Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BLAYNEY family Gregynog, of his tenants, often assisting them by buying their produce. He gave land for the building of good roads, and encouraged the planting of trees. He died 1 October 1795 and was buried at Tregynon on 6 October.
BLEDRI ap CYDIFOR (fl. 1116-30), chieftain The Normans entrusted the castle of Robert Courtemayn near Carmarthen, situated perhaps at Abercywyn, to him during the Welsh revolt of 1116. He figures in the Pipe Roll of 1130 as ' Bledericus Walensis,' who owes £1 for the killing of a Fleming by his men and one mark in respect of scutage. The cartulary of Carmarthen priory shows that, at some time between 1129 and 1134, ' Bledericus ' bestowed
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, enter the English College (1638). In 1618 Gwynne inherited the fortune of Hugh Owen, who had disinherited the heir at law, John Owen the epigrammatist (1560? - 1622), because his works were on the papal Index. Gwynne erected a tablet to Owen's memory in the English College at Rome (text in Archæologia Cambrensis, 1853, 130-1). JOHN BODVEL (1617 - 1663), Royalist colonel Military He was the son and
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician government whip and rose, within a year, to the rank of a government whip. Bowden's success in the Whips' office is reflected in his appointment as Deputy Chief Whip when the Labour party entered opposition in 1951. In the Coronation honours list on 1 June 1953, he was appointed C.B.E. for political and public services. As the deputy, it was likely that Bowden would eventually succeed the Opposition Chief
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor , and was president of the Llanelli Cymrodorion and the Awen a Chân literary circle. He was prominent in all Welsh cultural movements. He published five books on his brother, Ben, eight booklets of his own, and many contributions to the Llanelly Mercury and Seren yr Ysgol Sul. He was twice married. (1) to Hannah Jones of Treorchy, in 1901. She died young leaving one daughter, Myfanwy. In 1909 he
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to set up a Radiation Laboratory in 1943 and wrote the first draft specification for the system. In 1943 he was invited to join the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. He arrived at Sydney on 1 January 1944, and became Chief of the Division of Radiophysics in Sydney in
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal Prydwen Harrison of Penmaen-mawr on 1 October 1935 and they had three children, Gwynn, Mair and Ann. Whilst living in the Rhondda Valley, Bowyer became very aware of the crisis of Wales in the context of the world's anguish, and there were few who could understand or appreciate their minister's strong convictions, especially with regard to the cause of peace and the safeguarding of the Welsh language
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian of the Welsh Bibliographical and other Societies. Many honours came to him in recognition of his service to his country, and of his scholarship. He was made a C.B. in 1911, knighted in 1924, and awarded the D.Litt. of the University of Wales in 1923. He was twice married: (1) to Rosa (died 1927), daughter of Edward Jenkins, Nantygroes, Radnorshire, and (2) Florence, daughter of Francis E. Prothero
BRAOSE family daughters, the family name surviving in the line of JOHN DE BRAOSE, baron of Gower and Bramber. John was killed at Bramber in 1232 by a fall from his horse. He left a widow, Margaret, daughter of Llywelyn the Great, and two sons, the elder of whom, WILLIAM, succeeded him as 2nd baron, while the younger, JOHN, became lord of the manor of Corfham and later of Glasbury. William married (1) Olive de Moulton
BRIOC (fl. 6th century), saint characterized the Celtic saints in general, and the close relations linking the Celtic provinces together. Brioc is the patron of Llandyfrïog in south Cardiganshire, and is remembered too in the place-names of Gloucestershire, Cornwall, and Brittany. His feast is celebrated usually on 1 May.
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar long as she was able. After the Mount, and a period of private coaching, Rachel went in 1934 up to Newnham College Cambridge. For Part 1 of her Tripos she read English, in which she was awarded a first, but as part of the tripos she took a paper in Anglo-Saxon taught by her supervisor Mrs Dorothy de Navarro. For Part 2 Rachel came into the orbit of the famous Hector Munro Chadwick's department
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician Christian faith. Barbara Brooke stayed in Mildenhall, moving to a house called Romans Halt. There had been one last small campaign to complete and that was for a village hall in Mildenhall. She died at Highfield Residential Home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 1 September 2000 and left an estate of £473,318. The Brookes had two sons and two daughters: the elder son, Peter Brooke (born 1934) was Secretary of

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