Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Glanusk Park, succeeded by his son, JOSEPH HENRY RUSSELL BAILEY (1864 - 1928), 2nd baron Glanusk, 3rd baronet, a major in the Grenadier Guards, and afterwards Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers; like his father, he was lord-lieutenant of Brecknock.
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic learned Italian, and made the acquaintance of his fellow-countryman Dr. Griffith, confessor to a nunnery at Milan. Obtaining leave to visit his home in 1607, he made over his Herefordshire property (Pembridge) to his nephew Henry Prichard (6 September), and made several converts among his relatives and neighbours, including his sister, wife of William Parry of Llanover (himself a Catholic), who remained
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer Stanley Baker was born on 28 February 1928 at 32 Albany Street in Ferndale in the Rhondda Fach, Glamorganshire, the youngest of three children of John Henry Baker (1896-1950), a haulier and engineman, and his wife Elizabeth Louisa (née Locke, 1896-1974). He grew up a self-declared 'wild child' who ducked school as often as he could. When Baker's father lost his leg in a mining accident
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales Born at Pontnewynydd, Monmouth, 12 May 1860, the son of Henry Ballinger; died at Hawarden, Flintshire, 8 January 1933. He was educated at a school in Canton, Cardiff, and became at 15 an assistant in the Cardiff Public Library, remaining there five years until he became librarian of Doncaster; he returned in 1884 to become chief librarian of Cardiff and to succeed in making it one of the best
BANKES, Sir JOHN ELDON (1854 - 1946), judge Born at Northop, Flint, 17 April 1854, son of John Scott Bankes of Soughton Hall, a great-grandson of John Scott (Lord Chancellor Eldon); he was also a lineal descendant of John Wynne, bishop of St. Asaph, whose daughter Margaret married Henry Bankes, and whose Soughton estate thus became the seat of the Bankes family. J. E. Bankes went to Eton and Christ Church (he rowed for Oxford), was called
BARHAM family Trecŵn, On 1 July 1754 at Cheltenham, Dorothea, fourth daughter of John Vaughan of Trecŵn and Joan Corbet his wife, married JOSEPH FOSTER -BARHAM, son of Colonel John Foster (1681 - 1731), of Egham House, Surrey, and Jamaica. He was born 16 December 1729 in Jamaica, where the family had large estates which he inherited. He assumed the surname of his step-father, Dr. Henry Barham, in 1750, and died in
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist
BARSTOW, Sir GEORGE LEWIS (1874 - 1966), civil servant, president of University College Swansea Born 20 May 1874 in India, the son of Henry Clements Barstow, a civil servant, and Cecilia Clementina Baillie. The Barstows were long-established and prominent merchants in York. Following his marriage to the only daughter of Sir Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin, George Barstow established a home near Builth and a connection with Wales. Barstow graduated from Emmanuel College
BAYLY, HENRY (1744 - 1812) - see PAGET
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer , as specified in the apologia to king Charles I subscribed 7 April 1630, and as exemplified in his order, 1625, to put an end to the violent quarrels over pew-seats that had disgraced church life at Llanfairfechan. He died 26 October 1631. His second wife was Ann, daughter of Sir Henry Bagenal of Castle Newry in Ireland and Plas Newydd in Anglesey; his grandson EDWARD BAYLY succeeded to the Plas
BERNARD (d. 1148), bishop of S. Davids A Norman cleric of unknown origin, who began life as a chaplain of queen Matilda and later became her chancellor. On the death of bishop Wilfre or Wilfrid in 1115, Henry I determined to end the succession of Welsh bishops in this diocese and to complete his subjugation of South Wales by the appointment of an outsider. Representatives of the ' clas ' of S. Davids were summoned to London and there
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors a new Salvation Army Citadel in Merthyr was laid in memory of him in 1936 and he is also commemorated by the J.M. Berry Technical College which was built by his eldest son. HENRY SEYMOUR BERRY, 1st Baron BUCKLAND (1877 - 1928) industrialist Business and Industry; their eldest son, born 17 September 1877 in Gwaelod-y-garth, Merthyr Tydfil. In 1892 he was a monitor at Abermorlais Boys' School and

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