Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AP THOMAS, DAFYDD RHYS (1912 - 2011), Old Testament scholar Dafydd ap Thomas was born 2 May 1912, in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest of the five sons of Reverend W. Keinion Thomas and his wife Jeanette; Gwyn, Alon, Iwan and Jac were his brothers and they had a younger sister, Truda. He received his early education at home and his secondary education at Beaumaris Grammar School before proceeding to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school, Wrexham, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised in
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, verdict quashed, but recovered his seat on the Westminster and Middlesex benches (3 April 1690), maintaining his association with Oates, his coffee-house intrigues and his advanced political sentiments; but although he sat once more for Monmouth from 1695-8 he had no further influence in the House. After his death Llanthony and Llanvihangel were sold by his heir NICHOLAS ARNOLD (born 1669) to the Harley
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge Tribunal as well as the Committee on Crime and Insanity. In the 1920s he became interested in the scientific development of medicine and its impact on the law. He was a president of the Medico-Legal Society (1920-1927) and delivered several speeches on the subject (see British Medical Journal vol. 2/1920; vol 2/1923; vol. 2/1926). During World War II, Lord Atkin represented Australia on the War Crimes
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales , David Llewelyn Mort. He did well, coming third out of six, saving his deposit, and receiving 8% of the vote, more than the Communist and Plaid Cymru candidates together. The result was as follows: Neil McBride (Labour), 18,909; R. Owens (Liberal) 4,895; Reverend Leon Atkin (People's Party), 2,464: Miss A. P. Thomas (Conservative), 2,272; E. Chris Rees (Plaid Cymru), 1,620; Bert Pearce (Communist Party
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, creating a demand for rails. Besides the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg, and the Aberdare branch of the Taff Vale Railway, he made a new line of tramway from Beaufort and Nant-y-glo down to the Clydach valley to Llanfoist, to join the Brecon and Abergavenny canal. In 1852 he promoted a railway from the Forest of Dean, by Coleford, Monmouth, and Usk to Pontypool, etc. By indenture dated 2 February 1867
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, Castle, county Durham. He was high sheriff of Monmouthshire (1823). On 8 January 1835 he was elected M.P. for the city of Worcester, which he represented until he was returned (2 August 1847) as member for the county of Brecknock. He was made a baronet in 1852 and died 20 November 1858. His son, JOSEPH BAILEY II, was elected M.P. (12 December 1837) for Sudbury, Suffolk, and in 1841 was returned for the
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic McCann in 1922. These works have given him a high repute as a mystical writer. His autobiography (written 1637-8, published in Cath. Rec. Soc., xxxiii), leaves the impression of a man of simple, sincere, and lovable character, taking great delight in singing and in walking, and with a flair for conveying his religious and moral teaching in homely English or Latin rhymes, of which he made a collection
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer be out of step with the radicalism of his sons and the determination of his wife, Beth, played by Sian Phillips, Baker sparkled. His version of Gwilym Morgan has never been bettered. How Green Was My Valley was broadcast on BBC Two between 29 December 1975 and 2 February 1976, concluding a few weeks before Baker's forty eighth birthday and eleven days before he was diagnosed with lung cancer. His
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales Born at Pontnewynydd, Monmouth, 12 May 1860, the son of Henry Ballinger; died at Hawarden, Flintshire, 8 January 1933. He was educated at a school in Canton, Cardiff, and became at 15 an assistant in the Cardiff Public Library, remaining there five years until he became librarian of Doncaster; he returned in 1884 to become chief librarian of Cardiff and to succeed in making it one of the best
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
BARHAM family Trecŵn, . for Appleby (1832), J.P. for Pembroke and Westmorland, and M.A., Oxford. He married (1), 1836, Elizabeth Maria (died 1860), daughter of William Boyd Ince of Ince, co. Lancaster, and (2), Ellen Catherine, daughter of E. T. Massey, of Cottesmore, Pembrokeshire From about 1855 it was the Rev. Charles Foster-Barham and his first wife who mainly supported a school (first kept across the boundary in

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