Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian on 'Y Beirdd Cymreig o William Llŷn hyd at Gwilym Hiraethog'; Caernarvon (1894), Gwaith Iolo Goch (published by the National Eisteddfod Association, 1896). Ashton also published Traethawd or Ffeiriau Cymru (Llanelli, 1881), Bywyd ac Amserau'r Esgob Morgan (Treherbert, 1891), A Guide to Dinas Mawddwy (Aberystwyth, 1893), and a Welsh translation, entitled Y Ddirprwyaeth Dirol Gymreig. Crynhodeb o
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge not sufficient means was passed; it is to him that we owe the general sympathy which this movement received. He was made a member of the Privy Council in 1919, and created baron in 1928; he was elected F.B.A. in 1938. He married Lucy Elizabeth (died 1939), the eldest daughter of William Hemmant, Bulimba, Sevenoaks, formerly colonial treasurer, Queensland. Atkin lived for many years at Craig-y-don
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge to obtain briefs connected with the broking firms and Stock Exchange. The success of his commercial law practice reflects the influence during his pupillage of his master Thomas Edward Scrutton; eventually both men were sat together in the Court of Appeal. After more than twenty years practice as a barrister, Atkin became a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court in 1913 and was
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales , David Llewelyn Mort. He did well, coming third out of six, saving his deposit, and receiving 8% of the vote, more than the Communist and Plaid Cymru candidates together. The result was as follows: Neil McBride (Labour), 18,909; R. Owens (Liberal) 4,895; Reverend Leon Atkin (People's Party), 2,464: Miss A. P. Thomas (Conservative), 2,272; E. Chris Rees (Plaid Cymru), 1,620; Bert Pearce (Communist Party
AUBREY, THOMAS (1808 - 1867), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 13 May 1808 at Cefncoedcymer, the eldest child of Thomas and Anne Aubrey. He began to preach before attaining the age of 15, and in 1826 was accepted into the Wesleyan Methodist ministry. He 'travelled' extensively on North Wales circuits, in London, Liverpool, and Merthyr Tydfil between 1826 and 1865, when he became a supernumerary. From 1854 to 1865 he was chairman of the North Wales
AUBREY, WILLIAM (1759 - 1827), engineer
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref, Brecknock. He is said to have been educated at Christ College, Brecon, whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford, taking his B.C.L. in 1549, his doctorate in 1554, becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn Hall. He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law, but Strype's conjecture
AUBREY, WILLIAM - see AWBREY, WILLIAM
AUGUSTUS, WILLIAM, a prescientific weather forecaster and translator (within the hour, it is said) the onset of rain, frost, gales, or thunderstorms. William Augustus would appear to be in the succession of the ancient Greek meteorologists, and, as the title of his work indicates, he writes (as they did) primarily for the husbandman, who from primitive times belonged to the class most likely to be directly concerned with weather prognostication.
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors , ANTHONY BACON II, when of age, was to receive the Cyfarthfa estate; THOMAS was to receive the Plymouth furnace, etc. The Hirwaun furnace and collieries became the joint property of Anthony II and Thomas, while ROBERT, it seems, had the mines, etc., at Workington. ELIZABETH was to receive a clear annuity of £300 when she became 21. WILLIAM, then a baby, was to receive the remainder of the trust funds
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, that it was his cousin William Crawshay I, of London, the then proprietor of Cyfarthfa, who prevented Crawshay Bailey from continuing in possession. It was Crawshay Bailey who constructed the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg, and this appears to confirm the tradition that he was connected with the Rhymney iron-works. During 1835, when the Calvinistic Methodist Association of South Wales held its

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