Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEADLES, ELISHA (1670 - 1734), Quaker and writer Son of John Beadles of Kempston, Beds., and Elizabeth, heiress of Walter Jenkins of Pant, a Quaker. He married Anne Handley in 1699. He translated into Welsh the treatise by his grandfather, Walter Jenkins, entitled, ' The law given forth out of Zion, etc. ', the translation being printed at Shrewsbury c. 1715, under the title Y gyfraith a roddwyd allan o Sion wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg er
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors turning point in Berry's life. Within three years he became director of no fewer than 66 companies. These were mostly coalmines and shipping companies, including John Lysaght, Ltd. makers of galvanised sheets, with steelworks, rolling mills and colliery interests, which he had recently acquired in conjunction with his brother William Ewert Berry, D. R. Llewellyn and Viscountess Rhondda (Thomas, Margaret
BERRY, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1869 - 1945), minister (Congl.) and writer 10 August 1903, Hannah M. Watkins of Gwaelod-y-garth. They had one daughter. In 1911 R. G. Berry, as he came to be known, became prominent as one of the pioneers of the drama in Welsh. Amongst his plays are Asgre lân, Owen Gwynedd, Ar y groesffordd, and Y Ddraenen wen : shorter plays are Noson o farrug, Cadw noswyl, Dwywaith yn blentyn, and Yr Hen anian. He mastered the art of setting his plays
BEVAN, LLEWELYN DAVID (1842 - 1918), Independent minister ), Athro Anianeg Fourth son of Llewelyn David Bevan. He was a professor of physics at the Royal Holloway College; his career and work are described by T. Iorwerth Jones in "The contributions of Welshmen to science", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1932-3, 54-6.
BEVAN, WILLIAM LATHAM (1821 - 1908), archdeacon . Philip's East, Stepney, he was ordained priest in 1845 and presented to the living of Hay, which he held for fifty-six years. He held the prebend of Llanddewi Aberarth in S. Davids cathedral, 1876-9, and a canonry of the same cathedral 1879-1903. In 1895 he was appointed archdeacon of Brecon and from 1881 to 1897, he was examining chaplain to the bishop of S. Davids. He married Louisa, daughter of T. Dew
BIGGS, NORMAN (1870 - 1908), Wales and Cardiff Rugby wing threequarter University while in residence, and also helped the London Welsh. In 1893-4 he succeeded T. W. Pearson as captain of the Cardiff side, and it was on New Year's Day, during his captaincy, that Gwyn Nicholls played his first game for the Cardiff club. On the outbreak of the Boer War he volunteered for active service and joined the Glamorgan Yeomanry as a trooper, but was later promoted to the rank of captain
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, An old Caernarvonshire family, descended from Trahaearn Goch, lord of Cymydmaen. The surname was adopted by HUGH GWYN, sheriff of Caernarvonshire, 1605 (son of John Wyn, sheriff 1584). Of his twelve children, the eldest, JOHN BODWRDA (died 1648?), was sheriff in 1629, and may have been the John Bodwrda 'secured' by the then sheriff (Sir T. Cheadle) for supposed Roundhead sympathies on the
BOSANQUET family Professor Henry Lewis in 1942 under the title Brut Dingestow. The collection had been originally formed by Sir JOHN BERNARD BOSANQUET (1773 - 1847), judge and man of letters, but passed to his nephew; it was acquired in 1916 by the N.L.W. One of the sons of S. R. Bosanquet (1800 - 1882) was Sir FREDERICK ALBERT BOSANQUET (1837 - 1923), judge of the Central Criminal Court from 1917. A member of the
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer 1931 for an X-ray investigation of the tin-antimony alloys. A Postgraduate Studentship enabled him to work under the direction of Prof. E. V. Appleton at King's College, London University, spending part of 1933-34 working with a cathode-ray direction finder at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) Radio Research Station, Slough, for a PhD degree, London (1934), when he was noticed by R. A. Watson
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian of the Welsh Bibliographical and other Societies. Many honours came to him in recognition of his service to his country, and of his scholarship. He was made a C.B. in 1911, knighted in 1924, and awarded the D.Litt. of the University of Wales in 1923. He was twice married: (1) to Rosa (died 1927), daughter of Edward Jenkins, Nantygroes, Radnorshire, and (2) Florence, daughter of Francis E. Prothero
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer States for seven months with the Llanelli choir in 1909-10; John died on the ship Mauretania whilst returning to Britain from New York. After leaving the elementary school at Pwll, he worked in the tinplate industry and studied music in Llanelli in his spare time, firstly with Maggie Aubrey and later with R.C. Jenkins, conductor of the Llanelli Choral Society who had been taught by Joseph Parry. He
BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author The only daughter of J. R. Ormsby-Gore (1816 - 1876), 1st baron Harlech. She was first married in 1863 to the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (died 1865); their son, Lloyd, succeeded his grandfather in 1869 as 4th baron Kenyon. Her second marriage in 1880 was to the Reverend Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley-Owen, of Tedsmore, West Felton (died 1910). Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen took an active interest in Welsh cultural

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