Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer attained the rank of captain. He served as an officer on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General. He was elected the Liberal MP for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945 as the successor to the recently deceased Sir David Owen Evans, and was re-elected there in five successive general elections, but was defeated by D. Elystan Morgan (Labour) in the general election of 1966. Bowen - 'the
BOWND, WILLIAM, Arminian Baptist He lived at Garth Fawr in the parish of Llandinam, Montgomeryshire, but worshipped with the Arminian Baptists of Radnorshire. There is no record of his having received a stipend for his ministry after 1658. He debated publicly with Alexander Parker and John Moon, the Quakers, at Scurwy, a farm near Rhayader (see the article on HUGH EVANS (? - 1656). After his early death his widow married William
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar by translating and publishing a selection of his papers in The Beginnings of Welsh Poetry (1972). She prepared with D. Simon Evans both English and Welsh editions of the major medieval tale of Culhwch and Olwen (1988 and 1997), based on the study which had been pioneered by her friend Sir Idris Foster. Conscious of her own duty towards scholarship she organised with Professor Foster Cylch yr
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician Barbara Brooke was born on 14 January 1908 at Great Milton, Llanwern, Monmouthshire, the youngest of the five children of the Rev. Alfred Augustus Matthews (7 February 1864 - 13 August 1946), vicar of St. Paul's Church, Newport, and a Welsh rugby international, and Ethel Frances (died 1951), daughter of Dr. Edward Beynon Evans, of Swansea. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and
BRYCHAN (fl. mid 5th century), saint wife. The ' De Situ Brecheniauc ' (Wade-Evans, Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae, 313-15), which, together with the ' Cognacio Brychan ' (Wade-Evans, op. cit., 315-18), forms the main authority for his legend, attributes to Brychan eleven sons and twenty-five daughters, and his family forms one of the three saintly tribes of Wales. 6 April is generally quoted as his feast day.
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer . His Covent Garden debut was in 1963, and in the same year he made his Glyndebourne debut as Nick in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. His US debut came in 1967 as Lescaut in Manon and Donner in Das Rheingold with the San Francisco Opera; these appearances may have been prompted by the influence of Geraint Evans, who performed there in seventeen successive seasons. By 1970 he was well established as
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister religious matter. Among them may be noted The Vicar of Llandovery, 1821, 1830, an English version of the works of Rhys Prichard; Memoirs of the Life of Howell Harris, 1824; and Memoirs of Benjamin Evans (one of his predecessors at Albany), 1826.
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director . Burton possessed, from an early age, what he called 'theatre addiction.' A precocious youngster - he had memorised the whole of Dickens' A Christmas Carol by the age of ten - he relished the cultural offerings in the south Wales valleys, attending whenever possible, Mountain Ash's Empire Theatre and Nixon's Workmen's Institute, devouring melodrama, Shakespeare and whatever performances came his way
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher great reader and was wont to recite the Bardd Cwsc and the Pilgrim's Progress at the knitting-meetings. After being a farm boy in several places, he became (c. 1771) a servant at Fedw Arian, Bala, under the preacher William Evans, who had already attracted him to Methodism. About 1777 he married Judith Humphreys (or ' Erasmus '; she died c. 1795-6). Of his nine children, the four sons died before him
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician with a 5,944 majority over H. Arthur Evans. Callaghan represented constituencies in the Cardiff area until his retirement in 1987. His success can be attributed to his care for his constituents and his communication skills. He could talk easily with people of every community, from the working class district of Splott to the more varied population of Llanrumney, and after 1983, the affluent middle
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician Martha Hughes Cannon was born in Madoc Street, Llandudno on 1 July 1857, the second of the three daughters of Peter Hughes (c.1825-1861), a carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth (née Evans, c.1833-1923). At the time, there was a small Mormon community flourishing in the old village of Llandudno on the Great Orme, of which Peter and Elizabeth Hughes were probably members. Their last address in Wales
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist Cayo Evans was born on 22 April 1937 at Glandenys, Silian, a mansion on the main road two miles west of Lampeter. His father, John Cayo Evans (1879-1958), was Professor of Mathematics at St David's College, Lampeter and he was High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1941-42. His mother was Freda Cayo Evans (née Cluneglas) from Cellan, Ceredigion. Cayo Evans was educated at Millfield School in Somerset

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