Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BLAYNEY family Gregynog, The family claimed descent from Brochwel Ysgythrog. The first member of the family about whom there is definite information is EVAN BLAYNEY, whose name appears eighteenth in the roll of burgesses found in the charter of Welshpool, 7 June, 7 Henry IV (1406), where he is described as 'of Tregynon.' His son, GRIFFITH AP EVAN BLAYNEY, is mentioned by the poet Lewis Glyn Cothi. The Gregynog line of
BLIGH, STANLEY PRICE MORGAN (1870 - 1949), landowner and author William Bligh of the ' Bounty ', vice-admiral of the Blue. Stanley Bligh was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Oxford, became a member of the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar in 1895. Until he took over the management of the Cilmeri estate from his mother he practised on the S. Wales circuit. In 1895 he married Matilda Agnes Wilson, daughter of Major John Wilson of the Royal Scots Greys, one
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, Lewis Bayly, bishop of Bangor. Either he or his nephew and namesake (below) was a prolific writer of englynion. HENRY BODWRDA, fourth son, became a Fellow of S. John's and a schoolmaster in England, and shared with his brother William a legacy from the master, Owen Gwyn. GRIFFITH (or GRIFFIN) BODWRDA (1621 - 1679), politician and placeman, was the third son of the above John Bodwrda, and of Margaret
BOOTH, FLORENCE ELEANOR (1861 - 1957), Salvationist and social reformer got off to an enthusiastic start and she gathered the first 120 girls in eight troops at Regent Hall, London. In 1921, she announced the formation of a new junior girls' organization, the Sunbeams, whose ages at that time would be eight or nine. Girls in many countries now benefit from the recreational, service and skill-building projects of these groups. When Commissioner Henry Howard retired as
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 GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian David Bowen was born in Swansea 29 November 1933 where his parents, Henry and Violet (née Beynon) Bowen kept a grocer's shop. He received his early education at Swansea Grammar School (1945-1952) before proceeding to University College, Cardiff, in 1952, where he graduated in 1955 with an honours degree in Hebrew. For the next three years he studied at the Memorial College, Brecon. In Brecon he
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer one of seven members of a mission led by Henry Tizard with information on radar equipment and an early sample of a cavity magnetron recently invented at Birmingham University to develop centimetre-wave radar. He spent two years visiting various laboratories urging the use of shorter wavelengths, and helped to initiate the evolution of microwave radar as a fighting weapon. As a result he collaborated
BRAOSE family This powerful Marcher family took its name from Braose, near Falaise, in Normandy. WILLIAM DE BRAOSE, the first of the line in England, was granted the barony of Bramber (Sussex) at the time of the Conquest. He was succeeded by his son PHILIP (c. 1096), who conquered the lordships of Radnor and Builth, acquiring also through his wife the lordship of Totnes (Devon). He supported Henry I against
BRERETON, ANDREW (or HENRY) JONES (Andreas o Fôn; 1827 - 1885), writer
BRERETON, HENRY JONES - see BRERETON, ANDREW JONES
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician at the Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science. For a brief period, she taught in a secondary school at Dagenham, Essex, and also trained as a nurse at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. At a party given by her only brother at Balliol College, Oxford, she met Henry Brooke, whom she married on 22 April 1933. Barbara Brooke began her political career as a Conservative politician when she won the
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, BROUGHTON (c. 1544 - c. 1614), Ralph Broughton's grandson (and heir to the Plas Isa estate), added to it that of Marchwiel Hall by his marriage to the daughter of Henry Parry of Basingwerk and Marchwiel, and was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1608. His eldest son Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON was knighted in 1618 (18 March). In 1639 (22 January) he was pardoned (on the petition of his wife and the certificate of judge

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