Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster , where she collaborated with her colleague Rhyda A. Jones, who taught music: their carol, 'Ymdaenai cyfrin lenni'r nos' was published by Oxford University Press and the National Council of Music in 1932 and again in Carolau Hen a Newydd in 1954. It was in Barry also that she completed her research on the life and work of the poet 'Golyddan' (John Robert Pryse, 1840-1862), and was awarded a University
BASSETT, RICHARD (1777 - 1852), Methodist cleric brought him to the notice of David Jones of Llan-gan. He now began to consort with the Methodists, but, although he attended their societies and associations and was one of the trustees of their chapels in Glamorgan, he succeeded in retaining his Church of England appointment until his death. He was probably the last clergyman in Wales to be associated with the Methodists. His brother ELIAS BASSETT, a
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet published The Artist in Wales (1957), an attempt to awaken a response to art in Wales. In 1959 his father published 17 original poems by David Bell written between 1938 and 1954, in a private edition of 65 copies, under the title Nubian Madonna and other poems. He married Megan Hinton Jones of Aberystwyth in 1944, and they had two sons. When he was 14 years of age David Bell contracted encephalitis
BELL, Sir HAROLD IDRIS (1879 - 1967), scholar and translator (1929), translated by Olwen Roberts, the wife of J.E. Jones. In 1954 he published The Crisis of our Time and other papers, consisting of essays on the state of society, Welsh nationalism, the attitude of the Church in Wales towards Welsh culture, and his own religious experience as a convert from agnosticism to the Christian faith. Bell was a man of great charm and courtesy, who retained his natural
BERWYN, RICHARD JONES (1836 - 1917), colonist and man of letters Born at Glyndyfrdwy, his original surname being Jones. He went to London as a young man – he is listed as a student at Borough Road teacher training college in 1852 – and then emigrated to New York. Here he was one of the two who accepted the invitation of Michael D. Jones to emigrate to Patagonia. Returning to Wales he went out to the Welsh colony in 1865 with the first batch of emigrants. He
BEUNO (d. 642?), patron saint commemoration, history has little to tell of the saint. The only extant life is a brief Welsh summary of about 1350 contained in the Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi Brefi (ed. J. Morris-Jones and J. Rhys, Oxford, 1894). This makes him a scion of the royal stock of Morgannwg, born on the banks of the Severn in Powys, educated at Caerwent, settled at Berriw (until driven away by the approach of the English
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist The youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Vaughan, Derllys Court, Carmarthenshire. She was christened 30 October 1698 at Merthyr church by Thomas Thomas, the rector. Noted as patron of the Welsh circulating schools, she must have known Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, from girlhood, as her father was organizer of S.P.C.K. schools in Carmarthenshire from 1700 to 1722 and Griffith Jones was in charge
BEVAN, LLEWELYN DAVID (1842 - 1918), Independent minister ), Athro Anianeg Fourth son of Llewelyn David Bevan. He was a professor of physics at the Royal Holloway College; his career and work are described by T. Iorwerth Jones in "The contributions of Welshmen to science", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1932-3, 54-6.
BEVAN, THOMAS (1796? - 1819), missionary in the service of the London Missionary Society at Pen-y-banc and later to colleges at Newtown and at Gosport. It was now decided that he and Stephen Laidler should go to Madagascar. He was ordained at Neuadd-lwyd, 20-21 August 1817, and married Mary Jones (née Jacob) of Pen-yr-allt Wen in the same district. They sailed for Madagascar 9 February, arriving in Mauritius 3 July 1818. Five weeks later Bevan embarked again, and landed at Tamatave
BLACKWELL, HENRY (1851 - 1928), bookbinder and bookseller, bibliographer and biographer Born 2 August 1851, the son of Richard Blackwell, of Northop, Flintshire, and Arabella (neé Jones), of Rhosesmor, Flintshire. His father is probably the Richard Blackwell of Liverpool who is described in a Liverpool directory of that year (1851) as a bookbinder with an address at 10 Chester Street, Toxteth Park. In 1873 the name of Henry Blackwell, who can safely be identified as Richard's son
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, the family was continued by Griffith's son EVAN LLOYD ap GRIFFITH and by his grandson THOMAS AP EVAN LLOYD whose son, DAVID LLOYD BLAYNEY, was sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1577 and 1585. David Lloyd Blayney's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Jones of Bishop's Castle, and their eldest son, LEWIS BLAYNEY, was deputy-sheriff to his father in 1577 and 1585. Lewis Blayney married Bridget, daughter
BOLD, HUGH (1731 - 1809), lawyer The Bold's appear to have been blacksmiths who lived and worked in a village outside Brecon, and the father of Hugh Bold was ' trumpeter to the Corporation of Brecon.' Hugh Bold became a lawyer's clerk at the Brecon office of John Philipps (of Tre-gaer near Llanfrynach - see Theophilus Jones, IV, 37), married his employer's daughter, and eventually succeeded him in the business. In this way he

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