Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
BROWN, AMOS WILLIAM (1860 - 1956), collier and sportsman . Wilcox in 1902, and they had one son, Amos William Brown (b. 1902) who was killed in Mardy Colliery in 1916. Amos also had children with Letaress E. Thomas whom he married in 1927 following the death of Jennet in 1926. Together they raised Harry Thomas Brown (1910-1960), Doris H. E. Brown (1914-2003), Beatrice M. Brown (1915-1946), George M. S. Brown (1918-2006) and David William John Saunders (1926
BROWN, JOHN (d. 1847), printer - see BROSTER
BROWN, MIA ARNESBY (1867 - 1931), artist is now in the National Museum of Wales. She married, 1896, Sir John Arnesby Brown, R.A., artist. She died in 1931, aged 64.
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier ) in 1922 when (General) John Geoffrey Bruce (born 4 December 1896, his cousin, son of Sir Gerald Trevor Knight-Bruce of St. Hilary, Glamorganshire) broke the world record with an ascent of 8,300 metres, and in 1924 when Mallory and Irvine were lost on the final slopes. Bruce himself was unable to climb to great heights by now but according to Longstaff he was an 'ideal leader'. In his time technical
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, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman , led by Lord Aberdare, was heavily involved in a programme to convert many football grounds to seats only stadiums. On occasion, during debates in the House of Lords, Lord Aberdare would refer to another member as a 'fellow-Welshman'; he was proud to call himself a Welshman and he made a number of varied contributions to Welsh public life. He was an active member of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem
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
BRYAN, JOHN (1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister experience of conversion in December 1798 and joined the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists at Chester, but he soon transferred his membership to the Octagon, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the city. In February 1800 he began to preach as a local preacher, and during the next eighteen months he gave useful assistance to Owen Davies and John Hughes, the two missionaries appointed by the Methodist conference to
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer this family claim notice. The eldest of the brothers, JOHN DAVIES (died 13 November 1888), founded a small shop in Cairo in 1886 and was soon joined by the second brother, Joseph Davies (below), and in 1888 by the third, EDWARD DAVIES (died 1929). The firm prospered exceedingly, eventually owning large stores in Cairo and Alexandria, with branches in Port Said and Khartoum; it was so widely trusted
BRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist

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