Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, appeared to avail himself of his purchase; he continued to live at Nant-y-glo. In the meantime collieries were being sunk at Cwm-bach alongside the Aberdare canal. He waited until the valley seemed ripe for a railway. Then, with Sir Josiah John Guest, he obtained a Parliamentary Act in 1845 for the Aberdare Railway, to connect with the Taff Vale Railway at 'Navigation' (now called Abercynon). He came
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, Sir JOSEPH BAILEY, (1783 - 1858), baronet, iron-master, landowner, and M.P., was the elder son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay (1739 - 1810), the famous iron-master of Cyfarthfa. When quite a young lad, he tramped the whole way from Yorkshire to seek his rich uncle at Merthyr. By hard work and perseverance he soon obtained a good grasp of the iron
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic congregation, in which he had the support of the Government, now under the personal rule of Charles I and eager to advance the Benedictine claims both for patriotic reasons and as a counterweight to the politically far more dangerous Jesuits. He was given access to the State papers in the Tower and the use of private libraries like that of Sir Robert Cotton (to whom he had written while still at Cambrai
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales Sir John Wynne's The history of the Gwydir family; he published Gleanings from a Printer's File in 1928, and ' Katheryn of Berain ' in Cymm., xl. He served as editor of the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society for some years. He was awarded the honorary degree of M.A. by the University of Wales, in 1909, became a C.B.E. in 1920, and was made a knight bachelor in 1930, in which year he
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge
BARHAM, DIANA (1763 - 1823), peeress in her own right, 1813, benefactress of the evangelical movement The only daughter of Charles Middleton, lord Barham, and Margaret his wife, of Barham Court, Kent. She married Sir Gerard Noel in 1780. In 1813 she settled in Gower, and, being of an evangelical disposition, began with the help of the Methodists to establish religious congregations and to build chapels for them in the English -speaking parts of the peninsula. Her association with the Methodists
BARKER family, artists BENJAMIN BARKER (died 1774?), foreman and enamel painter at the japan works, Pontypool, expert at painting sporting and animal figures Art and Architecture According to the Trevethin church register (quoted by Sir Joseph A. Bradney), he was paid six guineas in 1774 for painting a royal coat of arms. A sporting scene painted by him on japanware is in the N.M.W. His sons, Thomas Barker, R.A., and
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop succeeded in founding Christ College, Brecon, in 1542. He conveyed the valuable manor of Lamphey to the king, who in turn conferred it upon Sir Richard Devereux. Barlow was translated to Bath and Wells in 1548, and 'resigned' in 1553. After being twice imprisoned for trying to escape, he fled to the Continent early in 1555, and remained in Germany and Poland until 1558. He was one of those who consecrated
BARLOW, Sir WILLIAM OWEN Orielton (d. 1851) - see OWEN
BARNWELL, EDWARD LOWRY (1813 - 1887), antiquary and schoolmaster , October 1887, also in Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, part 3). After retiring from Ruthin in 1865, he lived at Melksham House, Wiltshire, where he died 9 August 1887; he was married, and had a son and a daughter.
BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Rockstro and was appointed (1868) flautist to the Italian Opera, Lutz. For twelve years he played under the conductorship of Sir Michael Costa in the performances of the Sacred Harmonic Society. He was with the Carl Rosa Company for seven years and took part in performances by the Philharmonic Society and the ' Bach Choir.' He was chief flautist at the musical festivals of 'The Three Choirs' in

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