Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
BRUCE, WILLIAM NAPIER (1858 - 1936), educationalist and lawyer Second son of the 1st lord Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, and Nora, daughter of Sir William Napier. He was born 18 January 1858 at Duffryn, Aberdare. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated (1880) in the Honour School of 'Litterae Humaniores. ' In 1883 he was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn and three years later entered upon his long career as an assistant
BULKELEY family right; early in the 16th century the Bulkeleys of Porthamel, who came to an inglorious end when Francis Bulkeley shot himself at Plas Llangefni in 1714, and the Bulkeleys of Gronant and Dronwy, the second being represented in later days by Sir John Bulkeley of Presaddfed, whose widow married the Rev. John Elias; later in the century branched out the Bulkeleys of Brynddu, of whom William, the diarist
BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691 - 1760), squire and diarist Catherine £550 within a year. Some have said that he had Methodist leanings, and that he wrote a pamphlet to support their tenets. Bulkeley was assuredly no Methodist, and that pamphlet has not yet been discovered. It is true he gave harbourage in 1749 to William Prichard, one of the sturdy pioneers of Nonconformity in the island of Anglesey; but there is no proof that he sympathized in the slightest with
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director P. H. Burton was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 30 November 1904. His parents were Emma Matilda Burton (née Mears, died 1934) and her second husband, Henry Burton (died 1919), a collier, originally from a middle class Staffordshire family. His mother, a nurse, had moved from Somerset to Mountain Ash as a child. Her son William Wilson (from her first marriage to a Scots collier working in
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), This note will concern itself only with the Welsh associations of this influential family, whose main seat is in the Island of Bute, Scotland. WILLIAM HERBERT (died 1570) The son and heir of Richard Herbert of Ewyas, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, was created baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke in 1551. The Herberts earls of Pembroke (of the second
BYCHEINSHA, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet - see BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM
BYRCHINSHA, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet - see BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM
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, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher great reader and was wont to recite the Bardd Cwsc and the Pilgrim's Progress at the knitting-meetings. After being a farm boy in several places, he became (c. 1771) a servant at Fedw Arian, Bala, under the preacher William Evans, who had already attracted him to Methodism. About 1777 he married Judith Humphreys (or ' Erasmus '; she died c. 1795-6). Of his nine children, the four sons died before him
CADWGAN (d. 1111), prince the reign of William Rufus, defeating the Normans in 1094 at the battle of Coed Yspwys (its site is unknown) and joining Gruffudd ap Cynan in the defence of Anglesey and the flight to Ireland of 1098. When better conditions enabled the two to return to Wales in 1099, Cadwgan received from earl Robert of Shrewsbury in vassalage his share of Powys and, therewith, Ceredigion. He allowed himself to be
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters He is best known from the reference at the end of 'The History of the Kings of Britain' by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Writing about 1135, Geoffrey allows Caradog to use as literary material the story of the kings who ruled in Wales after 689, when he closes his detailed narrative, and similarly gives leave to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon to recite the history of the English kings. The

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