Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer Cornish air, a song that became a great favourite of the singer Peter Dawson. He married in 1938 Catherine Hughes, headmistress of Coleshill school, Llanelli. He died in Bryntirion Hospital, Llanelli, 28 December 1959 and was cremated at Morriston.
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman , Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare, read an extract from 'In Praise of the Chairman of Committees', verses written by Lord Cledwyn, while his brother, Adam Bruce, read 'Carmarthenshire' by Dudley Garnet Davies. Lord Aberdare left an estate of £651,978 net.
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
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer the B.A. and Mus. Bac. degrees, but a severe breakdown in health in 1893 compelled him to leave Oxford and to give up all work for a long period. Until 1903 he lived mainly at Wrexham and Marchwiel; in that year he moved to Caernarvon, where his brothers, Edward and Joseph Davies Bryan (infra), who were in business in Egypt, had a house. From that date Robert Bryan spent most of his winters in Egypt
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer published a biography of Lord Gladstone of Hawarden, the son of the famous Prime Minister, in 1936 based on research undertaken while at Hawarden. In 1938 he published his Top Sawyer, the still highly regarded biography of David Davies of Llandinam (1818-1890). In 1930 he had also published Coal in the New Era, his first publication to deal with current affairs. During World War II he served in the army
BURTON, IAN HAMILTON (Archimandrite Barnabas) (1915 - 1996), Orthodox priest . Already he was deeply religious. He continued to study Latin and Greek with his Rector, Reverend Robert Davies, and eventually started preparing for ordination in the Church in Wales. Burton met a hermit Anglican nun, Sister Mary Fidelia, who lived in his grandfather's old house in Llanwrin. Following her advice, he joined the Anglican Order of the Cowley Fathers at Oxford, becoming a postulant there in
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director 1945, succeeding the ailing Rowland Hughes as the BBC English language features producer in Cardiff. He described this as 'the watershed of my life'. He produced work by Rhys Davies who became a good friend. In 1947 Burton commissioned Dylan Thomas's Return Journey, adding five minutes to the script himself in order to meet the requisite broadcast time. He later played the Reverend Eli Jenkins in the
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist fighting against Communist guerillas in the Far East during a campaign which came to be known as the Malaya Emergency. When his period of National Service came to an end, he attended Cirencester Agricultural College for a while before returning home to concentrate on breeding Palomino ac Appaloosa horses on his stud farm at Glandenys. He married Gillianne Mary Davies from Llangeitho in 1966, and they had
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
CELTIC DAVIES - see DAVIES, EDWARD
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff graduated B.A. in 1898 with first-class honours in Hebrew, M.A. (1900) and B.D. (1916). In 1899 he was ordained minister of High Street (B) Church, Merthyr Tydfil. In January 1904 he was appointed part-time lecturer in Church History at the Baptist College, Cardiff; and full-time professor and financial secretary in 1908. He became acting principal on the death of John Morlais Davies in April 1928, but
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister was held at his London house - (Davies and Jones, The University of Wales, 69-70).

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