Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors Though the Dowlais Iron Co. had been formed in 1759 and John Guest of Broseley had been engaged as its manager early in 1760, it was ANTHONY BACON (1717 - 1786) who was the real originator of the pre-eminence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Great Britain, and who converted it from a hamlet into a flourishing manufacturing town. He was baptized on 24 January 1717 at St Bees
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author (according to John Evans's statistics of 1715) composed of people in very good circumstances; and tradition describes Baddy himself as being fashionably dressed and well mounted. He was a diligent translator of theological works (list in Ashton, Hanes llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 O.C. hyd 1850, 167-77, and Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, part 3). His original compositions, a metrical version of the
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, CRAWSHAY BAILEY (1789 - 1872), iron-master and M.P. Business and Industry Politics, Government and Political Movements Crawshay Bailey was born in 1789 at Great Wenham, Suffolk, the younger son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay, iron-master, Cyfarthfa. When only about 12 years of age he joined his older brother, Joseph, at Cyfarthfa and to assist at
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, Sir JOSEPH BAILEY, (1783 - 1858), baronet, iron-master, landowner, and M.P., was the elder son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay (1739 - 1810), the famous iron-master of Cyfarthfa. When quite a young lad, he tramped the whole way from Yorkshire to seek his rich uncle at Merthyr. By hard work and perseverance he soon obtained a good grasp of the iron
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 Sir John Wynne's The history of the Gwydir family; he published Gleanings from a Printer's File in 1928, and ' Katheryn of Berain ' in Cymm., xl. He served as editor of the Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society for some years. He was awarded the honorary degree of M.A. by the University of Wales, in 1909, became a C.B.E. in 1920, and was made a knight bachelor in 1930, in which year he
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer
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
BARKER family, artists Benjamin Barker II, distinguished themselves as landscape and subject painters, whilst the sons of his son Thomas, viz. Thomas Jones Barker and JOHN JONES BARKER were also artists. THOMAS BARKER (1769 - 1847), landscape and subject painter Art and Architecture Son of Benjamin Barker of Pontypool, was born at Trosnant, Pontypool, 1769, and displayed a talent for drawing when very young. He settled at Sion
BARLOW, JOHN, dean of Worcester - see BARLOW, WILLIAM

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