Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society same time changing from a reliance on ground based observations to data from the upper atmosphere. He received the Sc.D. degree (Cambridge) in 1940, and later an honorary D.Sc. degree from the University of London in 1960, and a similar distinction from the University of Wales in 1951. He died 5 February 1965.
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer , returning to Caernarvon each summer. In 1901 he published a volume of poems, Odlau Cân; another, Tua'r Wawr, was published posthumously in 1921. Of his musical compositions the best known is probably the part-song for male voices, ' Y Teithiwr Blin.' He edited Alawon y Celt (n.d.), two books of selections of Celtic airs. He died in Cairo 5 May 1920, and was buried there. He was unmarried. Other members of
BRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist ' Merch Megan.' He died 5 January 1926 and was buried in the graveyard of Tabernacl, Efailisaf.
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer continuing interest in Greek mathematics and throughout his life wrote learned articles on this subject. As a result, the University of Warwick awarded him the degree of D.Sc honoris causa in 1979. He was also awarded the honorary degree of D.Litt. by the University of Wales. He was a real workaholic who needed just four or five hours sleep each night. He married, firstly, on 5 April 1932, Dilys (born 1910
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor Las Vegas in July 1983. During this period Richard was appearing on stage for what would be the final time, starring with Elizabeth Taylor in an American tour of the drama Private Lives - perhaps a classic example of life imitating art. Only a short time was left to Richard: after he filmed his part in a production of 1984 he died in a Geneva hospital on 5 August 1984, having suffered a massive
BURTON, URIAH, 'Big Just' (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist . After Uriah's death a plaque commemorating his achievements was added to the monument. Later in life Uriah spent a lot of time in the Manchester area where he created and ran a large travellers site in Partington. Uriah Burton died in the Park Hospital, Davyhulme on 5 November 1986, and was cremated at Altringham Crematorium on 10 November. The boxers Hosea Noah Burton (b. 1988), former British light
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), and Christ's College, Cambridge (M.A. 1812). He was lord lieutenant of Glamorgan. He is the lord Bute who had so much to do with the rapid growth, commercial and otherwise, of Cardiff and surrounding districts during the first half of the 19th century; the commercial prosperity of the town was greatly accelerated as the result of the opening, 5 October 1839, of the first (i.e. the West) Bute Dock
CARR, HENRY LASCELLES (1841 - 1902), journalist and newspaper proprietor first year of its publication, 1869), then manager, and afterwards editor and partproprietor, until ill health compelled him to retire in 1901. He took part in the public life of Cardiff, as town councillor and J.P. He wrote a number of books, including one on the Welsh Sunday Closing Act. He died 5 October 1902.
CARTER family Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS (1920 - 2004), Labour politician help to the Lancashire aviation industry, but also to love him for what he was, a thoroughly good and decent man. He was awarded the CBE in 1995. He married in 1945 Patricia Hylda, the daughter of Alfred Bastiman of Scarborough, Yorkshire, and they had two daughters. They lived at 5 Cefn Road, Rhosnesni, Wrexham. He died on 16 August 2004.
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Honourable Society awarded him its highest honour, the Cymmrodorion Medal. He was an honorary member of the Gorsedd of Bards under the name Seisyllt. He married Olive Mary, only daughter of alderman Aneurin O. Evans of Denbigh, in 1935, and they had one son. Sir John died in London, 30 November 1964 and the funeral service was in Golder's Green Crematorium, 5 December
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Born 23 August 1872, son of Thomas Chance (died 5 January 1873, 29 yearss old) and Mary (born Williams; died 15 August 1908, 79 years old) of Erwood, Brecknock. He received his early education at Pen-rhiw school, but because of his father's early death he had to leave school when he was 11 years old to earn his living as a farm servant and maintain the family for the next 9 years, initially at

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