Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
BOWEN, DAVID (1774 - 1853) Felinfoel, minister Born at Bryn Bach, Felinfoel, 11th December 1774. He was baptised by Daniel Davies, Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, 14 May 1797 and he started to preach in 1798. He was ordained by Titus Lewis and Joshua Watkins, Carmarthen, on 25 August 1806 to be joint-minister with Daniel Davies and he lived at Pantlludw. In 1831 Seion, Llanelli was formed as a church and Bowen was selected by the congregation to
BOWEN, DAVID (Myfyr Hefin; 1874 - 1955), minister (B) and editor school at Pontypridd and to the University College at Cardiff for the year 1908-09. He won the chair at the students' eisteddfod in January 1909. He was called to the pastorate of Bethel, Lower Chapel, near Brecon and laboured there to restore Welsh as he had seen William Morris do at Noddfa, Treorchy. For this period of his life see his booklets Oriau Hefin (1902), Emynau pen y mynydd (1905), and
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian came under the influence of the Principal, Dr. Pennar Davies, and he began to learn Welsh. He gained the degree of BD in 1958; then with the help of a grant from the World Council of Churches he went as a research student to the University of Princeton, U.S.A. where he was awarded the degree of MTh. in 1959 for his thesis on the Church of South India. Whilst in the USA he visited the offices of the
BOWEN, EMRYS GEORGE (1900 - 1983), geographer Gogledd Ceredigion' (Llawlyfr Undeb Bedyddwyr Cymru, Aberystwyth, 1972, 10-19). As a tribute to him and as a representation of the scope of his work two former students published a selection of his writings (H. Carter and W. K. D. Davies, eds, Geography, Culture and Habitat, 1975), a book which contains an extended exegesis of his work by the editors and a bibliography to that date. Bowen's commitment
BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer retirement of Clement Davies in September 1956. There was a strong Welsh faction within the Liberal Party which pressed for Bowen's election to the vacant leadership. Although his prospects of success were very slim, he did harbour something of a grudge thereafter, and his relations with Grimond remained distinctly frosty until his election defeat in 1966. During the Suez Crisis of 1956, he defended the
BRADFORD, JOHN (1706 - 1785), weaver, fuller, and dyer in Upper Glamorgan in the first half of the 18th century. Nevertheless, only a few of his poetic works are extant, and these do not reach a high standard. He corresponded with William Wynn, Llangynhafal and Lewis Morris, and he was elected a member of the Hon. Society of Cymmrodorion, London. He was also of some repute as a rationalist, and, although we do not know the details, it can be concluded
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter workshop of William Morris in Oxford Street in 1882. After two years there he earned his living as a travelling artist in England before going to the continent, the Middle East and South Africa. In 1896 he married a nurse, Lucy Ray (died 1924), and settled in Hammersmith, London, but they had no children. He died in Ditchling, Sussex, 11 June 1956. He was regarded as the greatest decorator of his time
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman , Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare, read an extract from 'In Praise of the Chairman of Committees', verses written by Lord Cledwyn, while his brother, Adam Bruce, read 'Carmarthenshire' by Dudley Garnet Davies. Lord Aberdare left an estate of £651,978 net.
BRYAN, JOHN (1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister experience of conversion in December 1798 and joined the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists at Chester, but he soon transferred his membership to the Octagon, the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the city. In February 1800 he began to preach as a local preacher, and during the next eighteen months he gave useful assistance to Owen Davies and John Hughes, the two missionaries appointed by the Methodist conference to
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer the B.A. and Mus. Bac. degrees, but a severe breakdown in health in 1893 compelled him to leave Oxford and to give up all work for a long period. Until 1903 he lived mainly at Wrexham and Marchwiel; in that year he moved to Caernarvon, where his brothers, Edward and Joseph Davies Bryan (infra), who were in business in Egypt, had a house. From that date Robert Bryan spent most of his winters in Egypt
BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691 - 1760), squire and diarist Prichard's outlook on things: he granted him a lease for twenty-one years on the two Clwchdernogs in the parish of Llanddeusant but quarrelled with him in 1760, broke the old lease, but allowed Prichard a new one for eighteen years. Bulkeley was no Dissenter, but it gave him a malicious joy to see the long faces of men like Owen Morris of Paradwys, Henry Troughton of Bodlew, and the 6th viscount Bulkeley

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