Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BREESE, JOHN (1789 - 1842), Independent minister health began to fail and he died 8 August 1842. He was buried in Lammas Street burial ground. He was above all a doctrinal preacher, and his congregations sometimes had difficulty in following him, but so striking was his delivery that he rarely failed to captivate them. An article written by him can be found in the volume entitled Galwad Ddifrifol (A Serious Call), better known as 'Y Llyfr Glas' (The
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 Welsh and added that Wales was more than a region, it was a nation: “It is a land of mountains and valleys, and sun and shadow, and often the long, dark shadow of unemployment has chased the joy away.” [Lords Hansard, 2 July 1970] The last campaign led by Barbara Brooke arose from her position as Chairman of the Governors of Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith. The governors refused to accept
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, , Mary Wyke, after settling on her all his estates (6-7 April 1660) and binding himself to good behaviour in a famous written imprecation (printed in Pennant, Tours, 1883 ed., iii, 286-8), being thereupon admitted to the lucrative leasehold interest of the Wykes in the Gatehouse and its precincts. He lived on this property till he was killed at sea in the Dutch war (26 June 1665) and buried at
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman with eminent sportsmen and Bible stories for children. Bruce's mother died on 8 September 1950 and his father remarried on 12 September 1957, but died in a car accident in Yugoslavia, during his honeymoon, on 4 October; he was buried at Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, on 8 October. The new Lord Aberdare took his seat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords on 5 February 1958; he made his
BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691 - 1760), squire and diarist Of Brynddu in Llanfechell, Anglesey. Born 4 November 1691. His surviving diaries are two in number, one extending from 30 March 1734 to 8 June 1743; the other from 1 August 1747 to 28 September 1760. They are perfect treasure-houses of allusion and incident; Anglesey life in the commote of Talybolion never had such an historian. Weather and social customs are described at great length, personal
BUSH, PERCY FRANK (1879 - 1955), rugby player Born 23 June 1879, in Cardiff. The family came originally from Penygraig. His father, James Bush, was an art teacher and one of the founders of the Cardiff rugby club in 1875. Percy Bush was educated at University College, Cardiff. He won 8 caps as an outside-half between 1905 and 1910. He was a remarkable character, full of humour and the unexpected on the rugby field. He was completely self
BUTLER, Lady ELEANOR CHARLOTTE (1739 - 1829), one of the 'Ladies of Llangollen' died on 2 June 1829, and Ponsonby two years later. They were interred under the triangular monument in St Collen's Church, Llangollen next to their faithful friend Carryl. The Ladies were adamant about not having their portraits done but in 1828 Mary Parker (later Lady Leighton) made two sketches of their faces from under the library table. Ponsonby was in profile but as Butler was now very blind it
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince success; in 1138 they failed, even with the aid of a Danish flotilla, to break down the persistence of the garrison of Cardigan, and Cadwaladr was content to reap the fruits of victory and to occupy northern Ceredigion as his share of the spoil. A little later he appears in a somewhat surprising light as an ally of earl Randolph II of Chester in the attack upon Lincoln of 2 February 1141, which resulted
CAMPBELL, ELIZA CONSTANTIA (1796 - 1864), author Born 8 January 1796, she was the daughter of Richard Pryce of Gunley near Forden (one of whose ancestors, Capt. Richard Pryce, was a prominent Montgomeryshire Roundhead). She was twice married: first (1826) to Commander Robert Campbell, R.N. (died 1832), a cousin of Thomas Campbell the poet - one of their sons was Lewis Campbell the Greek scholar; and secondly (1844) to Capt. Hugh Morrieson
CAMPBELL, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) included the Carmarthenshire Militia, which he commanded for ten years, and the Royal Agricultural Society of which he was president in 1901. He died of pneumonia at Mayfair on 8 February 1911, and was buried at Stackpole Church, Pembrokeshire.
CARADOG FYNACH (d. 1124), recluse successful as to obtain a letter from the pope appointing the abbots of Whitland, S. Dogmaels, and Strata Florida, a commission to inquire into the case (8 May 1200). The first two were not inclined to do anything to enhance the credit of their antagonist in the fight for S. Davids, and accordingly the matter got no further. Lawrenny on Milford Haven has a church named after Caradog, and a well near

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