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  • BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster the whole of Wales in the same examination. She went to University College Cardiff to study Welsh under Professor W. J. Gruffydd and was one of the five pupils to whom Gruffydd dedicated his Llenyddiaeth Cymru o 1450 hyd 1600 in 1922, the year in which she graduated with first class honours in Welsh. Her first teaching post was in Cowbridge, from where she moved to the Girls' County School in Barry
  • BASSETT, RICHARD (1777 - 1852), Methodist cleric Born at Tresigin, Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, 7 November 1777. He was educated at Cowbridge grammar school, and, for a time, at Jesus College, Oxford. He was ordained deacon in 1801 and priest in 1802. After being curate of S. Athan and Llandow he became rector of Eglwys Brewis in 1832 and vicar of Colwinston in 1843, where he died 31 August 1852. His greatest friend was William Howels, who
  • BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician memorial to such a controversial political figure to be displayed in a public place. The petition was rejected by the Council and the statue was then vandalised with yellow paint and tar by Conservative William Thorn. Batchelor's epithet on the plinth of the statue, 'Friend of Freedom', was another cause of complaint from Conservative opposition. Frequent contributor to the Western Mail and staunch
  • BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author Of Upper Bryn, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire. He was born at Monmouth and christened on 14 June 1814, the only son of George Trotham Baxter (1762-1841) of Hereford, and was a member of an old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newtown. Among his ancestors was Richard Baxter, the famous Presbyterian divine. He entered an Oxford college but did not graduate there. Four of his works are
  • BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer The date and place of his birth are uncertain. Born c. 1575, probably at Carmarthen, because of the prevalence of the Bayly surname there, and the particular reference to the town in his last will. Possibly the son of Thomas Bayly who was a curate at Carmarthen that year. He was at Abermarlais for a period and had the patronage of the family that lived there. He went to Exeter College, Oxford
  • BEALE, ANNE (1816 - 1900), writer 1900, aged 84. Anne Beale is not to be confused with Anna Chrysogon Beale, who died, aged 82, 19 September 1917, and was a younger sister of Dorothea Beale, principal of the Ladies' College, Cheltenham.
  • BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter old leader Harris, was also attracted to Moravianism. In 1750, he went down to Pembrokeshire 'for his health,' according to a Moravian record, and preached there. He died at Haverfordwest, 22 June 1750, and was buried at Prendergast. There was Moravian preaching at the Gore from 1751 on, and there were Radnorshire members of the Leominster Moravian congregation.
  • BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure -General 1935-40, and to the Secretary of State for War 1942-45. He was defeated by the Labour candidate at the 1945 general election. Beaumont had served with the Territorial Army since his appointment as 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Engineers Infantry on 26 July 1931. While still a Member of Parliament, Beaumont had passed the staff college examinations and achieved the rank of major. After the end of the
  • BEBB, LLEWELLYN JOHN MONTFORD (1862 - 1915), cleric principal of St. David's College, Lampeter. He was made an honorary canon of St. David's in 1910. He married Louisa Fraser of London in 1886 and they had four sons and three daughters. He died 22 November 1915 and was buried at Lampeter. One of his daughters was Gwyneth Marjory Bebb (1889-1921) who campaigned for the admission of women to the legal profession.
  • BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician weeks for Paris, where he attended the lectures of Prof. Joseph Loth at the Collège de France and acted as Assistant in Welsh to Joseph Vendryes. He worked in Paris until 1925, when he was appointed tutor at the Normal College, Bangor, where he remained for the rest of his life, teaching Welsh, History and Scripture Knowledge at various times. Ambrose Bebb published six books on the history of Wales
  • BEDO HAFESP (fl. 1568-1585), poet of Montgomeryshire his skill was equal to that of poets like Owain Gwynedd, Siôn Tudur, Ifan Tew, Rhys Cain, etc. (Llanstephan MS 43 (22)). The last date appertaining to him is 1585, when he wrote a poem on the death of Siôn Gruffydd of Llŷn.
  • BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet Born 4 June 1915, son of Sir Harold Idris Bell 1879 - 1967) and Mabel Winifred (née Ayling). He received his education at a private school at Crouch End, London, and Merchant Taylors' School, where he was taught the classics and was given some instruction in art. He spent four years at the Royal College of Art, and gained the diploma. He joined the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to the