Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, BEN (1878 - 1903), student and poet The sixth child of Thomas and Dinah Bowen, Treorchy, Rhondda, he was educated at Treorchy Board School, Pontypridd Collegiate School, and Cardiff University College. As a young coal miner he was precociously interested in poetry under the influence of local literary societies, eisteddfodau, and the writings of D. W. Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) in The South Wales Weekly News and Thomas Williams
BOWEN, D.E. (fl. 1840-80), editor, author and Baptist minister in U.S.A. published The Berean; or Miscellaneous Writings of the Reverend D.E. Bowen, Carbondale, Pa. (Carbondale, n.d.); a Lecture on the Life and Genius of the Reverend John Williams, Senior Pastor of the Oliver Street Baptist Church, New York (New York, n.d.).
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer was impossible in Wales, he provided facts that misproved their claims and Wales had its radio system. He married Enid Vesta Williams of Neath in 1938 and they had three sons. He died 12 August 1991 at Ashley House Nursing Home, Chatswood, Sydney, Australia and his funeral was held in Northern Suburbs crematorium 16 August.
BOWEN, IVOR (1862 - 1934), K.C., county court judge . His publications include The Statutes of Wales, 1908, The Great Enclosures of Common Lands in Wales, 1914, ' John Williams of Gloddaeth, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1927-8) and ' Grand Juries, Justices of the Peace and Quarter Sessions in Wales ' (The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion 1933-4). He left in
BOWND, WILLIAM, Arminian Baptist He lived at Garth Fawr in the parish of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, but worshipped with the Arminian Baptists of Radnorshire. There is no record of his having received a stipend for his ministry after 1658. He debated publicly with Alexander Parker and John Moon, the Quakers, at Scurwy, a farm near Rhayader (see the article on HUGH EVANS (? - 1656). After his early death his widow married William
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. conflict. This antagonism led to successful legal proceedings for libel being taken by Abraham against Brace. At the conclusion of the miners' strike of 1898, however, the South Wales Miners' Federation was formed, with Abraham as president and Brace as vice-president of the executive council. In 1899 Brace, along with Abraham and John Williams, attended the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of
BRAOSE family on his daughter Aline and her husband, John de Mowbray (married at Swansea, 1298). Hugh le Despenser, lord of Glamorgan and king's chamberlain, aiming to acquire Gower for himself, endeavoured to secure the confiscation of the lordship to the Crown, asserting that William had alienated his lordship without the consent of the Crown. This called forth an attack on Despenser by the Marcher lords, who
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary Born at Carmarthen 13 April 1835, son of John Breese, Congregational minister, and Margaret, daughter of David Williams of Saethon in Llŷn. His father's death in 1842 threw him upon the care of his mother's kindred, who were influential in south Caernarvonshire. In particular, his uncle, David Williams of Bron Eryri already far advanced in a prosperous career as lawyer and politician, was able to
BREESE, JOHN (1789 - 1842), Independent minister many occasions walked to and from Manchester to minister to the church at that place. He became famous throughout the length and breadth of Wales as a preacher - so much so that, during this period, he and William Williams (1781 - 1840) were the preachers mostly in demand at preaching assemblies. In 1835 he moved to Carmarthen to take charge of the church in Lammas Street, but shortly afterwards his
BREWER, JEHOIADA (1752? - 1817), Independent minister and hymn-writer minister of Carr's Lane chapel, Birmingham, in succession to Dr. Edward Williams of Rotherham; but in 1802 accompanied a secession thence to Livery Street. He died 24 August 1817 while a large new chapel in Steelhouse Lane was being built for him. Some of his sermons were published, and several of his hymns, e.g. ' Hiding Place ' and ' Star of Bethlehem ' (translated into Welsh), became very popular.
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar sit at the feet of Sir Ifor Williams in Bangor, the textual scholar par excellence whom she hero-worshipped, considering him a greater scholar than Chadwick himself. Encouraged by him Rachel began her work on the Triads. On the eve of the war in 1939 Rachel married a brilliant fellow student, John I'A Bromwich, (1915-1990) the son of a distinguished mathematician, Thomas Bromwich (1875-1929) who had

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