Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, married Elizabeth, countess Bettina, only daughter of Jean Baptiste, Count Metaxa. Crawshay Bailey II left two daughters, (1) Clara, who married William James Gordon Canning, Hartpury Court, Gloucestershire, and (2) Augusta Emily, who married William Carne Curre, Itton Court, Monmouth
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, county of Hereford, serving as M.P. until his death in 1850. Joseph Bailey I was succeeded in the baronetcy and the Glanusk estates by his grandson, Sir JOSEPH RUSSELL BAILEY (1840 - 1906), 2nd baronet, who was created baron Glanusk, January 1899 [he made important additions to the History of Brecknock (by Theophilus Jones), and these were incorporated in the 3rd (1909-30) edition of that work]; he was
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic asking for English books for his community); and in the course of his researches he made the acquaintance of Selden, who became a 'speciall friend,' Camden, Spelman, and archbishop Ussher. The material he collected, put in order by his friend Fr. John (Leander) Jones and edited by their pupil Clement Rayner, forms an essential source for the history of the English Benedictines. He also left unfinished
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist Although not a Welshwoman - she was the daughter of a clergyman living in the Midlands - Elizabeth Baker spent so much of her life in Merioneth and became so inextricably bound up with the house and household at Hengwrt, near Dolgelley, and its owners, that she merits a note, particularly on account of the diary which she kept. On 25 July 1770, after obtaining, in conjunction with persons called
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer Stanley Baker was born on 28 February 1928 at 32 Albany Street in Ferndale in the Rhondda Fach, Glamorganshire, the youngest of three children of John Henry Baker (1896-1950), a haulier and engineman, and his wife Elizabeth Louisa (née Locke, 1896-1974). He grew up a self-declared 'wild child' who ducked school as often as he could. When Baker's father lost his leg in a mining accident
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales assistance and advice there of such people as James Ifano Jones and Professor Thomas Powel. With the help of Ifano he arranged for publication in 1898 a catalogue of the Welsh and Celtic portions of the contents of the Cardiff Public Library; evidence of Ifano's assistance is also seen in what Ballinger published on Vicar Prichard of Llandovery (1899), the Trevecka printing press (1905), and The Bible in
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer trial, he was chosen to play for Wales against Scotland in February 1890 after the first choice, Tom England of Newport, was injured. Bancroft proceeded to gain 33 caps in consecutive matches between 1890 and 1901, a record which was not broken until 1954, by Ken Jones (Newport). He was an incomparable back with the keen eyes and sure hands of a professional cricketer; he spent long hours perfecting
BARHAM family Trecŵn, - 1878), M.P. for Appleby (1832), J.P. for Pembroke and Westmorland, and M.A., Oxford. He married (1), 1836, Elizabeth Maria (died 1860), daughter of William Boyd Ince of Ince, co. Lancaster, and (2), Ellen Catherine, daughter of E. T. Massey, of Cottesmore, Pembrokeshire From about 1855 it was the Rev. Charles Foster-Barham and his first wife who mainly supported a school (first kept across the
BARKER family, artists Benjamin Barker II, distinguished themselves as landscape and subject painters, whilst the sons of his son Thomas, viz. Thomas Jones Barker and JOHN JONES BARKER were also artists. THOMAS BARKER (1769 - 1847), landscape and subject painter Art and Architecture Son of Benjamin Barker of Pontypool, was born at Trosnant, Pontypool, 1769, and displayed a talent for drawing when very young. He settled at Sion
BARKER, THOMAS WILLIAM (1861 - 1912), registrar of the diocese of S. Davids Born 12 May 1861 at Carmarthen, son of J. H. Barker, a local solicitor, who himself served as clerk of the peace for Carmarthen borough and registrar of the diocese of S. Davids. He was educated at the Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Carmarthen, and at Harrow. Qualifying as a solicitor he became a member of the firm of Barker, Morris, and Barker, with his father as senior partner. He was
BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Born at S. Asaph, where he served as a schoolmaster. According to Josiah Thomas Jones in his Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru, he became a Methodist and lived for many years in Montgomeryshire, where he welcomed itinerant preachers to his house. Two of his carols, a song against drunkenness and another against worldly desires, are printed in Cyfaill i'r Cymro, collected by William Hope of
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

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