Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
BEVAN, JOSEPH GURNEY (1753 - 1814), chemist - see BEVAN, SILVANUS
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician BEVAN 1704 - 1786, his brother, succeeded him in the Plough Court business - which was the lineal ancestor of the firm of Allen and Hanbury. He married as his second wife Hannah, daughter of John Gurney, and was the father of JOSEPH GURNEY BEVAN (1753 - 1814), who carried on the business but is better known as a writer on Quakerism and is commemorated in D.N.B.
BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician Nigel Birch was born on 18 November 1906, the son of General Sir Noel Birch and his wife Florence Chetwode, of 11 Kensington Gore, London SW7. He was educated at Eton and spent his early career as a stockbroker. By the age of 33 he had accumulated a personal fortune in the region of £45,000, mainly in the gilt edge market, which enabled him to retire and devote his time to the study of politics
BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet 1605-66 (4) appears a reference to rents paid for land held by four men, of whom one, named Burchinshawe, may be the poet. Sometimes called 'Sir' W. Birchinshaw, he was, perhaps, trained for the priesthood. He was a contemporary of Morris Kyffin. Most of his poems have been preserved in NLW MS 567B, NLW MS 1553A, and NLW MS 5272C.
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, Elizabeth, daughter of Jenkin Lloyd of Berth-lwyd, Llanidloes. Their daughter and heiress, JOYCE, married her second cousin, Sir Arthur Blayney, who belonged to the Irish branch of the family. His father was the 1st lord Blayney who, in turn, was the third son of David Lloyd Blayney (sheriff 1577, v. supra). EDWARD, the 1st LORD BLAYNEY, was a soldier from his youth, and in 1598 he accompanied the earl of
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, heir of Hugh Gwyn Bodvel's grandson Sir John Bodvel (kt. 1614, died 1631) and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir (1553 - 1626). He entered the Middle Temple in 1633 and in 1640 married Ann, daughter of Sir William Russell of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, co-Treasurer of the Navy. He sat for Anglesey (where his grandfather had acquired by marriage the estate of Caerfryn) in the Short and

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