Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 'T. Gwynn Jones' (Yr Efrydydd, I (1950)), 'Thomas Gwynn Jones a David de Lloyd,' (Y Traethodydd, Ionawr 1971), 'I Aberystwyth Draw' (Taliesin, 24 (1972)). In 1950 he published jointly with his father his Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg - Cymraeg (Caerdydd: Hughes a'i Fab a'r Educational Publishing Company), a revised edition of which appeared in 1953. In Taliesin, 16 (Nadolig, 1969, pp. 120-5, in his
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT (1857 - 1943), physician and alienist Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school, Wrexham, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised in
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, (27 March 1678). The charges were examined by a committee presided over by Sir John Trevor (1637 - 1717), which produced a full report resulting in the dispersal of the Jesuit house at Cwm, Herefordshire, and the executions of Frs. David Lewis, Philip Evans, John Lloyd, and others. Although a conforming Anglican, he worked in association with prominent local Dissenters like Samuel Jones, with whom
ASAPH (fl. c. 600), reputed founder of the see of St Asaph singled out as his successor and who was accordingly consecrated bishop in his stead, when he returned to Strathclyde. Whatever may underlie this story, it is noteworthy that there is no local commemoration of Cyndeyrn, while Asaph's name is preserved in Llanasa, Pantasa, and Ffynnon Asa, all in northern Flintshire. His festival day is 1 May; the Breviary of Aberdeen has an office for him. Nothing is
ASSER (d. 909), bishop and scholar He is known almost entirely from what he tells us of himself in his life of king Alfred. He belonged to the clerical community of S. Davids, where he was brought up and educated, being a relative of bishop Nobis, who died in 873. In due course, he succeeded to the see and therewith acquired a reputation for scholarship, which spread beyond the borders of Wales. Thus it came about that in or
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge Matrimonial Causes Act 1937). While spending time at his Welsh home in Aberdyfi, Lord Atkin regularly sat as a magistrate in the local court. While in London, he was involved in the work of the London Welsh Trust, serving as its president 1938-1944. Lord Atkin died in Aberdyfi on 25 June 1944 following the contraction of bronchitis, and he was buried in the cemetery of St Peter's Church in Aberdyfi.
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales enjoyed. After serving an apprenticeship as an engineer he was accepted as a student for the ministry and received his training at the Methodist College in Handsworth, Birmingham. Even at this time he had a series of confrontations with the college authorities but he was appointed Probationer Minister at St John's Church, Risca, Gwent, in 1930. He adopted the Social Gospel and challenged the militant
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer pronounced the bishop of Ross - ambassador from Mary the Queen of Scots with whom he is said to have sympathized (Aubrey, Lives, 15; Hist. MSS. Com., Cent., i, 542) - amenable to English courts in respect of his intrigues against Elizabeth, and many of his decisions in maritime law (especially on questions arising out of the naval war with Spain) had important international bearings; he was also concerned
AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN (1888 - 1969), politician, local historian and author Labour's early struggles in Swansea (1949), Let us talk of Barry (1954), Llancarfan: the village of a thousand saints (1957), The story of St. Athan and Aberthaw (1959), I searched for Llantwit Major (1965), St. Donat's Castle and the Stradlings (1966), The Baptists in Barry for 150 years (1967), and Fourteen talks about Barry (1968). He also published many articles on aspects of local history. He
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors Though the Dowlais Iron Co. had been formed in 1759 and John Guest of Broseley had been engaged as its manager early in 1760, it was ANTHONY BACON (1717 - 1786) who was the real originator of the pre-eminence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Great Britain, and who converted it from a hamlet into a flourishing manufacturing town. He was baptized on 24 January 1717 at St Bees
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic Wallis, vicar of Abergavenny, and sister to Dr. David Lewis, Master of Requests and Judge of Admiralty, who became David's godfather. Both parents conformed without enthusiasm to Elizabeth's Church settlement, and their children were brought up accordingly. At 12, David was sent to Christ's Hospital, mainly for the sake of learning English, then little spoken in Abergavenny; he also acquired there a
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer onto the production of Undercover (1943), a wartime film about Yugoslav guerrillas. Six months later, Baker was given a role in Emlyn Williams's The Druid's Rest. First performed at St Martin's Theatre in London in 1944, the play was likewise notable as Richard Burton's stage debut. 'That gave me the real taste for the theatrical profession', Baker later recalled. In the aftermath of The Druid's Rest

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