Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet A native of the countryside around Denbigh, he was possibly related to Maurice Birchinshaw who graduated B.Gramm. in 1511, and B.C.L. in 1515, from Magdalen College, Oxford, and became rector of Denbigh in 1543; he died 1564. In NLW MS 5272C, p. 185, is preserved a letter by William Myddelton to 'his cousin Wilm Birchinsha and Owen Meurig', wherein he advises them to be civil to their tutor. And
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, Essex to Ireland. He distinguished himself in the fighting in Ireland, and in 1603 he was knighted and, in 1621, elevated to the peerage of Ireland as lord Blayney, baron of Monaghan, co. Monaghan. His second son, ARTHUR (the husband of Joyce Blayney), was knighted for bravery in the battle of Beaumaris He was sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1644. During the Civil War he assisted Sir William Owen of
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, GWYN (BODVEL) (died 1611) was imprisoned for opposition to the earl of Leicester (son of his father's patron) as ranger of Snowdon forest, and while he was still in durance a commission was issued (1578) to Nicholas Robinson, bishop of Bangor, and Elis Prys to investigate his relations, as a 'known papist,' with his brother-in-law Hugh Owen of Plas Du (1538 - 1618) in exile at Brussels. No
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, outbreak of civil war; three went to S. John's College, Cambridge, where Hugh's wife's brother, Owen Gwyn (or Gwynne), was elected master in 1612. WILLIAM BODWRDA (1593 - 1660), second son, went there in 1612 after graduating at Oxford, becoming M.A. 1615, B.D. 1623, and a Fellow of the college till his ejection for refusing the Solemn League and Covenant in 1644. After holding several college livings in
BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, The members of this family trace their descent up to Gwynfardd Dyfed (c. 1038). The first to adopt the family surname was probably EVAN BOWEN, Pentre Evan. Many members served as high sheriffs; throughout they have played their part in public affairs. JAMES BOWEN, sheriff in 1622, was at Llwyn-gwair when Lewys Dwnn made his 'visitation' of Pembrokeshire in 1591. James married Elenor, daughter of
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer Edward (Eddie) Bowen was born 14 January 1911, the youngest of four children of George Bowen (steelworker in tinplate works) and Ellen Ann (née Owen) of Cockett, Swansea, Glamorganshire. He attended Sketty Primary School and gained scholarships to the Municipal Secondary School, Swansea and to the University College of Swansea, graduating BSc (Physics, 1st class honours, 1930) with MSc degree in
BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer attained the rank of captain. He served as an officer on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General. He was elected the Liberal MP for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945 as the successor to the recently deceased Sir David Owen Evans, and was re-elected there in five successive general elections, but was defeated by D. Elystan Morgan (Labour) in the general election of 1966. Bowen - 'the
BRERETON, OWEN SALUSBURY (1715 - 1798), antiquary
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare to see this hope realized and to be chosen as first chancellor of the University. He died a fortnight later, that is, 25 February 1895. Lord Aberdare was twice married. The second son of his second marriage, William Napier Bruce, is separately noticed. Lord Aberdare knew Welsh, and translated some of the poems of Taliesin ab Iolo and of Owen Gruffydd into English.
BRYAN, JOHN (1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister experience of conversion in December 1798 and joined the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists at Chester, but he soon transferred his membership to the Octagon, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the city. In February 1800 he began to preach as a local preacher, and during the next eighteen months he gave useful assistance to Owen Davies and John Hughes, the two missionaries appointed by the Methodist conference to
BULKELEY family cumulation of offices in his own person that the squires of the western commotes broke out in revolt with Owen Meyrick of Bodorgan as their leader, who fought four county elections with the 4th viscount, failed in 1708 and 1710, won in 1715, lost again in 1722. The Toryism of the 4th (died 1724), the 5th (RICHARD, died 1739), and the 6th (JAMES, died 1752) viscounts was so rank and high that they were
BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691 - 1760), squire and diarist Prichard's outlook on things: he granted him a lease for twenty-one years on the two Clwchdernogs in the parish of Llanddeusant but quarrelled with him in 1760, broke the old lease, but allowed Prichard a new one for eighteen years. Bulkeley was no Dissenter, but it gave him a malicious joy to see the long faces of men like Owen Morris of Paradwys, Henry Troughton of Bodlew, and the 6th viscount Bulkeley

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