Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Born at S. Asaph, where he served as a schoolmaster. According to Josiah Thomas Jones in his Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru, he became a Methodist and lived for many years in Montgomeryshire, where he welcomed itinerant preachers to his house. Two of his carols, a song against drunkenness and another against worldly desires, are printed in Cyfaill i'r Cymro, collected by William Hope of
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist himself to open people's eyes to the delights of the Pembrokeshire coast where there is so much to see and to discover. Such was the success that his initiative was quickly taken up in other national parks and the wider countryside. He was a regular broadcaster on natural history programmes, both radio and television and perhaps best remembered are the listeners' question sessions with Derek Jones in
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette Rachel Barrett was born on 12 November 1874 at 23 Union Street, Carmarthen, the second child of Ann Barrett (née Jones, 1839-c.1906) and Rees Barrett (1812-1878), a road surveyor. Both her parents were Welsh-speakers. Her father died when she was four years old and the family moved to a property in Morley Street. Rachel attended Stratford Abbey School in Stroud as a boarder and, having excelled
BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Born in London, the son of Thomas Barrett and a Welsh mother (Mary Lewis) from Dinas Mawddwy, at which place the family was brought up. The father was a skilled violin player. William Barrett was given violin lessons when he was quite young; he also learned to play the flute. He was apprenticed to a merchant in Old Change, S. Paul's, London. He received further instruction on the flute from
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist (there is a copy in NLW MS 12416D) was read at a meeting of the Royal Society held 6 June 1771. His notes on 'The Language of Birds' were reprinted in T. Pennant, British Zoology. There are letters from Barrington to friends in North Wales in NLW MS 2065E (one dated 19 October 1775, to Paul Panton, senior), regarding Inigo Jones, Sir John Wynne of Gwydir and Llanrwst bridge, NLW MS 3484C (dated 8 March
BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric February 1784, and his body was brought to S. Athan for burial. Elegies to his memory were written by John Williams, S. Athan, 1728 - 1806, and William Williams, Pantycelyn. At the same time David Jones, Llan-gan, published a booklet giving an account of his life: Llythyr oddiwrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim y Prydydd … (Trevecka, 1784).
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster , where she collaborated with her colleague Rhyda A. Jones, who taught music: their carol, 'Ymdaenai cyfrin lenni'r nos' was published by Oxford University Press and the National Council of Music in 1932 and again in Carolau Hen a Newydd in 1954. It was in Barry also that she completed her research on the life and work of the poet 'Golyddan' (John Robert Pryse, 1840-1862), and was awarded a University
BASSETT, RICHARD (1777 - 1852), Methodist cleric brought him to the notice of David Jones of Llan-gan. He now began to consort with the Methodists, but, although he attended their societies and associations and was one of the trustees of their chapels in Glamorgan, he succeeded in retaining his Church of England appointment until his death. He was probably the last clergyman in Wales to be associated with the Methodists. His brother ELIAS BASSETT, a
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer The date and place of his birth are uncertain. Born c. 1575, probably at Carmarthen, because of the prevalence of the Bayly surname there, and the particular reference to the town in his last will. Possibly the son of Thomas Bayly who was a curate at Carmarthen that year. He was at Abermarlais for a period and had the patronage of the family that lived there. He went to Exeter College, Oxford
BAYLY, THOMAS (1608 - 1657) - see BAYLY, LEWIS
BEADLES, ELISHA (1670 - 1734), Quaker and writer lleshad i bawb. Beadles also wrote a preface to Theodor Eccleston's replies to Thomas Andrews, vicar of Llanover, who had written about Quakers to a Pontypool parishioner. He sent an account of the beginnings of Quakerism in South Wales to the Meeting for Sufferings in London, dated 21 August 1720. He died in 1734.
BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter official inventory) reveals theological differences between them; and by December 1748 (Trevecka letter 1836) it would seem that Beaumont had not only veered into Antinomianism but was preaching other heterodox doctrines, in association with his disciple Thomas Sheen - these fluctuations of opinion were characteristic of the confusion which led to the Methodist cleavage of 1750-62. But Beaumont, like his

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