Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BERTIL, PRINCESS LILIAN (DUCHESS OF HALLAND), (1915 - 2013) Swansea battalion of the Welch regiment in World War I and he and his wife separated in the 1920s and divorced in 1939. Gladys was the eldest of the four children at Garden Street in 1911. Lillian's father remarried in 1941 and he and his wife had two daughters. Lillian had a variety of jobs after leaving school aged 14, as a general servant, shop assistant and laundry worker, but then, when she was 16
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author from them in the journal mentioned above, and in his books. He wrote the history of Gyfylchi and Pontrhyd-y-fen chapels (1926), and of Morfa church, Kidwelly (1930); and many of his interesting essays were collected in five volumes: Golud a mawl dyffryn Tywi (1936); Gwrid ar orwel ym Morgannwg (1938); Treftadaeth y Cenfu a Maes Gwenllian (1941); Cwmsêl a Chefn Sidan (1946); and Allt Cunedda
BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere Society (1940 and 1947) formed a basis for the UK method of predicting radio-wave propagation conditions for radiowaves incident obliquely on the ionosphere. He returned to University College of Swansea (1946-58) as Assistant (later Senior) Lecturer in Physics. With Dr. Godfrey Martin Brown as active partner, a group began a study of the ionosphere using the traditional method (since 1941) of making
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author 1940 and 1941. Her first novel, Anesmwyth Hoen (Uneasy Passion), appeared in 1941, the collection of short stories Fy Chwaer Efa (My Sister Eva) in 1944, her second novel Mae'r Galon wrth y Llyw (The Heart is at the Wheel) in 1957, and the late short story collection Cariadau (Kinds of Love) in 1995. Her early work drew attention for its combination of a feminist approach with intense spirituality
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer seemingly impossible task of installing radar in aircraft. The development of aircraft radar to detect and intercept aircraft and also to detect submarines had a major effect on winning the Battle of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic, for which he was appointed OBE (1941) and received the United States Medal for Freedom (1947). In August 1940 Bowen went to the United States of America and Canada as
BOWEN, EMRYS GEORGE (1900 - 1983), geographer development of his work is represented by his three books, The settlements of the Celtic Saints (1954), Saint, seaways and settlements (1969) and Britain and the western seaways (1972). Apart from this specialised field his interests were wide and he wrote on a great range of topics of Welsh interest. Amongst them was his first book, Wales: a study in geography and history which was published in 1941. Again
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter knighted in 1941.
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer , initially with the Royal Fusiliers, 1939-40, and then attaining the rank of Captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1941, serving until the end of hostilities. He stood as the Labour candidate against Sir John Simon (the leader of the National Liberal group of MPs known as Simonites) in the Spen Valley constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the general election of 1935, narrowly missing election
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director Secondary School, he soon switched toteaching English. He stayed at the school until 1945, becoming head of English and the Senior Master. It was here that P. H. Burton taught another collier's son, Richard Jenkins, born in the year that Burton began teaching. Burton produced school plays such as Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart. This 1941 production typifies the teacher's prescience: it was one of the first
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer celebrated producer. He played some hundreds of parts and continued to work until 1968. As a dedicated member of his profession he was for many years one of its leaders, having built up the actors' trade union movement. He spoke fearlessly on the theatre and was elected president of the British Actors' Equity (1941-45), as well as drama director to the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist Cayo Evans was born on 22 April 1937 at Glandenys, Silian, a mansion on the main road two miles west of Lampeter. His father, John Cayo Evans (1879-1958), was Professor of Mathematics at St David's College, Lampeter and he was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1941-42. His mother was Freda Cayo Evans (née Cluneglas) from Cellan, Ceredigion. Cayo Evans was educated at Millfield School in Somerset
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure health service, the court of the National Museum of Wales, and the council of the University College of North Wales, Bangor. During 1939-46 he was active in the work of the War Agricultural Executive Committee in Anglesey. He received a knighthood in 1941. In 1931 he went on a 7000-mile journey through Russia with Frank Owen to capture the atmosphere of the country after the revolution for a novel on

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