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  • ADAM OF USK (Adam Usk; 1352? - 1430), lawyer conceal his hostility to Richard II and his supporters. When the tables were turned in 1399, he was on the winning side; he accompanied Henry IV and the archbishop from Bristol to Chester, and on the way made up a quarrel between Lancaster and his own friends in Usk. He was a member of the commission appointed to find legal grounds for the deposition of Richard, and saw and heard him during his
  • ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), diwinydd Ganwyd 28 Awst 1845 yn Nhalybont, Ceredigion, i John a Margaret Adams. Crydd oedd ei dad, yn wr blaenllaw mewn diwylliant gwledig, a phregethwr cynorthwyol. Anfonwyd David i ysgol ramadeg Llanfihangel, lle y dysgodd elfennau Lladin a Groeg. Pan gyfyngwyd yr ysgol i fynychwyr yr Eglwys gadawodd hi am y gwaith mwyn. Wedi tair blynedd dychwelodd i ysgol Talybont fel ' pupil teacher.' Yn 1863 aeth i
  • ADAMS, DAVID (1845 - 1922), Congregationalist divine Born 28 August 1845 at Tal-y-bont, Cardiganshire, the son of John and Margaret Adams. His father, who was a bootmaker by trade, was prominent in all the cultural activities of the countryside and was also a lay preacher. David went to the grammar school at Llanfihangel, where he learned the elements of Latin and Greek, but when attendance at the Church of England was made a condition of
  • ADAMS, ROGER (d. 1741), argraffydd yng Nghaer Courant. Efe, hefyd, a argraffodd John Reynolds, The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry, 1739. Wedi ei farw bu ei weddw, ELIZABETH ADAMS, yn dwyn y busnes ymlaen. Hyhi a argraffodd Cydymaith Diddan (Dafydd Jones o Drefriw), 1766; argraffodd hefyd, e.e. yn 1752 a 1753, lawer o faledi.
  • ADAMS, ROGER (d. 1741), bookseller and printer at Chester Although he may not have been a Welshman, Roger Adams, who was admitted a freeman of Chester on 20 February 1713/4, merits a note as he was one of the earliest printers of Welsh books and ballads at Chester : his first book was (probably) Ystyriaethau o Gyflwr Dyn, 1724. In 1730 he had started to print Adams's Chester Weekly Courant, and in 1739 he printed John Reynolds, The Scripture Genealogy
  • ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), arbenigwr mewn mwnau Ganwyd yn Penycae, Ebbw Vale, 10 Hydref 1813, mab John a Mary Adams. Glowr oedd ei dad ar y pryd ac yn hynod fedrus yn y gwaith hwnnw, a daeth yn gynrychiolydd mwnawl dros Charles Lloyd Harford & Co. Addysgwyd William yn Ysgol Ramadeg Pontfaen. Prentisiwyd ef yn 1828 gyda Charles Lloyd Harford, ac yng nghwrs amser daeth yn arbenigwr yn ei gangen ef ei hun o'r gwaith. Cyhoeddodd Science of Mining
  • ADAMS, WILLIAM (1813 - 1886), mining expert Born at Pen-y-cae, Ebbw Vale, 10 October 1813, son of John and Mary Adams. The father was a working collier at the time but a man of remarkable skill in that vocation; later he became mineral agent for Charles Lloyd Harford & Co. William was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School. In May 1828 he was apprenticed to Charles Lloyd Harford and in the course of time he became expert in his own branch
  • ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), bardd a brudiwr o fri Yn ôl Dr. John Davies a Thomas Stephens, blodeuai tua 1240. Cyfeirir ato yn Peniarth MS 94 (26), a Llanstephan MS. 119 (82) fel gwr yn byw tua 1038, ac yn cydoesi â Goronwy Ddu o Fôn. Ond yn G. P. Jones, Anglesey Court Rolls, 1346, tt. 37 a 39, ceir sôn am 'the son of Adda Fras', a 'the suit of Goronwy Ddu, attorney for the community of the Township of Porthgir.' Yn Dafydd ap Gwilym a'i gyfoeswyr
  • ADDA FRAS (1240? - 1320?), poet and writer of prophecies According to John Davies and Thomas Stephens, he flourished about 1240. He is referred to in Peniarth MS 94 (26) and Llanstephan MS. 119 (82), as living about 1038, and contemporary with Goronwy Ddu o Fôn. But in G. P. Jones, Anglesey Court Rolls, 1346, 37, 39, mention is made of 'the son of Adda Fras ' and 'the suit of Goronwy Ddu, attorney for the community of the township of Porthgir.' In
  • AL-HAKIMI, ABDULLAH ALI (c. 1900 - 1954), Muslim leader Said Ismail, who would go on to become the longest serving Imam in Britain prior to his death in 2011. Al-Hakimi was a pioneer and innovative Muslim leader, who was ahead of his time in terms of his vision for his own role as a Muslim leader in Britain. News reports shed light on his activities which range from attending civic functions, including the funeral for George VI in St John the Baptist City
  • ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), gŵr busnes a dyngarwr Americanaidd er mwyn astudio'u dulliau hwy o redeg busnes. Ymunodd â busnes y teulu yn 1925 ac ymhen amser daeth yn gadeirydd y cwmni, Llaethdai Hitchman, Cyf., a werthai 20,000 o alwyni o laeth y dydd a chyflogi dros 500 o ddynion pan werthwyd ef i gwmni cyfyngedig United Dairies yn 1946. Yr oedd hefyd yn dansgrifennwr cwmni yswiriant Lloyd. Ar 6 Rhagfyr 1939 priododd Margaret, merch John Davies, capten
  • ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN (1901 - 1968), business man and philanthropist American firms to study their business methods. He entered the family business in 1925 and in due course became chairman of Hitchman's Dairies, Ltd., which was selling 20,000 gallons of milk a day and employing over 500 men when it was sold to United Dairies, Ltd., in 1946. He was also a Lloyd's underwriter. On 6 December 1939 he married Margaret, daughter of John Davies, master mariner, Aberaeron and