Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies He became in later ages the chief figure of the Arthurian cycle of tales. Nothing definite is known about him as a historical character, although his existence can no longer be denied, nor can he be explained, as he was by Sir John Rhys and others, as a purely legendary figure. He is not mentioned by Gildas, c. 540, in his reference to the victory of the Britons at ' Badon Hill ' ('Mons Badonicus
ASAPH (fl. c. 600), reputed founder of the see of St Asaph
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer (Cranmer, 576) that he was deprived for 'incompliance' seems to be unfounded. Elizabeth allowed him (23 February 1559) to alienate the office to John Griffith, B.C.L. (Rymer, Foedera, xv, 565). Aubrey now devoted himself to his practice in the prerogative and ecclesiastical courts as Master in Chancery (c. 1555), Master of Requests (1590), advocate in the Court of Arches and Judge of Audience in the
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist
BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Mostyn, and published in Chester in 1765. NLW MS 843B, which was copied c. 1761, contains his sequence of englynion to the Deity. In 1784 appeared his translation of de Courcy's Letter of Advice …, in 1785 his translation of James Hervey's Meditations, and in 1792 of Theophilus Priestley's sermon on the death of Selina, countess of Huntingdon. In 1795 (?), at Chester, was printed A specimen of select
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette Rachel Barrett was born on 12 November 1874 at 23 Union Street, Carmarthen, the second child of Ann Barrett (née Jones, 1839-c.1906) and Rees Barrett (1812-1878), a road surveyor. Both her parents were Welsh-speakers. Her father died when she was four years old and the family moved to a property in Morley Street. Rachel attended Stratford Abbey School in Stroud as a boarder and, having excelled
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer The date and place of his birth are uncertain. Born c. 1575, probably at Carmarthen, because of the prevalence of the Bayly surname there, and the particular reference to the town in his last will. Possibly the son of Thomas Bayly who was a curate at Carmarthen that year. He was at Abermarlais for a period and had the patronage of the family that lived there. He went to Exeter College, Oxford
BEADLES, ELISHA (1670 - 1734), Quaker and writer Son of John Beadles of Kempston, Beds., and Elizabeth, heiress of Walter Jenkins of Pant, a Quaker. He married Anne Handley in 1699. He translated into Welsh the treatise by his grandfather, Walter Jenkins, entitled, ' The law given forth out of Zion, etc. ', the translation being printed at Shrewsbury c. 1715, under the title Y gyfraith a roddwyd allan o Sion wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg er
BECK, THOMAS (d. 1293), bishop of S. Davids , from October 1274 to the end of 1280, was that of keeper, i.e. head, of the wardrobe; he was sometimes styled the king's treasurer. As usual, the Church supplied the emoluments; he appears as archdeacon of Dorset (1275) and later (c. 1280) of Berkshire, and, in January 1280, received from the king the prebend of Castor in Lincoln cathedral. The gift of a prebend in S. Davids in May 1280 foreshadowed
BEDO AEDDREN (fl. c. 1500), bard
BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet
BELCHER, JOHN (fl. 1721-1763), Methodist exhorter America. It was rumoured in Wales that he died out there c. 1751, but it is known that he was at Trevecka in August 1763. He was a man of strong intellectual gifts and an exceedingly acceptable preacher.

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