Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AUBREY, WILLIAM (1759 - 1827), engineer of Tredegar. Superintendent of the steam engines in the Tredegar iron-works. He was one of the pioneers of his craft in South Wales, specializing in the design and construction of all manner of machines powered by steam. As chief assistant to Watkin George, the mineral engineer, he shared the responsibility for the planning and erection, at the Cyfarthfa works, of the largest water system of its
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer in the suppression of Welsh piracy and was privately retained as counsel (much to their advantage) by the Merchant Adventurers. Questions of jurisdiction in Wales, Ireland, and the Channel Islands were among those he resolved in the sphere of constitutional law, and he was brought into even more direct contact with politics when his kinsman and benefactor Henry Herbert, 2nd earl of Pembroke
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, succeeded by his son, JOSEPH HENRY RUSSELL BAILEY (1864 - 1928), 2nd baron Glanusk, 3rd baronet, a major in the Grenadier Guards, and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers; like his father, he was lord-lieutenant of Brecknock.
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic learned Italian, and made the acquaintance of his fellow-countryman Dr. Griffith, confessor to a nunnery at Milan. Obtaining leave to visit his home in 1607, he made over his Herefordshire property (Pembridge) to his nephew Henry Prichard (6 September), and made several converts among his relatives and neighbours, including his sister, wife of William Parry of Llanover (himself a Catholic), who remained
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 Born at Pontnewynydd, Monmouth, 12 May 1860, the son of Henry Ballinger; died at Hawarden, Flintshire, 8 January 1933. He was educated at a school in Canton, Cardiff, and became at 15 an assistant in the Cardiff Public Library, remaining there five years until he became librarian of Doncaster; he returned in 1884 to become chief librarian of Cardiff and to succeed in making it one of the best
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton Hall, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
BARHAM family Trecŵn, On 1 July 1754 at Cheltenham, Dorothea, fourth daughter of John Vaughan of Trecŵn and Joan Corbet his wife, married JOSEPH FOSTER -BARHAM, son of Colonel John Foster (1681 - 1731), of Egham House, Surrey, and Jamaica. He was born 16 December 1729 in Jamaica, where the family had large estates which he inherited. He assumed the surname of his step-father, Dr. Henry Barham, in 1750, and died in
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist landed safely by parachute in Schleswig Holstein, and spent the next years in a succession of prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland. Among those he met was John Buxton captured in Norway who knew Skokholm well having married Marjorie, one of Ronald Lockley's sisters, George Waterston badly injured in Crete and who later was to restore livelihood to Fair Isle, and Peter Conder captured with
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette speaking and other events. As a Welsh speaker, Rachel led a campaign in North Wales in the summer of 1910 during which she was part of a deputation which met with Lloyd George at his house in Cricieth. After arguing hotly with him for two and a half hours she left 'more convinced than before of his determined opposition to the WSPU and the insincerity of his support of the suffrage.' Shortly after this
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea Born 20 May 1874 in India, the son of Henry Clements Barstow, a civil servant, and Cecilia Clementina Baillie. The Barstows were long-established and prominent merchants in York. Following his marriage to the only daughter of Sir Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, George Barstow established a home near Builth and a connection with Wales. Barstow graduated from Emmanuel College
BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author Of Upper Bryn, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire. He was born at Monmouth and christened on 14 June 1814, the only son of George Trotham Baxter (1762-1841) of Hereford, and was a member of an old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newtown. Among his ancestors was Richard Baxter, the famous Presbyterian divine. He entered an Oxford college but did not graduate there. Four of his works are

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