Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, Newborough - had long been intriguing for the succession to the Bodvel estates, and he now got Bodvel into his power by poisoning him against his family and hiding him from importunate creditors in the slums of London, where, in the extremity of squalor and sickness of body and mind, he made a new will (1662), leaving his estates to Wynne's son Griffith (who assumed the name of Bodvel) and another distant
BOOTH, FLORENCE ELEANOR (1861 - 1957), Salvationist and social reformer got off to an enthusiastic start and she gathered the first 120 girls in eight troops at Regent Hall, London. In 1921, she announced the formation of a new junior girls' organization, the Sunbeams, whose ages at that time would be eight or nine. Girls in many countries now benefit from the recreational, service and skill-building projects of these groups. When Commissioner Henry Howard retired as
BOWEN, EMRYS GEORGE (1900 - 1983), geographer study of physical anthropological characters in correlation with varied distributions'. This was the outcome of his work in what now would be called medical geography where he was especially concerned with the incidence of miner's phthisis in the lead mines of Cardiganshire. A number of publications, including 'The incidence of Phthisis in relation to race type and social environment in South and West
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. constituency until 1918. During this period he maintained his connection with the South Wales Miners' Federation and in 1912 became its president. There was, however, by now, some opposition to his policies from amongst the miners on the grounds that he was not sufficiently radical. In 1915 he became under-secretary at the Home Office in the wartime coalition government, and the following year was appointed
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer particularly in Tir Iarll. Iolo maintained that it was in Bradford's manuscripts that he had obtained details about many of those things which we now know were forged by Iolo himself. It is, therefore, essential that all that was written and printed about Bradford in the 19th century should be discounted. According to the diary of William Thomas (1727 - 1795), Bradford was buried 6 June 1785. The Bradford
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter , he had the idea of depicting the wealth of the British Empire for which they had died, but when the work was barely half done the panels were rejected by the Lords and the large colourful pictures now adorn Swansea civic centre where the Brangwyn Hall was designed to accommodate them. A large collection of the drawings and cartoons which were made in the preparation of this work is in the Glynn
BROWN, MIA ARNESBY (1867 - 1931), artist is now in the National Museum of Wales. She married, 1896, Sir John Arnesby Brown, R.A., artist. She died in 1931, aged 64.
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier ) in 1922 when (General) John Geoffrey Bruce (born 4 December 1896, his cousin, son of Sir Gerald Trevor Knight-Bruce of St. Hilary, Glamorganshire) broke the world record with an ascent of 8,300 metres, and in 1924 when Mallory and Irvine were lost on the final slopes. Bruce himself was unable to climb to great heights by now but according to Longstaff he was an 'ideal leader'. In his time technical
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare the end of his political career, for the Gladstone administration was defeated in 1874 and lord Aberdare (as he now was) was free to devote himself to his special interests. These were in general social and educational questions. In 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was also president of the Royal Geographical Society and of the Royal Historical Society. It was as president of
BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author Oxford, and in 1832 a privy councillor. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Gott, Newland Park, Buckinghamshire. He died 17 March 1847 at Boultibrook, near Presteign, a house whence (in 1923) some Boultibrook manuscripts came to the National Library of Wales (now NLW MSS 4901-12), to be supplemented (in 1943) by a very large group of Harford Jones and Harford Jones Brydges papers which came from
BRYNACH (fl. late 5th century - early 6th century), saint The chief source for the Brynach legend is a 'life' composed probably in the 12th century and now preserved in B.M. Cotton Vesp. MS. A. xiv. The wealth of local details makes it almost certain that the author was a native of Cemais in north Pembrokeshire. The 'life' reveals nothing of the saint's antecedents, but Welsh tradition remembers him as Brynach Wyddel (the Irishman). After a pilgrimage
BURTON, IAN HAMILTON (Archimandrite Barnabas) (1915 - 1996), Orthodox priest . Life was not easy, but the daily life of the monastery revolved around the Divine Office and people came from far and wide to find healing and peace in the seclusion, silence and order. Anxious to see an Orthodox parish develop beyond the monastery, Archimandrite Barnabas set up a small house church in Combe Martin. This is now the Orthodox Parish of the Holy Prophet Elias, with a church in Exeter as

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