Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, SAMUEL (1799 - 1887) Macclesfield, Independent minister and teacher Born 10 October 1799 in Cilrhedyn parish, Carmarthenshire. His father, David Bowen, Brynchwith, was one of the founders of the Independent church in Blaen-y-coed to which place the family had moved. Samuel was educated at the Carmarthen Grammar School, and in January 1820 was admitted to the Academy at Llanfyllin which moved to Newtown in 1821. When, in 1824, he had completed his course there he
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer Son of a Richard Bradford who lived in Y Pandy, Betws Tir Iarll, Glamorganshire. The tradition in the family was that the Bradfords came to Betws from Bradford-on-Avon during the first half of the 17th century; they bore a coat-of-arms. We know little of John Bradford, but it is evident that he began in his youth to pay attention to the Welsh bardic traditions and to the task of collecting
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter Born in Bruges, Belgium, 12 May 1867, the third son of William Curtis Brangwyn (died 1907 in Cardiff) and Eleanor (née Griffiths) his wife who hailed from Brecon. His father was a church architect and manufactured church furniture in Bruges but the family returned to London in 1875. Frank Brangwyn, who had very little formal education, learnt drawing in South Kensington Museum and entered the
BRAOSE family This powerful Marcher family took its name from Braose, near Falaise, in Normandy. WILLIAM DE BRAOSE, the first of the line in England, was granted the barony of Bramber (Sussex) at the time of the Conquest. He was succeeded by his son PHILIP (c. 1096), who conquered the lordships of Radnor and Builth, acquiring also through his wife the lordship of Totnes (Devon). He supported Henry I against
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
BRIDGEMAN, GEORGE THOMAS ORLANDO (1823 - 1895), cleric, antiquary and genealogist Born 21 August 1823, second son of the 2nd earl of Bradford, a descendant of Sir Orlando Bridgeman (see in D.N.B.), keeper of the seal under Charles II; the family were connected by marriage with Shropshire, and with the Myddelton family of Chirk. Educated at Harrow, and Trinity (Cantab.), where he graduated in 1845, he took orders, became rector in Shropshire, and in 1864 received the family
BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS (1809 - 1881), portrait painter family. He married a widow, a Mrs. Cridland, who predeceased him, as did his only child, who died in infancy. He died 11 March 1881 at 3 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square, London, and was buried at Kensal Green. Brigstocke was known mainly for his portraits of members of well-known South Wales families and of notable military figures, although he also painted historical pictures. He exhibited sixteen
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar government. Rachel spent the first seven years of her life in Egypt. On returning to Britain, Amos became Quain Professor of Jurisprudence at University College London, the third of his line to hold a legal chair. The family were Quakers; after attending schools in Cuckfield in Sussex and Ambleside in Cumbria, Rachel was educated at the Mount, the Quaker school at York. She attended Quaker meetings for as
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician government structures. Throughout her youth Brookes was active in local Conservative politics, and was chair of the Welsh Young Conservatives. She was briefly married to Anthony Arnold, but they divorced in 1963. Beata Brookes had various careers, working on the family farm, as company secretary to a tourism and catering company, and later as a social worker for Denbighshire County Council, and as a TV
BROSTER family, printers Bangor
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, The Broughton family probably originated in and took their name from the township of that name in Cheshire; they first appear on the western side of the Dee in the 16th century, when RALPH BROUGHTON was in possession of Plas Isa, Is-y-coed, Denbighshire. His third son VALENTINE BROUGHTON (died 1603), alderman of Chester, was an early benefactor if not founder of Wrexham grammar school. MORGAN
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Born at Duffryn, Aberdare, 16 April 1815, the second son of John Bruce Pryce by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, rector of S. Peter's, Barbadoes. (The family name was originally Knight, John Bruce Pryce being the son of John Knight of Llanblethian and Margaret, daughter of William Bruce of Cowbridge.) Bruce received his early education at S. Omer, but at the age

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