Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist , dean of St Asaph. A younger brother, SHUTE BARRINGTON, was bishop of Llandaff from 1769 until 1782. Daines Barrington's varied publications are noted in the D.N.B. article. It was Barrington who first published Sir John Wynn's The history of the Gwydir family. This appeared, as an octavo, in London, in 1770, being followed in 1781 by a version, in quarto, included in Miscellanies by the Honourable
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea Born 20 May 1874 in India, the son of Henry Clements Barstow, a civil servant, and Cecilia Clementina Baillie. The Barstows were long-established and prominent merchants in York. Following his marriage to the only daughter of Sir Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, George Barstow established a home near Builth and a connection with Wales. Barstow graduated from Emmanuel College
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer belied the Practice of Piety as bishop by taking unto himself an inordinate number of livings 'in commendam' and by promoting both his son John and his son-in-law Dr. William Hill from one good benefice to another, and that within short periods of time. At first he boldly challenged the power of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir, the most powerful layman in his diocese, especially over leases of Church lands
BEAUMONT, Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. RALPH EDWARD BLACKETT (1901 - 1977), Member of Parliament and public figure Born at 33 Belgrave Square, London, on 12 February 1901, the fifth child and second son of Wentworth Canning Blackett Beaumont, from 1907 2nd Baron Allendale and from 1911 1st Viscount Allendale, and Lady Alexandrina Louisa Maud Vane-Tempest, daughter of the 5th Marquess of Londonderry. His maternal grandmother, the 5th Marchioness of Londonderry, was the daughter of Sir John Edwards of
BEDLOE, WILLIAM (1650 - 1680), adventurer and Popish Plot informer of Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey. He gave evidence against over a dozen priests, and even accused the queen, Catherine of Braganza, of plotting to murder the king. He died at Bristol, 20 August 1680. A contemporary considered him much superior to Oates in imagination and fluency of speech, and hardly inferior to him as a liar and a perjurer.
BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet Born 4 June 1915, son of Sir Harold Idris Bell 1879 - 1967) and Mabel Winifred (née Ayling). He received his education at a private school at Crouch End, London, and Merchant Taylors' School, where he was taught the classics and was given some instruction in art. He spent four years at the Royal College of Art, and gained the diploma. He joined the Egypt Exploration Society's expedition to the
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator
BELLEROCHE, ALBERT de (1864 - 1944), painter and lithographer Born 1864 at Swansea and brought up by his stepfather, W.H.V. Millbank. Sir Frank Brangwyn, his friend and staunch admirer of his work, bought for Brussels Museum the artist's ' The Fortune Teller '. Belleroche presented to the National Museum of Wales a collection of his works, including a full-length portrait of his mother. He devised a method of detecting forged watermarks in 1915. He died 14
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors first newspaper, The Sunday Times, which was losing money at the time. W.E. Berry was its editor-in-chief, 1915-36. In 1924, with Sir E.M. (later Lord) Iliffe they founded Allied Newspapers. The next big purchase was the Amalgamated Press in 1926, which included a large number of non-political periodicals, a book section, two printing works and the Imperial Paper Mills. The following year they bought
BEVAN, ANEURIN (1897 - 1960), politician and one of the founders of the Welfare State in 1939 he was expelled from the Labour Party because of his support for Sir Stafford Cripps and the United Front movement, but was reinstated in December of the same year. He opposed the government throughout World War II, and was sharply critical of Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, and Ernest Bevin. In December 1944 he was elected for the first time to the Labour Party's National
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist -41, and a Member of Parliament, 1727-41. In May 1735 he was appointed Judge of Equity in South and North Wales. He was the executor of the will of Sir Richard Steele. He died 6 March 1743, aged 56, and was buried at Laugharne church. (The date of his death is given by most writers as 1745.) Derllys Court in Bridget Bevan's early days was a centre of religious and educational life. Her rector in

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