Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL, LEWIS (1705? - 1776), cleric and author April 1767; it is a translation of J. Hammond's Historical Narrative of the Whole Bible; and (g) a translation of John Mabletoft's preface to his book entitled The Principles and the Duties of the Christian Religion (1710). He died at Abergele and was buried in the parish church 27 February 1776.
APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES (Nimrod; 1779 - 1843), writer on sport . Apperley's best-known books are The Chace, the Road, and the Turf (1837), Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton (1837), The Life of a Sportsman (1842), and Hunting Reminiscences (1843). While in France he became a member of the staff of the Sporting Review, and, at J. G. Lockhart's request, contributed to the Quarterly Review articles on ' Melton Mowbray,' ' The Road,' and ' The Turf.' In his autobiography he
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Protestant, and was made chief justice of Ireland in 1564. His career is covered in D.N.B. Supplement, 75. JOHN ARNOLD Sir Nicholas Arnold's second son (wrongly called Thomas in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 21), inherited Llanthony (the Gloucestershire estates passing to the children of a former marriage), but later leased it to the Hopton family (retaining the baronial
ARNOLD, JOHN (1634), Whig politician - see ARNOLD
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies He became in later ages the chief figure of the Arthurian cycle of tales. Nothing definite is known about him as a historical character, although his existence can no longer be denied, nor can he be explained, as he was by Sir John Rhys and others, as a purely legendary figure. He is not mentioned by Gildas, c. 540, in his reference to the victory of the Britons at ' Badon Hill ' ('Mons Badonicus
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian Born at Ty'nsarn, Llawr-y-glyn, Montgomeryshire, 4 September 1848, the son of Elizabeth Ashton. When he was about 9 years old he began to receive instruction from one John Jones who kept school for three months at a time in the local Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels. At the age of 12 Ashton went to work in the lead mines of Dylife, an occupation which he soon found uncongenial. Leaving
ASHTON, JOHN (1830 - 1896), musician
AUBREY, JOHN (1626 - 1697) - see AUBREY, WILLIAM
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer (Cranmer, 576) that he was deprived for 'incompliance' seems to be unfounded. Elizabeth allowed him (23 February 1559) to alienate the office to John Griffith, B.C.L. (Rymer, Foedera, xv, 565). Aubrey now devoted himself to his practice in the prerogative and ecclesiastical courts as Master in Chancery (c. 1555), Master of Requests (1590), advocate in the Court of Arches and Judge of Audience in the
AUGUSTUS, WILLIAM, a prescientific weather forecaster and translator He lived at Cil-y-cwm, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, at the close of the 18th century. The precise dates of his life are unknown, but he was living in 1794 when John Ross of Carmarthen printed The Husbandman's Perpetual Prognostication. This work is a curious collection of weather lore written partly in Welsh and partly in English. The source of the Welsh portion (which is largely a
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors Though the Dowlais Iron Co. had been formed in 1759 and John Guest of Broseley had been engaged as its manager early in 1760, it was ANTHONY BACON (1717 - 1786) who was the real originator of the pre-eminence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Great Britain, and who converted it from a hamlet into a flourishing manufacturing town. He was baptized on 24 January 1717 at St Bees
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author (according to John Evans's statistics of 1715) composed of people in very good circumstances; and tradition describes Baddy himself as being fashionably dressed and well mounted. He was a diligent translator of theological works (list in Ashton, Hanes llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 O.C. hyd 1850, 167-77, and Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, part 3). His original compositions, a metrical version of the

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