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13 - 24 of 4804 for "Society for the Study of the Old Testament"

  • ADAMS, ROGER (d. 1741), bookseller and printer at Chester Although he may not have been a Welshman, Roger Adams, who was admitted a freeman of Chester on 20 February 1713/4, merits a note as he was one of the earliest printers of Welsh books and ballads at Chester : his first book was (probably) Ystyriaethau o Gyflwr Dyn, 1724. In 1730 he had started to print Adams's Chester Weekly Courant, and in 1739 he printed John Reynolds, The Scripture Genealogy
  • ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert Born at Pen-y-cae, Ebbw Vale, 10 October 1813, son of John and Mary Adams. The father was a working collier at the time but a man of remarkable skill in that vocation; later he became mineral agent for Charles Lloyd Harford & Co. William was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. In May 1828 he was apprenticed to Charles Lloyd Harford and in the course of time he became expert in his own branch
  • ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), poet and writer of prophecies According to John Davies and Thomas Stephens, he flourished about 1240. He is referred to in Peniarth MS 94 (26) and Llanstephan MS. 119 (82), as living about 1038, and contemporary with Goronwy Ddu o Fôn. But in G. P. Jones, Anglesey Court Rolls, 1346, 37, 39, mention is made of 'the son of Adda Fras ' and 'the suit of Goronwy Ddu, attorney for the community of the township of Porthgir.' In
  • AELHAEARN (fl. 7th century), patron saint He was, according to the lists, the son of Hygarfael, son of Cyndrwyn of Llystin Wennan, now Moel Feliarth, in the parish of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire. He is the reputed founder of Guilsfield, Llanaelhaearn, and an extinct chapel of the same name, now covered by Gwyddelwern. His name, which often appears in the form Elhaearn, is also commemorated in Ffynnon Aelhaearn, a holy well, formerly
  • AFAN (fl. early 6th century), patron saint He is described as the son of Cedig ap Ceredig ap Cunedda Wledig, and is associated, as ' Afan Buellt,' with the cantref of the name in Mid Wales. Here are two of his churches, viz. Llanafan-fawr and Llanafan-fach; the third is Llanafan in the valley of the Ystwyth. An inscription of c. 1300 at Llanafan-fawr runs: 'Hic iacet sanctus Avanus Episcopus'; from this it has been inferred that he ruled
  • AIDAN (fl. 6th century), saint Known also as Aidus, Maidoc, and Madoc. His 'Life,' as preserved in Cotton. Vesp. MS. A. xiv at the British Museum and as printed in Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, reveals Aidan as a saint connected chiefly with Ireland. His youth was, however, spent in south-west Wales, where he was a pupil of S. David, and where his name has been preserved in church appellations and place-names. Traditionally close
  • AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader time initially in South Shields. He sought to establish a centre for the fellowship and mosque in both cities, and his organisational capacity, personal zeal and drive, as well as no doubt a considerable charisma, meant he succeeded to various degrees in both endeavours. While in South Shields, al-Hakimi married Miriam Abdullah, the daughter of a late Yemeni sailor and his British wife, who was
  • ALBAN DAVIES, DAVID (1873 - 1951), business man and philanthropist . He was a founder-member and chairman of Aberystwyth and District Old People's Housing Society when it purchased Deva, a residence for old people which benefited greatly by his generosity. He was particularly interested in improvements in agriculture and donated £10,000 to the Department of Animal Health, U.C.W., Aberystwyth. He was president of the North Cardiganshire Farmers' Co-operative Society
  • ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist Born 24 June 1901, in Walthamstow, London, the eldest son of David Alban Davies and Rachel (née Williams) his wife, both of Cardiganshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and gained a scholarship to St. John's College, Oxford, but could not afford to go there. He went to Cornell University, U.S.A., for two years to study agriculture and dairying and worked for a short while in
  • ALBAN, Sir FREDERICK JOHN (1882 - 1965), chartered accountant and administrator the gold medal of the Society of Incorporated Accountants and Auditors. He was also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. For two years he was accountant to the United Water Board of Pontypridd and Rhondda, when he came to the notice of Thomas Jones (1870 - 1955) who saw in him the making of a deputy accountant for the Welsh National Insurance Commission, a post which he held from 1912
  • ALEN, RHISIART ap RHISIART, author of 'Carol ymddiddan ag un marw ynghylch Purdan' The carol can be found in NLW MS 1559B, pp.313-5, written early in the 17th century by William Bodwrda of Aberdaron. The date of composition of this carol may, however, be considerably earlier than the manuscript, particularly as the existence of purgatory is taken for granted as an unquestioned fact. Most of the poems in the collection are by poets from Llyn, and this would suggest that the
  • ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan (fl. 1540-1570), a poetess ), registrar of St Asaph, Thomas Lloyd of Vaynol (died 1602), William Lloyd, M.A., rector of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant and Llanfechain, 1590-1600, and Llanwrin, and canon of St Asaph cathedral, 1587-1600, and Edward Lloyd (died 1639), proctor of St Asaph. Little has been preserved of her bardic compositions - englynion on the type of husband she desired and on her views on her father's second marriage in old