Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARKER family, artists engraved by Thales Fielding in aquatint. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, and elsewhere. He died 2 March 1838 at Totnes. THOMAS JONES BARKER (1815 - 1882), artist Art and Architecture Son of Thomas Barker 'of Bath '. (His mother was a Jones and a native of Monmouthshire.) When he was 19 he went to the studio of Horace Vernet, Paris, with whom he collaborated later on several
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop Parker, and became bishop of Chichester, where he died in August 1568. The date was correctly given in the 1st edition of D.N.B., for there is a letter (Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, 1547-8, 314) from Barlow's son-in-law to Cecil, dated August 1568, informing him of the bishop's death. Later, the D.N.B., erroneously following Fuller and others (and in spite of Cooper's warning in Athenae
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer from football he joined the staff of the BBC. He also established the first of two successful sports shops in 1950. At the BBC he was a commentator with Kenneth Wolstenholme (1920-2002) on the very first edition of Match of the Day, broadcast on BBC 2 on 22 August 1964. He also assisted Wolstenholme with sporadic remarks during his commentary on England's World Cup triumph against West Germany in
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette Davison on 8 June, following her protest at the Derby. Davison's funeral brought the streets of London to a standstill and Rachel was one of the chief mourners, walking immediately behind the coffin in the procession. Within three days of the funeral Rachel was incarcerated, firstly in Holloway prison and then in Canterbury, where she immediately went on hunger strike. Released into a nursing home when
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist (there is a copy in NLW MS 12416D) was read at a meeting of the Royal Society held 6 June 1771. His notes on 'The Language of Birds' were reprinted in T. Pennant, British Zoology. There are letters from Barrington to friends in North Wales in NLW MS 2065E (one dated 19 October 1775, to Paul Panton, senior), regarding Inigo Jones, Sir John Wynne of Gwydir and Llanrwst bridge, NLW MS 3484C (dated 8 March
BARTRUM, PETER CLEMENT (1907 - 2008), scholar of Welsh genealogy were most accurate in contemporary manuscripts, and that the earlier parts became progessively more corrupt from repeated copying. He therefore copied all the manuscripts from about 1500 on, and established the most reliable text. In 1976 the first of his two monumental collections of pedigrees was published, Welsh Genealogies AD 300-1400 (8 vols, University of Wales Press, Cardiff, dated 1974), with
BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric . Ethelburga's. When his health broke down he returned to Wales where, in 1778, he became curate at S. Fagans, after which he was curate at Porthkerry; in both of these places he established Methodist societies. He travelled throughout South Wales, preaching to the Methodists. In 1783 his health again deteriorated, and he went to his sister's house in Bristol to recuperate; he died there of tuberculosis, 8
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster Huldah Bassett was born on 8 June 1901 in Pen-parc, Cardigan, the daughter of the Rev. David Bassett, a Baptist minister from Ystalyfera, and his wife Mary Hannah (née Charles), from Fforest-fach, Swansea. She had a younger brother, Alun, who was an able mathematician and became head of the examination division of the Welsh Joint Education Committee. In 1914 her father moved to a pastorate in
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Australian tennis authorities for using indecent language! In doubles, Battrick reached the quarter-finals of the French Open in 1968 and 1970. He twice represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup in 1970 and 1974. In 1970 he won the prestigious British Hard Court Championship in Bournemouth defeating the Croatian Željko Franulović (born 1947) in four sets: 6-3, 6-2, 5-7, 6-0. Perhaps his greatest successes
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator Born 2 October 1879 at Epworth, Lincolnshire, son of Charles Christopher Bell and Rachel (née Hughes). His maternal grandfather, John Hughes of Rhuddlan, was a Welsh speaker. Bell received his early education at Nottingham High School. In 1897 he won a scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, and graduated in Classics. He spent a year at the Universities of Berlin and Halle studing Hellenistic
BELL, RONALD MCMILLAN (1914 - 1982), Conservative politician practice from 2 Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, London, practising in London and on the south-eastern circuit. He died suddenly at his office at Westminster on 27 February 1982.
BELLEROCHE, ALBERT de (1864 - 1944), painter and lithographer July 1944, at Rustington, Sussex. He and his wife Emilie Julie Visseaux had 2 sons and a daughter.

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