Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ABDUL-HAMID, SHEIKH (1900 - 1944), architect and Muslim leader also a regular visitor to Colwyn Bay Cricket Club. While in Rhyl he took the initiative to organize Eid prayers. On the morning of 9 January 1941, Muslims and non-Muslims gathered in Nant House, Prestatyn. The guest of honour was the dethroned monarch Prince Mohammed Hasan Mirza of Persia, heir of the Qajar Dynasty which had ruled Iran from 1789 to 1925. This event in Prestatyn would be the last Eid
AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader native Yemen, though very few details of his travels are available. We know that in January 1941, the Bute Street properties were bombed during a German bombing raid, and it was his deputy, Sheikh Hassan Ismail, who was leading the prayers at the time. Miraculously, as covered in both regional and international press, all the worshippers survived. In 1943, a temporary mosque was opened on the site of
ANTHONY, WILLIAM TREVOR (1912 - 1984), singer King's Cross chapel in London. He married in 1941 Olga Bonnell, daughter of Tom Bonnell, a well known Rhondda singer, and they had one son, Robert. She died in 1978. Trevor Anthony died on 1 August 1984 and his funeral was held in London on 8 August. He was buried with his wife in Mortlake Cemetery.
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth article on 'Thomas Gwynn Jones,' he corrected and added new facts. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1941-1950 (1970) has a contribution by Arthur ap Gwynn and his brother in law, Francis Wynn Jones on Thomas Gwynn Jones. The English version appeared in 2001 in The Dictionary of Welsh Biography 1941-1970. In 1972 Arthur ap Gwynn was responsible for reprinting Y Dwymyn 1934-35, a reprint with preface by Arthur ap
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge successful practice in common law and commercial actions; he was judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court with a knighthood in 1913, and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1919. He served on many important bodies in connection with World War I (see Who was Who, 1941-50). He was chairman of the Irish Deportees Compensation Tribunal and of the Committee on Crime and Insanity, 1924; and president of the
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge dissenting opinion in the Liversidge v. Anderson case (1941) defending subjects' rights in the face of official intervention. Besides his various judicial duties, Atkin served on several important bodies in connection with World War I - including as chair of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry and of the Termination of the War Committee. From 1924 he chaired the Irish Deportees Compensation
AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN (1888 - 1969), politician, local historian and author Borough Council in 1931, and became an alderman in 1939; he held his seat until he resigned in November 1945, having served as mayor of Barry in 1941-42. He also served as Port Labour Inspector, South Wales Ports, during 1941-42. In March 1937 he was made a J.P. for Glamorganshire. He also became Deputy Sheriff for the county and in 1951 was elevated chairman of Glamorgan magistrates. In the 1945
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer July 1966. He married Joan Sutton (born 1923), a county athlete, at a quiet wedding in Portsmouth in 1941. They had one daughter, Sandra, (born 1942), who was born at Gosport, Hampshire. The family subsequently lived in the Palmers Green area of north London at 216, Winchmore Hill Road, before moving in 1971 to 68 Park Drive, also in Winchmore Hill. Walley Barnes died in a London hospital on 4
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the three responsible for the fire. In 1940, he married Ruth Byass who supported him loyally in all his many activities and enterprises. They had four children, Jane born in 1941, Michael in 1942, Richard in 1946 and Robert in 1951. In September 1941 the now Squadron Leader Barrett was posted to Linton, near York to the first Halifax squadron only to be shot down on his first flight over Germany. He
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player winning Junior Wimbledon, and the French and Belgian under 18 championships. He would soon develop into the most successful tennis player to come from Wales. Although he was described by Jack Kramer, the former Wimbledon champion and BBC television commentator in 1968 as 'awfully good', perhaps Battrick did not really achieve his full potential. He lived in the shadow of Roger Taylor (born 1941) and
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician felt by the author. In three books which deal with the Welsh countryside when emigration to America was common the historian gave rein to his imagination. Y Baradwys Bell (1941) is an imaginary diary for the year 1841 kept by one of the author's ancestors, and Gadael tir (1948) is the story of the same man, again in diary form, until his departure for America in 1847. In both books use is made of
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors of Hackwood Park, Basingstoke in 1941. He died 15 June 1954 in Southampton; a tablet has been placed in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral in memory of him. JAMES GOMER BERRY, 1st Viscount KEMSLEY (1883 - 1968), newspaper proprietor Business and IndustryPrinting and Publishing; the youngest son, born 7 May 1883. He was educated at Abermorlais school and was one of the first pupils to enter Merthyr

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