Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRAOSE family Abergavenny Seisyll ap Dyfnwal and others of the Welsh of his lordship and treacherously put them to death. Giraldus, however, exonerates him from blame and refers to the religious zeal shown by William and his wife. Certainly, he was a benefactor of the priories of Brecon and Abergavenny. William was Sheriff of Herefordshire, 1192-99, and, in 1196, Justice Itinerant for Staffordshire. He accompanied
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary mother he claimed descent from Rhys ap Tewdwr and Trahaearn Goch o Lŷn, and he adopted a shield on which were quartered the arms attributed to them. CHARLES EDWARD BREESE (1867 - 1932), solicitor and antiquarian Law History and Culture Scholarship and Languages Of his sons followed him both in his profession and his antiquarian interests. Admitted a solicitor in 1889, he served on the Caernarvonshire
BROCHWEL YSGYTHROG (fl. 550), prince He was, according to tradition, the outstanding figure in the older line of rulers of Powys, insomuch that the poets came to call Powys the land of Brochwel. He was the son of Cyngen and the father of Cynan Garwyn and of S. Tysilio, founder of the ancient church of Meifod. As his grandson, Selyf ap Cynan, fell while leading the Welsh in the battle of Chester (c. 613), he cannot be the Brocmail
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym. Her Cymmrodorion lecture of 1964, 'Tradition and Innovation in the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym', was followed by an overview of the poet's work in her 'Writers of Wales' volume, Dafydd ap Gwilym (1974). Her various critical papers were brought together in 1986 in Aspects of the Poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym: collected papers. The high spot of her work on Dafydd ap Gwilym was
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier father being a most complete lover of his own valleys and hills.' Before joining the army he had walked with (Sir) Rhys Williams of Miskin 'from South to North Wales' and had become a 'worshipper of the wild Welsh mountain scenery' (p. 25). His teacher in rural matters was a farmer from the valley and according to Longstaff, Bruce used to sing Welsh airs with gusto. He married Finetta Madeline Julia
BRWMFFILD, MATTHEW (fl. 1520-60), poet According to Cwrtmawr MS 12B (629), he was a native of Maelor. In his to 'Saint Tydecho and the two parishes of Mowthwy,' having equally praised Llan-ym-Mawddwy and Mallwyd, he asserts that he yearns more for the latter than the former. He wrote poems in praise of Rhisiart ap Rhys ap Dafydd Llwyd of Gogerddan 'about 1520'; of Rhys ap Howel of Porthamyl, Anglesey, 'within the month of November
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister religious matter. Among them may be noted The Vicar of Llandovery, 1821, 1830, an English version of the works of Rhys Prichard; Memoirs of the Life of Howell Harris, 1824; and Memoirs of Benjamin Evans (one of his predecessors at Albany), 1826.
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director 1945, succeeding the ailing Rowland Hughes as the BBC English language features producer in Cardiff. He described this as 'the watershed of my life'. He produced work by Rhys Davies who became a good friend. In 1947 Burton commissioned Dylan Thomas's Return Journey, adding five minutes to the script himself in order to meet the requisite broadcast time. He later played the Reverend Eli Jenkins in the
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer his return by James I. For the rest of his long naval career he served as ' Admiral of the King's ships on the coast of Ireland.' Sir Thomas married Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Rice of Dynevor, Carmarthenshire, and they had seven children. He made his home at Cardiff. Miles, his eldest son, married Barbara, the daughter and heiress of Rhys Meurug (' Merrick ') of Cottrell, Glamorganshire, his
BWTTING, RHYS (fl. 15th century), harpist A native of Prestatyn, Flintshire. He was awarded the prize as the chief singer to the accompaniment of the harp in the eisteddfod held at Carmarthen in 1451 under the patronage of king Henry VI and under the authority of Gruffudd ap Nicolas.
CADELL ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1175) The son of Gruffydd ap Rhys (died 1137). He is first heard of in 1138, when, with his brother Anarawd and Owain and Cadwaladr of Gwynedd, he brought a Viking fleet of fifteen ships, no doubt from Dublin, to the mouth of the Teify, in a vain endeavour to capture Cardigan, the last foothold left to the Normans in Ceredigion. During the next few years he was overshadowed by his elder brother, but
CADFAN, prince He was the son of Iago ap Beli (died 613), of the line of Maelgwn Gwynedd. Beyond the fact that he ruled over Gwynedd, nothing is known of his history. His tombstone, of the early 7th century, survives in the church of Llangadwaladr, Anglesey; it bears the inscription, 'Catamanus rex sapientisimus opinatisimus (“most renowned”) omnium regum.' Legend gives him a place in the lives of S. Winifred

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