Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author Born 27 June 1875 in Chester, son of John Anwyl, lay preacher, of the Anwyl family of Caerwys, Flintshire, and his wife Ellen (née Williams), whose family came from Llangwnnadl, Caernarfonshire. He entered the ministry and became minister of Elim (Congl.), Carmarthen in 1899. Owing to deafness he relinquished his church to take charge of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Pontypridd, 1904-19. In 1914
ANWYL, LEWIS (1705? - 1776), cleric and author April 1767; it is a translation of J. Hammond's Historical Narrative of the Whole Bible; and (g) a translation of John Mabletoft's preface to his book entitled The Principles and the Duties of the Christian Religion (1710). He died at Abergele and was buried in the parish church 27 February 1776.
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Libraries chaired by the College Principal, Dr. Thomas Parry. The Librarian's last words to the Governors in September 1967 were: 'Given propitious circumstances, including universal acceptance of the urgency of the case, it is hoped that the middle years of the quinquennium may yet see the foundation of a new library laid.' Arthur ap Gwynn lived to see the opening of the Hugh Owen Library 1 September
APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES (Nimrod; 1779 - 1843), writer on sport . Apperley's best-known books are The Chace, the Road, and the Turf (1837), Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton (1837), The Life of a Sportsman (1842), and Hunting Reminiscences (1843). While in France he became a member of the staff of the Sporting Review, and, at J. G. Lockhart's request, contributed to the Quarterly Review articles on ' Melton Mowbray,' ' The Road,' and ' The Turf.' In his autobiography he
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Protestant, and was made chief justice of Ireland in 1564. His career is covered in D.N.B. Supplement, 75. JOHN ARNOLD Sir Nicholas Arnold's second son (wrongly called Thomas in The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, 1942, 21), inherited Llanthony (the Gloucestershire estates passing to the children of a former marriage), but later leased it to the Hopton family (retaining the baronial
ARNOLD, JOHN (1634), Whig politician - see ARNOLD
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies He became in later ages the chief figure of the Arthurian cycle of tales. Nothing definite is known about him as a historical character, although his existence can no longer be denied, nor can he be explained, as he was by Sir John Rhys and others, as a purely legendary figure. He is not mentioned by Gildas, c. 540, in his reference to the victory of the Britons at ' Badon Hill ' ('Mons Badonicus
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian Born at Ty'nsarn, Llawr-y-glyn, Montgomeryshire, 4 September 1848, the son of Elizabeth Ashton. When he was about 9 years old he began to receive instruction from one John Jones who kept school for three months at a time in the local Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodist chapels. At the age of 12 Ashton went to work in the lead mines of Dylife, an occupation which he soon found uncongenial. Leaving
ASHTON, JOHN (1830 - 1896), musician
AUBREY, JOHN (1626 - 1697) - see AUBREY, WILLIAM
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer (Cranmer, 576) that he was deprived for 'incompliance' seems to be unfounded. Elizabeth allowed him (23 February 1559) to alienate the office to John Griffith, B.C.L. (Rymer, Foedera, xv, 565). Aubrey now devoted himself to his practice in the prerogative and ecclesiastical courts as Master in Chancery (c. 1555), Master of Requests (1590), advocate in the Court of Arches and Judge of Audience in the
AUGUSTUS, WILLIAM, a prescientific weather forecaster and translator He lived at Cil-y-cwm, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, at the close of the 18th century. The precise dates of his life are unknown, but he was living in 1794 when John Ross of Carmarthen printed The Husbandman's Perpetual Prognostication. This work is a curious collection of weather lore written partly in Welsh and partly in English. The source of the Welsh portion (which is largely a

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