader also a regular visitor to Colwyn Bay Cricket Club. While in Rhyl he took the initiative to organize Eid prayers. On the morning of 9 January 1941, Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Nant House, Prestatyn. The guest of honour was the dethroned monarch Prince Mohammed Hasan Mirza of Persia, heir of the Qajar Dynasty which had ruled Iran from 1789 to 1925. This event in Prestatyn would be the last Eid
ALLCHURCH, IVOR JOHN (1929 - 1997), footballer Newcastle he was much revered, playing 154 times and scoring 51 goals. From 1962 until 1965 he played in 127 matches for Cardiff City, scoring 47 goals. His final spell at a professional club was with his native Swansea which he re-joined in 1965 at the age of 35 and where he made a further 143 appearances, scoring 52 times. He played in non-league football until he was 50 years of age, and ended his
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author colloquial form of 'Madog.' Baddy entered Frankland's Academy at Rathmell, Yorkshire, on 25 November 1689, and from 1691 to 1693 was a scholar of the Common Fund Board (Nicholson and Axon, The Older Non-conformity in Kendal, and Gordon, Freedom after Ejection, 204). In 1693, he was placed in charge of the Independent congregation at Denbigh, newly re-established by a visit (1690) of James Owen; he remained
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette of Empire' presenting the case for votes for women in a non-violent manner. By the final months of 1911, Rachel had become a key figure in the movement and met with Reginald McKenna, the Home Secretary, in the House of Commons. Given Rachel's growing prominence within the movement and her ability to challenge and debate, it is not surprising that after Christabel Pankhurst's escape to Paris, she
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors first newspaper, The Sunday Times, which was losing money at the time. W.E. Berry was its editor-in-chief, 1915-36. In 1924, with Sir E.M. (later Lord) Iliffe they founded Allied Newspapers. The next big purchase was the Amalgamated Press in 1926, which included a large number of non-political periodicals, a book section, two printing works and the Imperial Paper Mills. The following year they bought
BLETHIN, WILLIAM (fl. 1575 to 1590), bishop of Llandaff Inn (or at Broad-gates) Hall, Oxford. In 1559 he became rector of Sunningwell, Berks.; in the following year he is described as the non-resident rector of Rogiet, Monmouth, being resident at Oxford pursuing his studies. He was also canon of S. Dubricius, Llandaff cathedral. In 1562 he received the degree of B.C.L., Oxon., and became prebendary of Osbaldkirk, in York cathedral. He was resident rector
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician , replaced him with Richard Crossman in the summer of 1966. Bowden became Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs on 11 August 1966; the Queen told the Prime Minister, according to a confidential conversation between Wilson and Crossman, 'how delighted she was that that kind of non-political man was in the job'. As Lord President, Bowden had met the Queen frequently at the Privy Council. Bowden's
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer May 1946. At the end of the war attention turned to non-military matters of importance to Australia. One was radioastronomy which had grown from curiosity concerning the jamming of radar receivers by radiation from the sun. Australia obtained the most powerful radio telescope in the world as a result of his involvement in the design and his efforts to fund its construction. Rockefeller Foundation
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff to build the residential hostel which he had long been advocating. He was dean of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Wales, 1928-32, and he was instrumental with others in helping to establish a Joint School of Theology at Cardiff in 1928, and in 1934 in designing a diploma course that met the requirements of non-graduate students preparing for the ministry. He was a member of Albany Road
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist of Wales Fellowship, had proceeded to the University of London where he undertook further research work on the place-names of Pembrokeshire for the degree of Ph.D. awarded him in 1935 and subsequently published, in a much expanded form, as Non-Celtic Place-names in Wales by the University of London in 1938. Again the reviews were highly complimentary. By this time Charles had in 1936 taken up a
DEWI Saint , founder and abbot-bishop of S. Davids, and patron saint of Wales folk-lore, oral traditions, and some historical facts. He states that David was the son of Sant, king of Ceredigion, and Non (Lat. 'Nonnita'), that he was educated by Paulinus at Henfynyw (near Aberayron), that he founded many monasteries, that he overcame an Irish chieftain called Boia near S. Davids; and he describes the hard life led by David and his fellow-monks, the miracles which he performed
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist well as a challenge, and it was an equally important part of her attempt to preserve the dignity of Welsh culture in the face of depopulation and governmental apathy as her everday work within education. Drawing non-Welsh speakers into this culture was very important to her, and she ensured that a part of the concerts and evenings which she organised in areas such as Pembrokeshire and Rhondda was in

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