Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BRACE, WILLIAM (1865 - 1947), miners' leader and M.P. conflict. This antagonism led to successful legal proceedings for libel being taken by Abraham against Brace. At the conclusion of the miners' strike of 1898, however, the South Wales Miners' Federation was formed, with Abraham as president and Brace as vice-president of the executive council. In 1899 Brace, along with Abraham and John Williams, attended the annual conference of the Miners' Federation of
BRAOSE family , (2) Agnes, daughter of Nicholas de Molis, (3) Mary de Rus, founding a vigorous stock, the several families retaining their identity and succeeding to the family claims on the maternal side. By his third wife, William had two sons, RICHARD (died 1292) and PETER (died 1312). Richard married Alice de Longespee, their numerous descendants holding the manors of Whittingham and Akenham, Suffolk; Stinton
BREESE, EDWARD (1835 - 1881), antiquary Born at Carmarthen 13 April 1835, son of John Breese, Congregational minister, and Margaret, daughter of David Williams of Saethon in Llŷn. His father's death in 1842 threw him upon the care of his mother's kindred, who were influential in south Caernarvonshire. In particular, his uncle, David Williams of Bron Eryri already far advanced in a prosperous career as lawyer and politician, was able to
BREESE, JOHN (1789 - 1842), Independent minister many occasions walked to and from Manchester to minister to the church at that place. He became famous throughout the length and breadth of Wales as a preacher - so much so that, during this period, he and William Williams (1781 - 1840) were the preachers mostly in demand at preaching assemblies. In 1835 he moved to Carmarthen to take charge of the church in Lammas Street, but shortly afterwards his
BREWER, JEHOIADA (1752? - 1817), Independent minister and hymn-writer minister of Carr's Lane chapel, Birmingham, in succession to Dr. Edward Williams of Rotherham; but in 1802 accompanied a secession thence to Livery Street. He died 24 August 1817 while a large new chapel in Steelhouse Lane was being built for him. Some of his sermons were published, and several of his hymns, e.g. ' Hiding Place ' and ' Star of Bethlehem ' (translated into Welsh), became very popular.
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar sit at the feet of Sir Ifor Williams in Bangor, the textual scholar par excellence whom she hero-worshipped, considering him a greater scholar than Chadwick himself. Encouraged by him Rachel began her work on the Triads. On the eve of the war in 1939 Rachel married a brilliant fellow student, John I'A Bromwich, (1915-1990) the son of a distinguished mathematician, Thomas Bromwich (1875-1929) who had
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier father being a most complete lover of his own valleys and hills.' Before joining the army he had walked with (Sir) Rhys Williams of Miskin 'from South to North Wales' and had become a 'worshipper of the wild Welsh mountain scenery' (p. 25). His teacher in rural matters was a farmer from the valley and according to Longstaff, Bruce used to sing Welsh airs with gusto. He married Finetta Madeline Julia
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Born at Duffryn, Aberdare, 16 April 1815, the second son of John Bruce Pryce by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, rector of S. Peter's, Barbadoes. (The family name was originally Knight, John Bruce Pryce being the son of John Knight of Llanblethian and Margaret, daughter of William Bruce of Cowbridge.) Bruce received his early education at S. Omer, but at the age
BRYAN, JOHN (1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister Born at Llanfyllin, where he spent much of his childhood with his uncle, a certain John Rogers. At the age of 12 he moved to Shrewsbury, and then in the course of the following years to Corwen, Bala, and Wrexham, whence, in 1798, he went to Chester as an assistant in the drapery business of the Misses Williams, daughters of Richard Williams of Rackery, near Gresford. He underwent the spiritual
BRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist Born 1 February 1832 at Castellau, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, son of Daniel Bryant, Efailisaf, Llantrisant. He received tuition in harp-playing from Llewelyn Williams ('Alawydd y De') for about two years. He was a competent player of the pedal harp, took part in many eisteddfodau and concerts in South Wales, and served as adjudicator in some eisteddfodau. He arranged variations for the harp on
BRYANT, TOM (1882 - 1946), harpist Born 22 July, 1882, at the Carpenter's Arms, Efailisaf, near Pontypridd, Glamorganshire John Bryant, his uncle, taught him to play the harp. He began to compete at eisteddfodau at a young age, winning many prizes. He took the first prize at the National Eisteddfod from 1891 to 1896. With Watkin Hezekiah Williams, and Robert Rees, the former lecturing on folk-songs and the latter singing to

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