Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEVAN, HOPKIN (1765 - 1839), Calvinistic Methodist minister from end to end. He was also a writer of books and of hymns, and published Marwnad…Griffydd Morgans (an elegy) (Caerfyrddin, I. Daniel, 1796), Hymnau a Phenillion (hymns) (Abertawy, E. Griffiths, 1838), Ychydig Hanes neu Goffawdwriaeth (Abertawy, E. Griffiths, 1838). In the two latter books there are several hymns and elegies, and the last, in particular, is a valuable chronicle of the beginnings 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
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author Kate Bosse-Griffiths was born in Wittenberg, Germany, on 16 July 1910, the second of four children of Paul Bosse (1881-1947), a doctor and head of Wittenberg town hospital, and his wife Käthe Bosse (née Levin, 1886-1944). Käthe Julia Gertrud Bosse was of Jewish descent through her mother, but was brought up a Lutheran. As Kate Bosse-Griffiths she made a unique contribution to twentieth-century
BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, the eldest son of James Bowen and Alice, daughter of Robert Rowe and married Easter, daughter of William Thomas, Pentowyn, Carmarthenshire, and they had six sons and six daughters. Anne, one of the daughters, became the wife of the Rev. David Griffiths, Nevern. Llwyn-gwair served as a stepping stone for John Wesley on his journeyings to and from Ireland (see Wesley, Diaries), whilst David Jones
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer Edward (Eddie) Bowen was born 14 January 1911, the youngest of four children of George Bowen (steelworker in tinplate works) and Ellen Ann (née Owen) of Cockett, Swansea, Glamorganshire. He attended Sketty Primary School and gained scholarships to the Municipal Secondary School, Swansea and to the University College of Swansea, graduating BSc (Physics, 1st class honours, 1930) with MSc degree in
BOWEN, THOMAS (1756 - 1827), Independent minister Born 1756 in the Capel Isaac neighbourhood, of humble parents. He was compelled to earn his living from a very early age, but the farmer for whom he worked encouraged him to get lessons from John Griffiths (1731 - 1811) of Glandŵr, and in 1777 he went to the Abergavenny Academy. In 1781 he was called to Maes-yr-onnen where he was responsible for a considerable increase in the vitality of the
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. Born at Risca, Monmouth, 23 September 1865, son of Thomas and Ann Brace; ed. at Risca board school. When he was 12 years of age he began to earn his living as a collier at Risca colliery, and as he grew older he took a keen interest in labour problems. In 1890 he married Nellie, daughter of William and Harriet Humphreys of Cwmcarn, Monmouth. In the same year he was appointed miners' agent for the
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter Born in Bruges, Belgium, 12 May 1867, the third son of William Curtis Brangwyn (died 1907 in Cardiff) and Eleanor (née Griffiths) his wife who hailed from Brecon. His father was a church architect and manufactured church furniture in Bruges but the family returned to London in 1875. Frank Brangwyn, who had very little formal education, learnt drawing in South Kensington Museum and entered the
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer daughter Elizabeth married Col. John Poyer, and his daughter Ann married Rowland Laugharne. The places of his death and burial are not known.
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician campaign against the rearmament of Germany. In 1947-1948 he felt that he and Jim Griffiths deserved credit for their contribution to the success of the ports and docks of south Wales. Callaghan was not initially in favour of creating a Secretary of State for Wales, but like Aneurin Bevan he changed his mind in the belief that priority had been given to the Forth Bridge in Scotland rather than the Severn

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