Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author Born 27 June 1875 in Chester, son of John Anwyl, lay preacher, of the Anwyl family of Caerwys, Flintshire, and his wife Ellen (née Williams), whose family came from Llangwnnadl, Caernarfonshire. He entered the ministry and became minister of Elim (Congl.), Carmarthen in 1899. Owing to deafness he relinquished his church to take charge of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Pontypridd, 1904-19. In 1914
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Arthur ap Gwynn, born 4 November 1902, was the second of the three children of Thomas Gwynn Jones, the distinguished poet, and Margaret Jane Jones; Eluned was the eldest and Llywelyn the youngest. Arthur ap Gwynn was born in Caernarfon when his father was working on the papers, Yr Herald Cymraeg, Papur Pawb and the Carnarvon & Denbigh Herald. The family moved to Denbigh in 1906, Mold in 1907 and
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, The founder of the fortunes of this old Monmouthshire family, descended from Gwilym ap Meurig but adopting the surname Arnold at an early stage, was Sir NICHOLAS ARNOLD (1507? - 1580), a gentleman pensioner of Henry VIII who, in consequence of his work for Thomas Cromwell at the Dissolution (18 June 1546) acquired Llanthony abbey (living, however, on his Gloucestershire estates), became a rabid
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies Britain at the end of the 5th century and the beginning of the 6th, it is not unlikely that he came from a family which had come under Roman influences, and that he held some military post in the arrangements for defending the island after the departure of the Roman legionaries. By the time of Nennius, Arthur had become a heroic figure, and many folk-tales had been associated with his name. In the Hist
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge . The couple had eight children - six daughters and two sons. The eldest son was killed in the war in France in 1917. The family lived in Kensington, London, and from 1912 also had a house in Aberdyfi, Craig-y-don, where they spent their summer holidays. As a legal practitioner, Atkin served on the South Wales and Chester circuit, but actually spent most of his time in London, especially once he began
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales Born in Spalding, Lincolnshire on 26 July 1902, the son of a gas manager, he was one of seven children. The family lived next door to the Methodist chapel, and though they were Anglicans, Leon as a child attended their activities and he became a Methodist. The family moved in 1914 to Biddulph, and in 1916 he became a boy preacher, which brought him a great deal of publicity that he thoroughly
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref, Brecknock. He is said to have been educated at Christ College, Brecon, whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford, taking his B.C.L. in 1549, his doctorate in 1554, becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn Hall. He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law, but Strype's conjecture
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, distinguished himself from the others rather by his attitude towards the future of the coal industry. He foresaw the wealth that could be obtained from the development of the South Wales coal basin, and bought up many large areas at their agricultural value - at Aberaman, Mountain Ash, and in the Rhondda valley. He bought the Aberaman estate with its mansion, the home of generations of the Mathews family
BAILEY family Glanusk Park,
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic He was born at Abergavenny, of an old local family (of the same original stock as the Cecils) which had only recently dropped the Welsh patronymic for the English surname. His father, William Baker, a public-spirited man who did much for fruit culture and the cloth industry in his neighbourhood, was a J.P. and steward to the lords of Abergavenny; his mother, Maud Lewis, was daughter to Lewis
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales Sir John Wynne's The history of the Gwydir family; he published Gleanings from a Printer's File in 1928, and ' Katheryn of Berain ' in Cymm., xl. He served as editor of the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society for some years. He was awarded the honorary degree of M.A. by the University of Wales, in 1909, became a C.B.E. in 1920, and was made a knight bachelor in 1930, in which year he

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