Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at
BELL, RICHARD (1859 - 1930), M.P. and trade union leader Born 29 November 1859 at Penderyn, Brecknock, son of Charles and Mary Bell. His paternal grandparents were Scots who moved from Lincoln to the Pantmawr farm at Ystradfellte. Shortly after 1860 his father, a quarryman, joined the Glamorgan police force and went to Merthyr Tydfil, where Richard had his scanty early education. He first worked as an office boy in the Cyfarthfa iron-works, but in 1876
BENNETT, RICHARD (1860 - 1937), Calvinistic Methodist historian Born 21 September 1860, at Hendre, Cwm Pennant, Llanbrynmair, son of Edward Bennett, farmer, and his wife Jane (Richards), who was of the same stock as Richard Lumley. He had only a primary education, and lived on his native farm till 1914, when he retired (owing to deafness) to Bangor, and afterwards to Caersws, where he died 13 August 1937, unmarried. Bennett had early shown a taste for
BERWYN, RICHARD JONES (1836 - 1917), colonist and man of letters
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist of schools at Laugharne (1709) and Llanddowror (1716). Moreover, Griffith Jones became connected by marriage with the Vaughan family, he and Richard Vaughan, Bridget's uncle (died 1729), marrying two sisters, Margaret and Arabella Philipps of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire On 30 December 1721 Bridget married ARTHUR BEVAN, barrister-at-law, Laugharne. Bevan became recorder of Carmarthen borough, 1722
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician pharmacy at 2 Old Plough Court, Oxford Street in 1715, but later practised physic at Hackney. In 1725 he had been elected F.R.S. on the proposal of Isaac Newton. A belated interest in Welsh antiquities brought him (now a retired man) in 1760 into contact with Richard Morris; and there are references to him in the Morris Letters (more especially ii, 265, 336-7, 416) which give us a picture of him: a
BIDWELL, MORRIS, Puritan preacher, under the Commonwealth renewed in 1653, he was appointed to do definite pastoral work at S. Mary's in Swansea. There in 1658 happened the fierce altercation with the Quaker John ap John who asked whether Bidwell was a true minister of Christ, and was struck in the face instead of getting an answer. He died before 1660, but a Royalist named Richard Seys had such an objection to his bones resting in the chancel of S. Mary's
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
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, he was made Keeper of the Records of Common Pleas, in 1657 commissioner of taxes for Anglesey and Caernarvonshire, and in 1659 he was again returned for Beaumaris in Richard Cromwell's Parliament, where he supported the new Protector's title, urged a strong foreign policy, and wished to disfranchise Brecon for a false return at the last election. At the same time he presented to his college a copy
BOSANQUET family ), made the court his chief seat and was sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1814. The grandson SAMUEL RICHARD BOSANQUET (1800 - 1882) gave a long life to the service of the county, in which he became chairman of quarter sessions. Meanwhile, the link with Wales was drawn closer by the acquisition of valuable Welsh manuscripts, among them an early Welsh version of Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was edited by
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician , replaced him with Richard Crossman in the summer of 1966. Bowden became Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs on 11 August 1966; the Queen told the Prime Minister, according to a confidential conversation between Wilson and Crossman, 'how delighted she was that that kind of non-political man was in the job'. As Lord President, Bowden had met the Queen frequently at the Privy Council. Bowden's
BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, (Llan-gan) performed many missions in London on behalf of George Bowen - arranging financial matters and making inquiries about suitable schools to which Bowen's children might be sent. He was high sheriff of Pembrokeshire in 1803. Bowen played his part in the gathering together of troops to be used against the French who landed at Fishguard (1797). He was a good landlord; Richard Fenton and others

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