Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BOOTH, FLORENCE ELEANOR (1861 - 1957), Salvationist and social reformer got off to an enthusiastic start and she gathered the first 120 girls in eight troops at Regent Hall, London. In 1921, she announced the formation of a new junior girls' organization, the Sunbeams, whose ages at that time would be eight or nine. Girls in many countries now benefit from the recreational, service and skill-building projects of these groups. When Commissioner Henry Howard retired as
BOSANQUET family Professor Henry Lewis in 1942 under the title Brut Dingestow. The collection had been originally formed by Sir JOHN BERNARD BOSANQUET (1773 - 1847), judge and man of letters, but passed to his nephew; it was acquired in 1916 by the N.L.W. One of the sons of S. R. Bosanquet (1800 - 1882) was Sir FREDERICK ALBERT BOSANQUET (1837 - 1923), judge of the Central Criminal Court from 1917. A member of the
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian David Bowen was born in Swansea 29 November 1933 where his parents, Henry and Violet (née Beynon) Bowen kept a grocer's shop. He received his early education at Swansea Grammar School (1945-1952) before proceeding to University College, Cardiff, in 1952, where he graduated in 1955 with an honours degree in Hebrew. For the next three years he studied at the Memorial College, Brecon. In Brecon he
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer one of seven members of a mission led by Henry Tizard with information on radar equipment and an early sample of a cavity magnetron recently invented at Birmingham University to develop centimetre-wave radar. He spent two years visiting various laboratories urging the use of shorter wavelengths, and helped to initiate the evolution of microwave radar as a fighting weapon. As a result he collaborated
BRAOSE family This powerful Marcher family took its name from Braose, near Falaise, in Normandy. WILLIAM DE BRAOSE, the first of the line in England, was granted the barony of Bramber (Sussex) at the time of the Conquest. He was succeeded by his son PHILIP (c. 1096), who conquered the lordships of Radnor and Builth, acquiring also through his wife the lordship of Totnes (Devon). He supported Henry I against
BRERETON, ANDREW (or HENRY) JONES (Andreas o Fôn; 1827 - 1885), writer
BRERETON, HENRY JONES - see BRERETON, ANDREW JONES
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician at the Gloucester Training College of Domestic Science. For a brief period, she taught in a secondary school at Dagenham, Essex, and also trained as a nurse at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. At a party given by her only brother at Balliol College, Oxford, she met Henry Brooke, whom she married on 22 April 1933. Barbara Brooke began her political career as a Conservative politician when she won the
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, BROUGHTON (c. 1544 - c. 1614), Ralph Broughton's grandson (and heir to the Plas Isa estate), added to it that of Marchwiel Hall by his marriage to the daughter of Henry Parry of Basingwerk and Marchwiel, and was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1608. His eldest son Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON was knighted in 1618 (18 March). In 1639 (22 January) he was pardoned (on the petition of his wife and the certificate of judge
BRUCE, CHARLES GRANVILLE (1866 - 1939), mountaineer and soldier Born 7 April 1866 in London, youngest son of H.A. Bruce, 1st Lord Aberdare and his second wife, Norah. He went to Harrow and then Repton schools but unlike his brother W.N. Bruce he did not continue his education, obtaining his commission in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in 1887 through the militia rather than Sandhurst. After joining the 5th Gurkha Rifles in 1889 he mastered
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Born at Duffryn, Aberdare, 16 April 1815, the second son of John Bruce Pryce by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, rector of S. Peter's, Barbadoes. (The family name was originally Knight, John Bruce Pryce being the son of John Knight of Llanblethian and Margaret, daughter of William Bruce of Cowbridge.) Bruce received his early education at S. Omer, but at the age
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman He was born at 67 Victoria Road, Kensington, on 16 June 1919, the elder son of Clarence Napier Bruce, later 3rd Baron Aberdare, and Margaret Bethune Black. From 1932 to 1938, he was a pupil at Winchester College, and then entered New College, Oxford, where he read philosophy, politics and economics. The outbreak of war interrupted Bruce's university studies and he enlisted in the Welsh Guards

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