Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player were achieved in 1971 when he won the singles title at the Dutch Open in Hilversum, defeating Australian Ross Case (born 1951) in the final in three straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, 9-7. He also won the Dewar Cup indoor singles tournament in that year defeating the well-known Australian-born South African Bob Hewitt (born 1940) 6-3, 6-4. In 1971 Battrick married Carolyn A. Camp (born 1947), a former Surrey
BOB TAI'R FELIN - see ROBERTS, ROBERT
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist 11 volumes. The following are volumes of essays: Shwrwd (1967), Clychau yn y Glaw (1973), Defaid yn Chwerthin (1980), and Pobol sy'n Cyfri (2001). Buwch ar y Lein (1987) and Prynu Lein Ddillad (2009) are based on her Ruthin diaries. Merch Morfydd (1987) is autobiographical and both Perfedd Hen Nain Llewelyn (1985) and Clust y Wenci (1991) are selections of her articles. Rhywbeth Bob Dydd (2008
DAIMOND, ROBERT (BOB) BRIAN (1946 - 2020), civil engineer and historian Bob Daimond was born on 1 May 1946 in Tenterden, Kent, the youngest of three children of schoolteachers Charles Daimond (1910-1970) and Stella Ellerbeck (1908-1997). The family later moved to Wolverhampton when Charles became Youth and Community Services Officer for Wolverhampton Local Authority and where Stella eventually became the Deputy Head of St Peter's Girls School. Bob attended St
EDWARDS, JOHN (1755 - 1823), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter would not allow him to preach; he moved first to Gelli-gynan (Llanarmon-yn-Iâl), then in 1811 to Plas Coch in Llanychan, Denbighshire, and finally (1817) to Caerwys Hall, Flintshire; in all these districts he founded Methodist causes. He was a skilled farmer, and took great interest in veterinary medicine, publishing at Denbigh in 1816 Y Cyfarwyddyd Profedig i bob Perchen Anifeiliaid. He died 19
EDWARDS, ROBERT (1796 - 1862), musician -four years, as precentor there, he succeeded John Ellis (1760 - 1839). He composed ' Caersalem,' 8.7.4., one of the most popular hymn-tunes in Wales. Written in 1824, it appeared in Peroriaeth Hyfryd (John Parry), 1837, and became known as ' Tôn Bob y Felin ' (Bob of the Mill's tune). In 1878 it was published in Y Cysegr a'r Teulu (Thomas Gee), and there attributed to E. Roberts, but information
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author The second of Robert and Winifred Evans' four children, and the eldest son, he was born February 5 1909, at Y Fedw, a farm in the parish of Llanycil, near Bala, Meirionethshire. His father was an elder and the precentor in Moelygarnedd Chapel (C M.) and his mother was of the Lloyd family, Pen-y-bryn, Llandderfel. 'Llwyd o'r Bryn' (Bob Lloyd) was her brother, and as a boy Trebor turned to his
GWYNN, HARRI (1913 - 1985), writer and broadcaster , to return to the countryside and to Wales in particular', Harri threw up a comfortable job and a salary of nearly one thousand pounds a year and bought a 34-acre smallholding, Tyddyn Cwcallt, near Rhoslan in Eifionydd. A close neighbour Bob Owen, Croesor, opined that they were 'mad'. This was the first experience either of them had had of farming, even though Harri's childhood home, Garth Celyn
HAM, PETER WILLIAM (1947 - 1975), musician and songwriter management served him ill. When Warner Brothers discovered that advances paid to Polley for Badfinger had gone missing, the Wish You Were Here album was withdrawn from shops and the group's affairs collapsed into chaos. Pete attempted to leave Badfinger, but felt compelled to return on being told that Warner would not support his bandmates without him. Bob Jackson took Joey Molland's place for a final
HEYCOCK, LLEWELLYN (LORD HEYCOCK OF TAIBACH), (1905 - 1990), prominent leader in local government in Glamorganshire erected as a memorial hall), Taliesin Mainwaring, Rees Llewellyn and Robert (Bob) Williams who fought unsuccessfully as the Labour candidate in the Aberavon constituency in the 'Khaki' Election of 1918. Heycock came under the charisma of Ramsay MacDonald and his oratory as a socialist propagandist, and they celebrated in Port Talbot when he won the seat from the Liberals in November 1922. Later
HUGHES, HUGH (Tegai; 1805 - 1864), Independent minister and man of letters ; and Dawn ar Bob Dyn. Tegai worked unceasingly as a preacher, author, and poet and may be justly regarded as a very notable example of a poor country boy who, lacking the advantages of birth and education, taught himself and acquired an honoured position among his contemporaries; Dr. Lewis Edwards praised his Gramadeg and 'J.R.' of Llanbryn-mair and Gwilym Hiraethog paid tributes to the excellence of
JENKINS, HERBERT (1721 - 1772), early Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister Humphreys's pamphlet in defence of Methodism (Atteb i bob dyn a ofynno rheswm am y gobaith sydd ynom), in 1745, he was in effect lost to Wales from 1743 on. His work lay rather in England, and his colleagues were John Cennick and the English Methodists; he was elected member of the English Conference in March 1744 (Tabernacle conference book in N.L.W. - extracts printed in Y Drysorfa, 1936, 159-62), and he

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