Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere Philomusica Orchestra of Aberystwyth. He retired in 1981 as Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of UCW, Aberystwyth, having been Vice-Principal in 1972-74. He married in 1942 Megan Medi, daughter of Arthur and Margaret James at Ebenezer Congregational Chapel, Swansea, and they had two sons and one daughter. He died 11 March 1996, at Aberystwyth.
BLACKWELL, HENRY (1851 - 1928), bookbinder and bookseller, bibliographer and biographer Wales in 1942 under the title A Bibliography of Welsh Americana. The greater part of Blackwell's bibliographical and biographical work is, however, unpublished. The following manuscripts are in the National Library of Wales: (a) 'A Dictionary of Welsh Biography,' (NLW MSS 9251-9277A) forming twenty-seven volumes; (b) 'Cambrian National Bibliography,' in five volumes, (NLW MSS 4565D, NLW MS 4566D, NLW
BOSANQUET family Professor Henry Lewis in 1942 under the title Brut Dingestow. The collection had been originally formed by Sir JOHN BERNARD BOSANQUET (1773 - 1847), judge and man of letters, but passed to his nephew; it was acquired in 1916 by the N.L.W. One of the sons of S. R. Bosanquet (1800 - 1882) was Sir FREDERICK ALBERT BOSANQUET (1837 - 1923), judge of the Central Criminal Court from 1917. A member of the
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor Cerddi Brycheiniog (1912). In 1913 he moved to Horeb chapel, Five Roads, near Llanelli. He was Welsh editor of the Llanelly Mercury between 1915 and 1942, and of Seren yr Ysgol Sul from the same press, 1916-50. He established Urdd y Seren Fore in 1929, and the provision of reading material for children in Welsh was one of his chief aims. He was a member of the Gorsedd of Bards from 1897 until his death
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier , third daughter of Col. Sir Edward Fitzgerald Campbell in 1894. Their only child, a son, died young. Mrs. Bruce died in 1932 and Charles Granville on 12 July 1939. A memorial to him was placed in Abbottabad (Pakistan) church in 1942 by the 5th and 6th Gurkhas.
BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society years later he was elected a Fellow of the college. During his academic career he wrote 58 scientific papers and five important books - Combination of observations (1917), Meteorology (1928), Physical and dynamical meteorology (1934), Weather science for everybody (1936) and Weather study (1942). He was president of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1942-44, and received both their Buchan prize and
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer to parliament by just 600 votes. He won applause for having given the generally unpopular, aloof Simon a bad fright in the election. He was then, under the terms of the wartime electoral truce, elected unopposed as the Labour MP for the Keighley division of the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1942, and was easily re-elected there in the general election of July 1945. Thomas's knowledge of Italian
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director amateur productions of the play in Britain and it included Richard Jenkins who would become the legendary global superstar Richard Burton. He was not, however, P. H. Burton's first or only protégé. For example, Burton nurtured the talent of Thomas Owen Jones (1914-1942), another collier's son. He won a scholarship to RADA then worked with the leading Shakespearean actors of the day at London's Old Vic
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician he succeeded in joining the Royal Navy in 1942. Whilst training for active service, he was found to be suffering from TB and had to spend a period in hospital. After he had completely recovered, he joined the Admiralty Office in Whitehall to do research on Japan and produced a handbook for the navy, The Enemy: Japan. He then served on the ship HMS Activity and was appointed Lieutenant in April 1944
CAMPBELL, RACHEL ELIZABETH (1934 - 2017), teacher and community activist Betty Campbell was born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson on 6 November 1934 at 6 Maria Street, Butetown, Cardiff. Her mother, Honora (née O'Leary), known as Nora, was a Welsh Barbadian and her father, Simon Vickers Johnson (1903-1942), a merchant seaman, had come to the UK from Jamaica when he was fifteen. Her father was killed during the Second World War when his ship was torpedoed. Her mother struggled
CASSON, LEWIS (1875 - 1969), actor and theatrical producer (1942-44). In 1945 he was knighted, and he also received honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow (1954), Wales (1959) and Oxford (1966). He lived at 98 Swan Court, London, but stayed occasionally at his inherited property, Bron-y-garth, Porthmadog, before it was sold in 1949. He died 16 May 1969.
CHARLES, JAMES (1846 - 1920), Independent minister and theologian the editors of Y Dysgedydd from 1918 until his death. He also took part in politics, but his main interest continued to be theology. He published Emanuel, 1890; Esponiad ar Lyfr Amos (a commentary), 1900; Esponiad ar Epistol I Ioan, 1900; Iawn a Thadolaeth (Atonement and Fatherhood), 1905; Agoriad i Ddiwinyddiaeth y Testament Newydd (an introduction to the theology of the N.T.), 1915. In 1942 Y

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