Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton Hall, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
BARHAM family Trecŵn, On 1 July 1754 at Cheltenham, Dorothea, fourth daughter of John Vaughan of Trecŵn and Joan Corbet his wife, married JOSEPH FOSTER -BARHAM, son of Colonel John Foster (1681 - 1731), of Egham House, Surrey, and Jamaica. He was born 16 December 1729 in Jamaica, where the family had large estates which he inherited. He assumed the surname of his step-father, Dr. Henry Barham, in 1750, and died in
BARKER family, artists Benjamin Barker II, distinguished themselves as landscape and subject painters, whilst the sons of his son Thomas, viz. Thomas Jones Barker and JOHN JONES BARKER were also artists. THOMAS BARKER (1769 - 1847), landscape and subject painter Art and Architecture Son of Benjamin Barker of Pontypool, was born at Trosnant, Pontypool, 1769, and displayed a talent for drawing when very young. He settled at Sion
BARLOW, JOHN, dean of Worcester - see BARLOW, WILLIAM
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop Born in Essex, the son of John and Christian Barlow; he became an Austin canon at S. Osyth's, Essex, and at Oxford, where he is said to have become D.D. After being prior of three small houses, Blackmore, Tiptree, and Lees, he became prior of Bromehill in 1524, until its dissolution by Wolsey in 1528. His career, 1528-34, is obscure. He may have been a diplomat in royal service. Or, possibly, he
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer Born 16 January 1920 at Brecon, where his father, Sergeant Edward ('Teddy') Barnes, was stationed with the South Wales Borderers. Both Teddy and his wife Joyce (née Plummer), were born in north London. Walley Barnes was the third of their four children and the only one born in Wales. Edward and John were born in England, whilst Pearl, his only sister was born in India to where the family moved in
BARNWELL, EDWARD LOWRY (1813 - 1887), antiquary and schoolmaster , October 1887, also in Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, part 3). After retiring from Ruthin in 1865, he lived at Melksham House, Wiltshire, where he died 9 August 1887; he was married, and had a son and a daughter.
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist John Barrett was born in King's Lynn on 21 July 1913, the eldest of four children of John Ambrose Barrett, a chemist at a brewery, and his wife Evelyn Marion. His father was killed on 31 July 1917 while serving as a signals officer with the Rifle Brigade on the Western Front; he was amongst the first to be buried in the New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Barrett attended schools in Norwich and
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette speaking and other events. As a Welsh speaker, Rachel led a campaign in North Wales in the summer of 1910 during which she was part of a deputation which met with Lloyd George at his house in Cricieth. After arguing hotly with him for two and a half hours she left 'more convinced than before of his determined opposition to the WSPU and the insincerity of his support of the suffrage.' Shortly after this
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist 1770), to Paul Panton; in this he calls Edward Lhuyd '…one of the greatest men that ever existed for philological learning … also … a very distinguished fossilist'; also, in NLW MS 12416D, several written to John Lloyd, F.R.S., of Wigfair, near S. Asaph, in one of these Barrington informs Lloyd that he can arrange for the latter to receive copies from Paul Panton of the correspondence between Sir
BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric February 1784, and his body was brought to S. Athan for burial. Elegies to his memory were written by John Williams, S. Athan, 1728 - 1806, and William Williams, Pantycelyn. At the same time David Jones, Llan-gan, published a booklet giving an account of his life: Llythyr oddiwrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim y Prydydd … (Trevecka, 1784).

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