Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRIDGEMAN, GEORGE THOMAS ORLANDO (1823 - 1895), cleric, antiquary and genealogist
BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS (1809 - 1881), portrait painter Born 17 April 1809 at 61 King Street, Carmarthen, son of David and Mary Brigstocke. At 16 he entered Sass's drawing school at 6 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, and subsequently studied under H. P. Briggs and J. P. Knight before spending eight years studying and painting at Paris, Florence, Rome, and Naples. In 1847 he spent some months in Egypt where he painted portraits of Mehemet Ali and his
BROMLEY, HUMPHREY (1796), Unitarian preacher financially by a local shopkeeper named Lloyd. In 1825 and 1826 he preached at the annual meetings of the South Wales Unitarian Association. He emigrated to the United States in 1833 and died there 13 December 1876 (Universalist Register, 1878, p. 86).
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician Beata Brookes was born on 21 January 1930 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, the daughter of George Brookes, a farmer and property developer, and his wife Gwendoline. She attended Lowther College in Abergele and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. She also won an American State Department scholarship to study politics in the USA. This was followed by a brief visit to Australia to study local
BROTHER DAVID - see HUGHES, WILLIAM JOHN
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman organisations that benefited from his support and expertise included the Kidney Research Unit for Wales Foundation and the London Welsh Association. He was awarded a knighthood for his public services in Wales and received an honorary LLD from the University of Wales. His last service to a Welsh cause was the role of chairman of the trust established by Lord Cledwyn to raise a statue of David Lloyd George in
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
BRYNMOR-JONES, DAVID BRYNMOR - see JONES, DAVID BRYNMOR
BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author The only daughter of J. R. Ormsby-Gore (1816 - 1876), 1st baron Harlech. She was first married in 1863 to the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (died 1865); their son, Lloyd, succeeded his grandfather in 1869 as 4th baron Kenyon. Her second marriage in 1880 was to the Reverend Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley-Owen, of Tedsmore, West Felton (died 1910). Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen took an active interest in Welsh cultural
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer published a biography of Lord Gladstone of Hawarden, the son of the famous Prime Minister, in 1936 based on research undertaken while at Hawarden. In 1938 he published his Top Sawyer, the still highly regarded biography of David Davies of Llandinam (1818-1890). In 1930 he had also published Coal in the New Era, his first publication to deal with current affairs. During World War II he served in the army
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher ; two of the daughters were Elizabeth Davis 'of Balaclava ' and Bridget (1795? - 1878), who was maid to lady Llanover in London and at Llanover, and is buried at 'Capel Ed' near Llanover (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, June 1918); they were born at Penrhiw, a farm which Dafydd Cadwaladr rented from the Rev. Simon Lloyd. About 1780 he began preaching. He knew his Bible by heart
CADWALADR, EDWARD (fl. 16th century), poet Two of his poems have been preserved, an englyn in reply to one by David Cadwaladr (Peniarth MS 93 (204)) and a religious poem in free metre (NLW MS 11990A (153)).

Search results

73 - 84 of 1926 for "david lloyd george"