Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BROWN, AMOS WILLIAM (1860 - 1956), collier and sportsman -2016) whom they adopted. Amos Brown was particularly fond of cycling and sprinting and was well known for running races in Abercynon, where he lived with his second wife and children. In his later years he was the subject of a short silent film made in by local film maker Evan Owen Jones (1905-1988), showing him looking after his pigs, and is also seen sprinting in another of Jones's films. Amos
BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society Born 17 June 1886 at Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, the youngest of the five sons and four daughters of John Brunt, a farm worker, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. Up to the age of ten David was a pupil at the village school, then in the charge of a single teacher who gave all his instruction in Welsh. In 1896 John Brunt moved his family to the south Wales coalfield where he subsequently worked as a
BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author Born 12 January 1764, son of Harford Jones, Presteign, Radnorshire, and Winifred, daughter of Richard Hooper, The Whittern, Herefordshire. The son assumed, 4 May 1826, the additional surname of Brydges. The career of Harford Jones (Brydges) is described in D.N.B.; only a brief mention is, therefore, necessary here. Early in life he entered the service of the East India Company. He became
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer He was born in Station Road, Brynaman, on 29 March 1934, the son of John Jones, a cobbler, and his wife Elizabeth (née Austin). His registered name was Delme Jones; the hyphenated 'Bryn' (derived from the opening syllable of his birthplace) was prefixed to his surname in later life. He was educated at Brynaman Primary School and at Ammanford Technical College. On leaving the College he worked as
BRYNMOR-JONES, DAVID BRYNMOR - see JONES, DAVID BRYNMOR
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer He was born in notably humble circumstances at Cwmbran on 30 November 1905, the son of Alfred Ernest Thomas (1876-1918), a local brick drawer, and his wife Zipporah Jones (died 1954), a domestic servant. He added 'Bulmer' (his second wife's maiden name) to his surname by deed poll in 1952. He was educated at Jones's West Monmouth School, Pontypool, St John's College, Oxford (where he was a
BURTON, IAN HAMILTON (Archimandrite Barnabas) (1915 - 1996), Orthodox priest Ian Burton was born on 3 September 1915 in Pennal, Meirionethshire, the second of four children of Peter Jones Burton (1883-1956), a stonemason, and his wife Margaret (née Latham, b. 1878). He first language was Welsh, and he spoke little English in his early years. He attended the village school, before passing the scholarship examination to go to Tywyn Grammar School. Following a dispute with
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director amateur productions of the play in Britain and it included Richard Jenkins who would become the legendary global superstar Richard Burton. He was not, however, P. H. Burton's first or only protégé. For example, Burton nurtured the talent of Thomas Owen Jones (1914-1942), another collier's son. He won a scholarship to RADA then worked with the leading Shakespearean actors of the day at London's Old Vic
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor British films, and he had his first taste of acting on Broadway, but his career took off after he excelled in Shakespearean plays on the Stratford stage over the summer of 1951, in particular when he took the roles of Prince Hal and King Henry V (acting alongside Hugh Griffith). Richard accepted a contract with Twentieth Century Fox which allowed him enough freedom to pursue two parallel careers: one in
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet poem on the death of Thomas Jones, astronomer, of Corwen. He himself died in the following year, 1690 (Llanstephan MS 15 (34)). Much of his work is extant; it includes twenty-four englynion, translations from Horace and Seneca, and a poem on the death of John Hookes of Conway, ascribed to the poet, but said to have been written on behalf of William Fychan.
CADWALADR, ROGER (1566 - 1610), seminary priest and martyr . Robert Jones, the day he was condemned to death. It was Fr. Jones who wrote, in Italian, an account of his execution at Leominster, 27 August 1610.
CAMPBELL, RACHEL ELIZABETH (1934 - 2017), teacher and community activist died at the age of eighty-two on 13 October 2017. Hundreds of people lined the streets of Cardiff to pay their respects. She had touched many lives and inspired so many. The First Minister of Wales Carwyn Jones described her as 'a true pioneer' and an 'inspiration to other black and ethnic minority people'. In 2019 BBC Wales held a public vote to decide who should be the subject of Cardiff's first

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