Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS (1809 - 1881), portrait painter
BRISCOE, THOMAS (1813 - 1895), cleric and scholar
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar sit at the feet of Sir Ifor Williams in Bangor, the textual scholar par excellence whom she hero-worshipped, considering him a greater scholar than Chadwick himself. Encouraged by him Rachel began her work on the Triads. On the eve of the war in 1939 Rachel married a brilliant fellow student, John I'A Bromwich, (1915-1990) the son of a distinguished mathematician, Thomas Bromwich (1875-1929) who had
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, Sir Wm. Jones and Sir Thomas Trevor) for abetting murder. On the outbreak of the second bishops' war he tried to get some mitigation of the burdens imposed on Denbighshire (May 1639); and as a commissioner of array for Denbighshire (September 1642) and major in the forces raised in North Wales (November 1643), he was seized in his house by Myddelton's forces (November 1643) on their first invasion
BROWN, JAMES CONWAY (1838 - 1908), musician iron-works, Mon. After attending the Camberwell Collegiate School and King's College, London, he went to the Ebbw Vale iron-works to learn the business of an iron-master under his uncle, Thomas Brown, managing director of those works. He, however, paid more attention to music, taking part in concerts as violinist or pianist; he also played the organ in various places of worship. After becoming an
BULKELEY family town of Caernarvon; by the marriage in 1749 of the 6th viscount to Emma, daughter and heiress of Thomas Rowlands of Caerau, were added the Caerau estate in north-west Anglesey and the Plas-y-nant lands by Betws Garmon that stretched past Rhyd-ddu to the slopes and summit of Snowdon. In the course of years subsidiary families, younger branches, had grown up, quite important entities, in their own
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 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
BURGESS, THOMAS (1756 - 1837), bishop
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 Richard Walter Jenkins was born in Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, on 10 November 1925, the twelfth child of Richard Walter Jenkins (a miner who was fond of his pint) and his wife Edith (née Thomas). Following his mother's death barely two years later, Richard went to live with his eldest sister, Cecilia, in the neighboring village of Taibach. The family was Welsh-speaking and Richard retained
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), Wilton in Wiltshire. After the Restoration their interest and influence in Wales declined. Much of their Welsh property was sold, and the remainder passed to THOMAS, 1st viscount Windsor (1699) and baron Mountjoy (1712), second son of the 1st earl of Plymouth (1682), upon his marriage to Charlotte, the only child of the 7th earl of Pembroke (and Montgomery), and widow of the 2nd baron Jeffreys

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