Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL, EDWARD (1786 - 1857), Wesleyan minister
ANWYL, Sir EDWARD (1866 - 1914), Celtic scholar
ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author , Caernarfonshire, where he died, by drowning, 23 July 1949; he was buried in Penllech, Caernarfonshire churchyard. A younger brother of Sir Edward Anwyl, he contributed extensively to the Welsh press. He edited reprints of Drych y prif oesoedd and Gweledigaethau y Bardd Cwsc, was author of Y pulpud bach (1924), Yr arian mawr (1934), Fy hanes i fy hunan (1933), and Englynion (1933), and prepared translations
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian Dystiolaeth (Dolgellau, 1895), i.e. the evidence given by Edward Davies, Llandinam, before the Welsh Land Commission.
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge intervention, but his greatest service was his strong advocacy of making the teaching of law a part of the general scheme of education. To this end he delivered many lectures on law to schools. He favoured holding classes in universities to give education in law to lay students who did not intend to become lawyers, and with that in mind he wrote a Foreword to Edward Jenks, Book of English Law (1928), and was
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge to obtain briefs connected with the broking firms and Stock Exchange. The success of his commercial law practice reflects the influence during his pupillage of his master Thomas Edward Scrutton; eventually both men were sat together in the Court of Appeal. After more than twenty years practice as a barrister, Atkin became a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court in 1913 and was
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales was to criticise the Labour Party (a political party he had joined when he was 16) and the churches in Wales for being so ineffective. The leaders within the Synod were disturbed with him and arranged for him to be moved to Cornwall. Atkin refused to accept their verdict. The Reverend Edward Morgan, a Congregationalist minister in Cardiff, heard of Atkin's refusal, and suggested to a number of
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors 28 January 1806, bought the Mathews estate at Aberaman, and retired there. In February 1814 he sold his entire mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000. He died at Aberaman, 11 August 1827, and was buried at Speen, Berks. Anthony Bacon II was the father of ANTHONY BACON III, usually called General Bacon, (1796 - 1864). He married Lady Charlotte Mary, second daughter of Edward
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer Rattigan's play Adventure Story (1949), Derek Twist's comedy film All Over Town (1949), and in an uncredited role in the crime film Obsession (1949) directed by the American exile Edward Dmytryk. He also joined Middlesex Repertory Theatre. At the start of the 1950s, Baker combined film and theatre with television acting creating a portfolio of work which included the 1951 Festival of Britain tour of
BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books pieces of the poems of Rees Prichard … Dictionary - like in Welch and English …, by Edward Barnes, Schoolmaster at Caerwys. The copy of this publication scheduled as NLW MS 1477B has the date altered in ink to 1797, and 'Caerwys' changed to 'St. Asaph.'
BARNES, WALLEY (1920 - 1975), association footballer Born 16 January 1920 at Brecon, where his father, Sergeant Edward ('Teddy') Barnes, was stationed with the South Wales Borderers. Both Teddy and his wife Joyce (née Plummer), were born in north London. Walley Barnes was the third of their four children and the only one born in Wales. Edward and John were born in England, whilst Pearl, his only sister was born in India to where the family moved in
BARNWELL, EDWARD LOWRY (1813 - 1887), antiquary and schoolmaster

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