Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician but it was in Canada he settled for three years, developing and managing a large shipbuilding yard in New Brunswick. On his return to Wales he decided to set up business in Cardiff with his younger brother James Sydney (1824-1915) as Batchelor Brothers, timber merchants and shipbuilders, on the bank of the River Taff in 1843. It was then began the series of events that saw John Batchelor become a
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player county tennis player with whom he had one son James 'Jamie' Edward (1974) and a daughter Amanda Jane (1979). In 1972 Battrick was caught up in the amateur / professional controversy that split the tennis world after he had turned professional and joined the circuit of Texan millionaire and sports promoter Lamar Hunt. But once that dispute was finally resolved Battrick returned to play at Wimbledon and
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer and great inconsistency; though chaplain to James I, he spoke indiscreet words against Roman Catholics and the Spanish match, and for a short time actually found himself within the walls of the Fleet prison; but having regained the King's favour he became a target for Puritan attack in both Lords and Commons, charged with using unnecessarily strong words and promoting unworthy incumbents: however
BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors loan of £100 from his elder brother, he started an entirely new periodical, Advertising World. He then asked his younger brother, JAMES GOMER BERRY, to come to assist him with the second issue, thus starting a partnership which lasted over 35 years. Four years later the periodical was sold to enable them to set up a small publishing company, Ewart, Seymour and Co., Ltd.; they also acquired their
BERRY, JAMES GOMER - see BERRY
BEVAN, ANEURIN (1897 - 1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State Spokesman on colonial affairs and foreign policy. In 1959 he accompanied Gaitskell to Moscow, and in October of the same year he was elected deputy leader of the Labour Party as successor to James Griffiths. By this time his speeches in the Commons and his attitude in general were much less abrasive. Bevan published a large number of pamphlets and articles, especially in Tribune, and his book In place 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, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere Philomusica Orchestra of Aberystwyth. He retired in 1981 as Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow of UCW, Aberystwyth, having been Vice-Principal in 1972-74. He married in 1942 Megan Medi, daughter of Arthur and Margaret James at Ebenezer Congregational Chapel, Swansea, and they had two sons and one daughter. He died 11 March 1996, at Aberystwyth.
BIRCH, JAMES (d. 1795?), watchmaker and sectary
BLAKE, LOIS (1890 - 1974), historian and promoter of Welsh folk dancing Lois Blake was born in Streatham, London, on 21 May 1890, the daughter of Amy (née Dickes) and Henry Fownes Turner, and was christened Loïs Agnes Fownes Turner. After her mother's death (when she was three years old) she was brought up by her aunt and uncle Mary and James Watt. She received an upper-class comprehensive education and travelled Europe extensively. She served as a nurse in the Great
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, intercepted on the way to Swansea, and Gwynne was interrogated and sent to the Tower under the allegation (never tested in the courts) that he had confessed to a plot to kill James I. Gardiner (Hist., i, 106) suggests that this 'confession' produced a momentary triumph in the council of the Hispanophobe party, who may have engineered it. GWYNNE remained in the Tower till 1605, after which no more is known

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