Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
BOWEN, BEN (1878 - 1903), student and poet The sixth child of Thomas and Dinah Bowen, Treorchy, Rhondda, he was educated at Treorchy Board School, Pontypridd Collegiate School, and Cardiff University College. As a young coal miner he was precociously interested in poetry under the influence of local literary societies, eisteddfodau, and the writings of D. W. Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) in The South Wales Weekly News and Thomas Williams
BOWEN, D.E. (fl. 1840-80), editor, author and Baptist minister in U.S.A. published The Berean; or Miscellaneous Writings of the Reverend D.E. Bowen, Carbondale, Pa. (Carbondale, n.d.); a Lecture on the Life and Genius of the Reverend John Williams, Senior Pastor of the Oliver Street Baptist Church, New York (New York, n.d.).
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer was impossible in Wales, he provided facts that misproved their claims and Wales had its radio system. He married Enid Vesta Williams of Neath in 1938 and they had three sons. He died 12 August 1991 at Ashley House Nursing Home, Chatswood, Sydney, Australia and his funeral was held in Northern Suburbs crematorium 16 August.
BOWEN, IVOR (1862 - 1934), K.C., county court judge . His publications include The Statutes of Wales, 1908, The Great Enclosures of Common Lands in Wales, 1914, ' John Williams of Gloddaeth, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1927-8) and ' Grand Juries, Justices of the Peace and Quarter Sessions in Wales ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1933-4). He left in
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. conflict. This antagonism led to successful legal proceedings for libel being taken by Abraham against Brace. At the conclusion of the miners' strike of 1898, however, the South Wales Miners' Federation was formed, with Abraham as president and Brace as vice-president of the executive council. In 1899 Brace, along with Abraham and John Williams, attended the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of
BRAOSE family , (2) Agnes, daughter of Nicholas de Molis, (3) Mary de Rus, founding a vigorous stock, the several families retaining their identity and succeeding to the family claims on the maternal side. By his third wife, William had two sons, RICHARD (died 1292) and PETER (died 1312). Richard married Alice de Longespee, their numerous descendants holding the manors of Whittingham and Akenham, Suffolk; Stinton
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer Born Cesail Graig, Pwll, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 23 February 1875, son of John and Mary Brazell. He was reared in a musical family; his father (a collier) was fond of music, and two of his brothers, John and Thomas, were fairly well known musicians - John a tenor soloist, and Thomas a choir conductor and a precentor at the Independent chapel in Pwll. David and John went on a tour in the United
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary Born at Carmarthen 13 April 1835, son of John Breese, Congregational minister, and Margaret, daughter of David Williams of Saethon in Llŷn. His father's death in 1842 threw him upon the care of his mother's kindred, who were influential in south Caernarvonshire. In particular, his uncle, David Williams of Bron Eryri already far advanced in a prosperous career as lawyer and politician, was able to
BREESE, JOHN (1789 - 1842), Independent minister many occasions walked to and from Manchester to minister to the church at that place. He became famous throughout the length and breadth of Wales as a preacher - so much so that, during this period, he and William Williams (1781 - 1840) were the preachers mostly in demand at preaching assemblies. In 1835 he moved to Carmarthen to take charge of the church in Lammas Street, but shortly afterwards his
BREWER, JEHOIADA (1752? - 1817), Independent minister and hymn-writer minister of Carr's Lane chapel, Birmingham, in succession to Dr. Edward Williams of Rotherham; but in 1802 accompanied a secession thence to Livery Street. He died 24 August 1817 while a large new chapel in Steelhouse Lane was being built for him. Some of his sermons were published, and several of his hymns, e.g. ' Hiding Place ' and ' Star of Bethlehem ' (translated into Welsh), became very popular.

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