Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to set up a Radiation Laboratory in 1943 and wrote the first draft specification for the system. In 1943 he was invited to join the Radiophysics Laboratory of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia. He arrived at Sydney on 1 January 1944, and became Chief of the Division of Radiophysics in Sydney in
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal lecturers, 27 September 1928 and he graduated B.A. with first-class hons. in philosophy in 1932 and B.D. in 1935 with Church History and Christian Doctrine as his main subjects. He was ordained in Soar, Cwmclydach, Rhondda, 12 September 1935 and was subsequently minister of three very different pastorates, in Cwmclydach, 1935-39, at the Borough, London (1939-43) and Ebeneser, Bangor (1943-46). He married
BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author Oxford, and in 1832 a privy councillor. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Gott, Newland Park, Buckinghamshire. He died 17 March 1847 at Boultibrook, near Presteign, a house whence (in 1923) some Boultibrook manuscripts came to the National Library of Wales (now NLW MSS 4901-12), to be supplemented (in 1943) by a very large group of Harford Jones and Harford Jones Brydges papers which came from
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor his facility in Welsh all his life. There he received a decent education in the local primary school and Port Talbot grammar school (until he was 16), where he came to the attention of the schoolmaster Philip Burton, an inspirational teacher of English who had the ability to pass on his passion for drama to his pupils. Burton was made Richard's guardian in 1943 and the youngster took on his surname
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician became the leader of the Labour Party in the House of Lords, Julia (b. 1943) and Michael (b. 1946). Within a year Callaghan was secretary of his union, and in 1932 he succeeded in the examination to become an Inspector of Taxes. He was elected secretary of the union for the County of Kent, and in 1934 he was promoted to the head office of the Income Tax in London. As a result of the amalgamation of two
CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer of Cardiff, 1939; Historic Melingriffith, 1940; The Government of Wales, 1943; Wake up, Wales, a Survey of Home Rule Activities, 1943; Cardiff's Civic Centre, a Historical Guide, 1946. He married Alice, daughter of Caleb Thomas, Ystalyfera, and they had one son. Chapell died 26 August 1949 at Cardiff.
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer . Davies was minister. After following the preparatory course at Coleg Myrddin, he was accepted, in October 1943, to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen. In 1948, he gained his B.A. with honours in Philosophy from the University College, Cardiff, and his B.D., in 1951, from Carmarthen College, with honours in the Philosophy of Religion. He accepted a call to be minister of the church at Ebeneser
DANIEL, GWYNFRYN MORGAN (1904 - 1960), educationalist and language campaigner -speaking community of Cardiff. At that centre he worked with teachers, parents and ministers of religion to establish a Welsh-medium school. As part of that campaign, a voluntary Saturday Morning School was established in 1943 and Gwyn Daniel was one of the teachers. In 1949, following a long campaign, Cardiff Education Committee opened a Welsh-medium primary school in two classrooms at Ninian Park
DANIEL, JOHN EDWARD (1902 - 1962), college lecturer and inspector of schools stood as a candidate in four general elections. He was a vice-chairman of the party from 1931 to 1935 and he followed Saunders Lewis as its chairman in 1939 and held the office until August 1943. Daniel was notable for his broad culture, his exceptionally brilliant mind and the strength and richness of his grasp of the Welsh language, both orally and in writing, his zeal for everything that was good
DANIEL, WILLIAM RAYMOND (1928 - 1997), association football player Swansea Town, and in October 1946 signed professional forms with Arsenal, with whom his elder brother 'Bobby' Robert Norman Victor Daniel (1922-1943), had also played before he was tragically killed in action with the Royal Air Force in the Second World War. Ray Daniel completed his national service between 1947 and 1949, and made his first team debut for Arsenal on 7 May 1949 in the final game of the
DAVIES, ALUN TALFAN (1913 - 2000), barrister, judge, politician, publisher and businessman candidate in the 1943 University of Wales parliamentary by-election, coming third behind the successful Liberal candidate W. J. Gruffydd and Saunders Lewis. He tried unsuccessfully to get the Liberal nomination for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945. In the October 1959 and 1964 general elections he was the Liberal candidate for Carmarthenshire, but the sitting Labour MP Lady Megan Lloyd
DAVIES, ANEIRIN TALFAN (1909 - 1980), poet, literary critic, broadcaster and publisher Parry and Waldo Williams. On 1 June 1936 he married Mary Anne Evans (1912-1971), a teacher from Barry, and they had two sons, Owen (born 1938) and Geraint (born 1943), and one daughter, Elinor (born 1946). He left London in 1937, and opened a pharmacist's shop at 9 Heathfield Road, Swansea. His name, Aneirin Davies, was prominent on the shop-front, with 'Aneirin ap Talfan' in brackets below, and the

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