Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician young children. The second was Llywodraeth y cestyll (1934), bringing the story down to the end of the fifteenth century. Then came Machlud yr Oesoedd Canol (1950), Cyfnod y Tuduriaid (1939) and Machlud y mynachlogydd (1937). These historical works are noteworthy for two reasons. First of all, the author made use of Welsh literary sources, as well as the more usual historical sources such as state
BEDO PHYLIP BACH (fl. 1480), poet of Brecknock Author of eleven cywyddau. He has been identified with Bedo Brwynllys because both appear to belong to the same district, but one manuscript (only) expresses uncertainty.
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet appointed Assistant Director (Art) under the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council, and in 1951 he became Curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. David Bell collaborated with his father on the translation of some of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poems which appeared in 1942 under the title Dafydd ap Gwilym: fifty poems as vol. 48 of Y Cymmrodor. He was the author of 24 translations. He provided the English
BELL, RONALD MCMILLAN (1914 - 1982), Conservative politician , and it was he who led the rebels in the House of Commons against the Race Relations Act of 1965. He was the author of the volume Crown Proceedings (1948). He married in 1954 Elizabeth Audrey, the daughter of Kenneth Gossell, MC of Burwash, Sussex, and they had two sons and two daughters. They lived at First House, West Witheridge, Knotty Green, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, while Bell conducted his
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors -tempered and a gifted speaker. He maintained contact with his home town and in conjunction with his brothers rescued some local coal mines from closure, to their own loss. In 1936 he and his younger brother, then Lord KEMSLEY, presented a new clock tower to Merthyr parish church. He was director of several companies in south Wales and became a governor of Christ College, Brecon in 1929. He was the author
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author
BLEDRI ap CYDIFOR (fl. 1116-30), chieftain as an authority about 1160 by the author of a French romance of Tristan, and also the ' Bleheris ' of an early form of the Perceval legend.
BLIGH, STANLEY PRICE MORGAN (1870 - 1949), landowner and author
BONARJEE, DOROTHY NOEL (1894 - 1983), poet and lawyer herself as the author (The Cambrian Daily Leader, 2 March 1914). She also reportedly came close to winning the competition the previous year. Her success received significant publicity in the local and national press. Her father, who gave an impromptu speech at the ceremony in response to demands from the students, reportedly said: 'if India had given birth to a poet, Wales had educated her, and had
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author , and particularly for her frankness in discussing parts of women's lives still taboo in Welsh literature, such their sexuality, and related subjects like adultery and abortion. Anesmwyth Hoen won the Llyfrau'r Dryw competition in 1941, yet in his review E. Tegla Davies asked if the author could 'moderate and economise upon those areas which could cause misunderstanding and pain'. In her more factual
BOWEN, D.E. (fl. 1840-80), editor, author and Baptist minister in U.S.A.
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter Vivian Gallery, Swansea, but his pictures are to be found in many European cities, including Bruges where there is a gallery dedicated to his work, and in Australia. There is also a large collection of his work in the National Museum of Wales. He was the author of Belgium (1916) and The way of the cross (1935). He received many high honours both in the United Kingdom and on the continent; he was

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