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  • BEVAN, ANEURIN (1897 - 1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State of the same year because of a disagreement with Hugh Giatskell over the intention to start levying charges in the health service. He assembled around him a number of M.P.'s who stood to the left in the political spectrum and who became known as ' Bevanites '. He remained popular amongst the electorate and the membership of the Constituency Labour Parties in the country, and he was still a member of
  • BEVAN, THOMAS (Caradawc, Caradawc y Fenni; 1802 - 1882), antiquary in the shop at the Clydach works, Brecknock (generally known as the Llanelly works). There he met several Welshmen who were interested in Welsh literature and the eisteddfod - David Lewis (son of the Rev. James Lewis, of Llanwenarth), Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morganwg), and John Morgan, the 'Rhifyddwr Egwan' of Seren Gomer. He owed much, however, of his knowledge of literary style to the
  • BEYNON, ROBERT (1881 - 1953), minister (Presb.), poet and essayist Born 8 October 1881 in The Office, Pontyberem, Carmarthenshire, son of Thomas and Anne Beynon. He began preaching in Soar chapel, and was educated for the ministry in Watcyn Wyn's school (Watkin Hezekiah Williams) in Ammanford; Pontypridd school; University College, Cardiff (where he graduated B.A.); and the Theological College, Aberystwyth. He was ordained in 1911, and was pastor of Carmel
  • BEYNON, ROSSER (Asaph Glan Tâf; 1811 - 1876), musician Born at Glyn Eithinog in the Vale of Neath, Glamorganshire, son of John and Elizabeth Beynon. The family moved in 1815 to Merthyr Tydfil where the son went to a school kept by George Williams, but only for a short period, as he started work when he was 8 years of age in an iron-works where, later, he was to become an important official. He showed an interest in music at an early age and in 1835
  • BLACKWELL, HENRY (1851 - 1928), bookbinder and bookseller, bibliographer and biographer the Welsh Language published in the United States'), Y Drych, The Druid, The Cambrian, 1882, and 1884 (a catalogue of his library of books in the English language relating to Wales and the Welsh), and Old Brecknock Chips, 1886 ('Brecknockshire authors and books printed in Brecknockshire'). He had proposed to issue in 1886 an American edition of Jane Williams: A History of Wales… (London, 1869
  • BLAKE, LOIS (1890 - 1974), historian and promoter of Welsh folk dancing people were aware of the wealth of dances that Wales possessed. Lois Blake was an enthusiastic member of the EFDSS (The English Folk Dance and Song Society), and on moving to Wales she intended to add Welsh folk dances to her repertoire. To her utter disappointment no-one, apart from the Romanies, were either aware of or practised our dances. With the encouragement of Mr David Williams, headmaster of
  • BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, The Bodvel s, who trace their descent from Collwyn ap Tangno, first come into public notice with JOHN WYN ap HUGH of Bodvel (died 1576), who bore the royal standard for Warwick (later Northumberland) against the Norfolk rebels (1549), and was rewarded with the grant of Bardsey Island, which he was alleged in 1569 to be using as the headquarters of a highly-organized nest of pirates. His son HUGH
  • BODVEL, HUGH (d. 1611), M.P. - see BODFEL
  • BODWRDA family Bodwrda, An old Caernarvonshire family, descended from Trahaearn Goch, lord of Cymydmaen. The surname was adopted by HUGH GWYN, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1605 (son of John Wyn, sheriff 1584). Of his twelve children, the eldest, JOHN BODWRDA (died 1648?), was sheriff in 1629, and may have been the John Bodwrda 'secured' by the then sheriff (Sir T. Cheadle) for supposed Roundhead sympathies on the
  • BOLD, HUGH (1731 - 1809), lawyer The Bold's appear to have been blacksmiths who lived and worked in a village outside Brecon, and the father of Hugh Bold was ' trumpeter to the Corporation of Brecon.' Hugh Bold became a lawyer's clerk at the Brecon office of John Philipps (of Tre-gaer near Llanfrynach - see Theophilus Jones, IV, 37), married his employer's daughter, and eventually succeeded him in the business. In this way he
  • BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
  • BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician Hugh Gaitskell emerged as the clear winner, obtaining more votes than Aneurin Bevan and Herbert Morrison combined. Bowden was close to Gaitskell during the seven years that the latter led the Labour Party and he described the news of Gaitskell's death as the worst moment of his political life. For the second time, Bowden had to arrange the election of a new leader for the Labour Party and he