Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer Crown was given and on 19 February he set out. He was not long in winning papal favour, having in January 1403 taken care to obtain the king's pardon for the Westminster misdeed. Boniface IX and still more readily Innocent VII were prepared to bestow upon him a British bishopric. But Adam had now, as the result, it may be, of the growing power of Glyn Dwr, to meet the bitter hostility of the king
ALLTUD GLYN MAELOR - see JONES, JOHN ROBERT
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian Born at Ty'nsarn, Llawr-y-glyn, Montgomeryshire, 4 September 1848, the son of Elizabeth Ashton. When he was about 9 years old he began to receive instruction from one John Jones who kept school for three months at a time in the local Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels. At the age of 12 Ashton went to work in the lead mines of Dylife, an occupation which he soon found uncongenial. Leaving
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer final screen appearance was in the comparatively obscure German-Italian television mini-series, Orzowei, which aired in 1977. Baker married Ellen Martin, a fellow actor, whom he met at the London Apollo, in October 1950. Together they had four children: twins Martin (1953-) and Sally (1953-), Glyn (1957-), who went on to become an actor himself, and Adam (1961-). Behind the camera, Baker was known for
BEYNON, ROSSER (Asaph Glan Tâf; 1811 - 1876), musician Born at Glyn Eithinog in the Vale of Neath, Glamorganshire, son of John and Elizabeth Beynon. The family moved in 1815 to Merthyr Tydfil where the son went to a school kept by George Williams, but only for a short period, as he started work when he was 8 years of age in an iron-works where, later, he was to become an important official. He showed an interest in music at an early age and in 1835
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician president of the Johnson Society in 1966, and was created a life peer in 1970, taking the title of Lord Rhyl. His hobbies included reading history, gardening, shooting and fishing. He married the Hon. Esmé Glyn, daughter of the 4th Baron Wolverton on 1 August 1950. There were no children of the marriage. His addresses were 73 Ashley Gardens, London SW1, and Holywell House, Swanmore, Hampshire. Nigel Birch
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, The family claimed descent from Brochwel Ysgythrog. The first member of the family about whom there is definite information is EVAN BLAYNEY, whose name appears eighteenth in the roll of burgesses found in the charter of Welshpool, 7 June, 7 Henry IV (1406), where he is described as 'of Tregynon.' His son, GRIFFITH AP EVAN BLAYNEY, is mentioned by the poet Lewis Glyn Cothi. The Gregynog line of
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, of Brian Walton's recently published Polyglot Bible, acknowledged in a fulsome Latin address of thanks. In 1654 he was associated with John Glyn, John Carter, and William Foxwist in the purchase of the lordship of Hawarden from the earl of Derby. Elected to the Convention Parliament, he was one of the deputation chosen to escort Charles II from Paris (26 April 1660), subsequently turned informer at
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian
CHERLETON family at Grey Friars, Shrewsbury, next to his wife, who died between 1345 and 1353?, being the second founder of the house. JOHN CHERLETON (1362 - 1401) Great-grandson of the above-mentioned John, was Justice of North Wales, 1387, and defeated Glyn Dwr, 1401. EDWARD CHERLETON (1371 - 1421), brother and heir of John, was commissioner for the defence of the Marches, 1403, defeated the earl of
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian His birthplace, in all probability, was Clynnog-fawr inCaernarfonshire. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.C.L. in 1548. After being successively chaplain to (cardinal) Reginald Pole, rector of Orpington, Kent., and dean of Shoreham and Croydon, he was, in 1556, appointed rector of Corwen, by Goldwell, bishop of St Asaph. On the death of William Glyn in 1558, he was raised
CYNLLO (fl. 550?), saint Glyn Cothi as specially celebrated at Rhayader.

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