Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, SARAH (1727 - 1807), first matron of the Trevecka Family - see LLOYD, SIMON
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal Born 7 February 1906 at 74a Chapel St., Ponciau, Rhosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, son of William Bowyer, miner, and his wife Sarah. He was the fifth of their six children. He received his primary education at the Council School, Ponciau, and then from 1920 to 1928 he worked in a grocer's shop, an experience that he greatly appreciated, but received further education under the guidance of J
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Born at Duffryn, Aberdare, 16 April 1815, the second son of John Bruce Pryce by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, rector of S. Peter's, Barbadoes. (The family name was originally Knight, John Bruce Pryce being the son of John Knight of Llanblethian and Margaret, daughter of William Bruce of Cowbridge.) Bruce received his early education at S. Omer, but at the age
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman the weeks he spent in Carmarthenshire. A man with a high sense of public service, but with a light touch, Lord Aberdare remained a tall, elegant and slender figure into his old age. On 1 June 1946, he married (Maud Helen) Sarah Dashwood, daughter of Sir John Dashwood, 10th Bt. of West Wycombe Park; they had four sons. The last years of Lord Aberdare's life were overshadowed by his considerable
BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author Oxford, and in 1832 a privy councillor. His wife was Sarah, daughter of Sir Henry Gott, Newland Park, Buckinghamshire. He died 17 March 1847 at Boultibrook, near Presteign, a house whence (in 1923) some Boultibrook manuscripts came to the National Library of Wales (now NLW MSS 4901-12), to be supplemented (in 1943) by a very large group of Harford Jones and Harford Jones Brydges papers which came from
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor Richard Walter Jenkins was born in Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, on 10 November 1925, the twelfth child of Richard Walter Jenkins (a miner who was fond of his pint) and his wife Edith (née Thomas). Following his mother's death barely two years later, Richard went to live with his eldest sister, Cecilia, in the neighboring village of Taibach. The family was Welsh-speaking and Richard retained
CADWALADR (d. 664), prince claimed descent from the popular hero 'in the twenty second degree' (Wynne, 336) and the red dragon of Cadwaladr was one of the three standards which he offered up at S. Paul's in 1485. But he also appears in a very different character, as Cadwaladr the Blessed, the patron saint of Llangadwaladr in Anglesey, Llangadwaladr in Denbighshire, and Bishton, formerly Llangadwaladr, in Monmouthshire. In the
CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet A native of Llandderfel, Meironnydd; he lived at Hafod Uchel. He wrote both in strict and in free metres. Some of his ballads were printed in the 18th century - e.g. Cerdd i ofyn Pâr o Ddillad o Rôdd Pendefig, and Cerdd o barchedigaeth urddasol Watkin Williams Wynne, Esq. Some of his poems are included in Blodeugerdd…, 1759. It appears from his poem ' Clod i Ferch,' which contains many classical
CAMPBELL, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) Born 13 February 1847, eldest son of the 2nd earl Cawdor of Golden Grove, Carmarthenshire, and his first wife Sarah, daughter of the Hon. Henry Compton-Cavendish. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he was Conservative M.P. for Carmarthenshire, 1874-85, but unsuccessfully contested West Carmarthenshire, 1885, south Manchester, 1892, and the Cricklade division of Wiltshire, 1898. In 1880
CARTER family Kinmel, William procured an Act of Parliament, allowing him to sell out to Sir George Wynne of Leeswood, Flintshire; William then went to live at Redbourn, in Lincolnshire. The Kinmel estate continued to be an embarrassment even to its new owners, and in June 1781 a decree of Chancery sanctioned its sale to a David Roberts, of London, who, however (with his associates), sold it again, in 1786, to the Rev
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer . Returning to Carmarthen to follow his trade, he married Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips, a banker (and a Christianized Jew) of Haverfordwest. He joined the Methodist congregation in Water Street, and was elected elder. He soon became one of the outstanding Methodist leaders in South Wales and took a prominent part in establishing the Home Mission and drawing up the Cyffes Ffydd (confession of

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