Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom
AUBREY, WILLIAM (1759 - 1827), engineer of Tredegar. Superintendent of the steam engines in the Tredegar iron-works. He was one of the pioneers of his craft in South Wales, specializing in the design and construction of all manner of machines powered by steam. As chief assistant to Watkin George, the mineral engineer, he shared the responsibility for the planning and erection, at the Cyfarthfa works, of the largest water system of its
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic 1603 he was reconciled to Rome through the agency of Fr. Richard Lloyd, a pupil of the English College at Rome. On his homeward way, a chance meeting with Fr. William Watson involved him in suspicions of complicity in Watson's plot (the 'Bye Plot'), but no charge was preferred, and in 1605 he joined the Benedictine community of S. Justinian at Padua, taking the religious name of ' Augustine.' Here he
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist landed safely by parachute in Schleswig Holstein, and spent the next years in a succession of prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland. Among those he met was John Buxton captured in Norway who knew Skokholm well having married Marjorie, one of Ronald Lockley's sisters, George Waterston badly injured in Crete and who later was to restore livelihood to Fair Isle, and Peter Conder captured with
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
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea Born 20 May 1874 in India, the son of Henry Clements Barstow, a civil servant, and Cecilia Clementina Baillie. The Barstows were long-established and prominent merchants in York. Following his marriage to the only daughter of Sir Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, George Barstow established a home near Builth and a connection with Wales. Barstow graduated from Emmanuel College
BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author Of Upper Bryn, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire. He was born at Monmouth and christened on 14 June 1814, the only son of George Trotham Baxter (1762-1841) of Hereford, and was a member of an old family long settled in the neighbourhood of Newtown. Among his ancestors was Richard Baxter, the famous Presbyterian divine. He entered an Oxford college but did not graduate there. Four of his works are
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator twentieth-century literature. It was published in 1955 under the title A History of Welsh Literature. In 1926 Bell had visited Egypt to collect papyri for the British Museum. His account of the journey was translated into Welsh by D. Tecwyn Lloyd and published in two volumes entitled Trwy Diroedd y Dwyrain (1946). He also wrote two books for children - Dewi a'r Blodyn Llo Mawr (1928) and Calon y Dywysoges
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors All three sons of JOHN MATHIAS BERRY (born 2 May 1847 in Camrose, Pemb.; died 9 January 1917) and his wife Mary Ann (née Rowe, of Pembroke Dock), who moved to Merthyr Tydfil in 1874, were created peers. J. M. Berry worked on the railway and as an accountant before becoming an estate agent and auctioneer in 1894. He was the mayor when King George V visited the town in 1912. The foundation stone of
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist circulating schools. This she did very successfully until her death in 1779; indeed, the year 1773 with its 242 schools and 13,205 pupils was the most flourishing in the history of the movement. She bequeathed £10,000 for the continuation of the schools, but her will was disputed by two of her relatives who were also trustees, lady Elizabeth Stepney of Llanelly and Admiral William Lloyd, Danyrallt
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

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