Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar Rachel Sheldon Amos was born on 30 July 1915 in Hove, Sussex, the fourth of five children and the second daughter of Sir Percy Maurice Maclardie Sheldon Amos (1872-1940) and his wife Lucy Scott Moncrieff (1880-1958), both of Scottish descent. Amos was both an academic lawyer and a practising barrister and by the end of the British Protectorate in 1922 was judicial advisor to the Egyptian
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician Eve. She was also a member of the Management Committee, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London 1961-71. For these and for her political services, Barbara Brooke was appointed DBE in 1960 and created, in Sir Alec Douglas-Home's dissolution honours list of December 1964, a life peer as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, in the County of Breconshire. In the House of Lords, Barbara Brooke spoke on health
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician 1961 and for Manchester Exchange in the 1964 general election. In 1970 she was defeated for the West Flint nomination by Sir Anthony Meyer. Brookes was elected as Conservative MEP for North Wales in 1979. However, she subsequently made a final attempt to enter the House of Commons in the 1983 general election with the newly created North-west Clwyd seat. This led to a drawn-out Conservative Party
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, BROUGHTON (c. 1544 - c. 1614), Ralph Broughton's grandson (and heir to the Plas Isa estate), added to it that of Marchwiel Hall by his marriage to the daughter of Henry Parry of Basingwerk and Marchwiel, and was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1608. His eldest son Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON was knighted in 1618 (18 March). In 1639 (22 January) he was pardoned (on the petition of his wife and the certificate of judge
BROWN, JAMES CONWAY (1838 - 1908), musician , and part-songs. He became organist of Hale church, near Farnham, in 1875, and of the parish church, Farnham, in 1879. Later he published a sonata in E major for violin and pianoforte for which he had been awarded the Sir Michael Costa prize at Trinity College of Music, London. In 1886 he was awarded the national eisteddfod prize for an anthem. He also conducted several choral and orchestral
BROWN, MIA ARNESBY (1867 - 1931), artist Born in Cwmbran, Monmouth, daughter of Rev. Charles Smallwood Edwards and grand-daughter of Rev. Loderwick Edwards, vicar of Rhymney. She studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer. She showed five pictures in the Royal Academy under her maiden name, Edwards. In 1913 in an exhibition of contemporary Welsh artists, two of her pictures drew attention - ' Mary reading ' and ' The Garden Boy ', the latter
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier ) in 1922 when (General) John Geoffrey Bruce (born 4 December 1896, his cousin, son of Sir Gerald Trevor Knight-Bruce of St. Hilary, Glamorganshire) broke the world record with an ascent of 8,300 metres, and in 1924 when Mallory and Irvine were lost on the final slopes. Bruce himself was unable to climb to great heights by now but according to Longstaff he was an 'ideal leader'. In his time technical
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare of 12 returned to Wales and was sent to Swansea grammar school. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1837. After practising for a few years he left England owing to his state of health and spent two years in Italy. On his return he was appointed stipendiary magistrate for Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare. In 1852, on the death of Sir John Guest, he was returned unopposed as Liberal member for
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
BRUCE, WILLIAM NAPIER (1858 - 1936), educationalist and lawyer Second son of the 1st lord Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, and Nora, daughter of Sir William Napier. He was born 18 January 1858 at Duffryn, Aberdare. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated (1880) in the Honour School of 'Litterae Humaniores. ' In 1883 he was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn and three years later entered upon his long career as an assistant
BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society allow his official duties to interrupt his personal research, and he accepted Sir Napier Shaw's invitation to join him in his duties as part-time professor of meteorology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London. This led, after the retirement of Sir Napier Shaw, to Brunt becoming the first full-time professor of meteorology in Britain. He held the chair from 1934 to 1952 and two
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer the B.A. and Mus. Bac. degrees, but a severe breakdown in health in 1893 compelled him to leave Oxford and to give up all work for a long period. Until 1903 he lived mainly at Wrexham and Marchwiel; in that year he moved to Caernarvon, where his brothers, Edward and Joseph Davies Bryan (infra), who were in business in Egypt, had a house. From that date Robert Bryan spent most of his winters in Egypt

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