Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOYDELL, JOSIAH (1752 - 1817), painter and illustrator Born at the Manor House, Hawarden, Flintshire, 18 January 1752, nephew of John Boydell, engraver and printseller, London. Josiah was taken to London by his uncle and received training from him and Richard Earlom; afterwards young Boydell and Joseph Farrington were engaged by the uncle to make drawings for the engravers from pictures in the Houghton Collection before they were removed to the
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. conflict. This antagonism led to successful legal proceedings for libel being taken by Abraham against Brace. At the conclusion of the miners' strike of 1898, however, the South Wales Miners' Federation was formed, with Abraham as president and Brace as vice-president of the executive council. In 1899 Brace, along with Abraham and John Williams, attended the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of
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
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian Justice of the Peace, as high sheriff, and deputy-lieutenant of his county, as a prominent member of the Court and Council of the National Library and of the Court of the National Museum of Wales, and as a member of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales, and of the Order of S. John of Jerusalem, etc. But it is as the historian of Monmouthshire and the editor of much other material for the
BRAOSE family Richard I to Normandy in 1195. He supported John's claim to the throne, witnessing various royal grants, and he was in attendance on John in Normandy at the time of Arthur's death (1203). He also served in the French war of 1204. He was high in John's favour and acquired vast possessions, being granted the right to conquer territories from the Welsh (1200). He seized Elfael (1191) and in 1196 acquired
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
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary Born at Carmarthen 13 April 1835, son of John Breese, Congregational minister, and Margaret, daughter of David Williams of Saethon in Llŷn. His father's death in 1842 threw him upon the care of his mother's kindred, who were influential in south Caernarvonshire. In particular, his uncle, David Williams of Bron Eryri already far advanced in a prosperous career as lawyer and politician, was able to
BREESE, JOHN (1789 - 1842), Independent minister Born at Llanbrynmair, September 1789. In his younger days he was almost entirely dependent on the Sunday school for his education. At the age of 20 he was admitted a full member of the church in the Old Chapel, then under the ministry of John Roberts (1767 - 1834), and when he was 24 he was invited to start preaching. His friends helped him to go to a school in Shrewsbury, after which he was
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
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician the disabled and various other health organisations in Clwyd. She also chaired the Welsh Consumer Council. She was awarded a CBE in 1996. Brookes remained active in Conservative politics after her time as MEP, and was the chair of the Welsh Conservative Party in the 1990s. She supported John Major in 1993 at a time when he was losing the support of the core party. Her later years were marked by
BROSTER family, printers Bangor PETER BROSTER printed an edition of Y Llyfr Plygain at Chester in 1783. In 1807 JOHN BROSTER started in business at Bangor; he was probably the John Broster who had been apprenticed to W. C. Jones, printer, Chester. John Broster's son, CHARLES BROSTER, was owner, publisher, and printer in 1817 of The North Wales Gazette, a newspaper of which the first number had been produced at Bangor on 5
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

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