Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge to obtain briefs connected with the broking firms and Stock Exchange. The success of his commercial law practice reflects the influence during his pupillage of his master Thomas Edward Scrutton; eventually both men were sat together in the Court of Appeal. After more than twenty years practice as a barrister, Atkin became a judge of the King's Bench division of the High Court in 1913 and was
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales , David Llewelyn Mort. He did well, coming third out of six, saving his deposit, and receiving 8% of the vote, more than the Communist and Plaid Cymru candidates together. The result was as follows: Neil McBride (Labour), 18,909; R. Owens (Liberal) 4,895; Reverend Leon Atkin (People's Party), 2,464: Miss A. P. Thomas (Conservative), 2,272; E. Chris Rees (Plaid Cymru), 1,620; Bert Pearce (Communist Party
AUBREY, JOHN (1626 - 1697) - see AUBREY, WILLIAM
AUBREY, THOMAS (1808 - 1867), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 13 May 1808 at Cefncoedcymer, the eldest child of Thomas and Anne Aubrey. He began to preach before attaining the age of 15, and in 1826 was accepted into the Wesleyan Methodist ministry. He 'travelled' extensively on North Wales circuits, in London, Liverpool, and Merthyr Tydfil between 1826 and 1865, when he became a supernumerary. From 1854 to 1865 he was chairman of the North Wales
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Son of Thomas Aubrey and scion of an old Brecknock family, was born at Cantref, Brecknock. He is said to have been educated at Christ College, Brecon, whence he proceeded to read law at Oxford, taking his B.C.L. in 1549, his doctorate in 1554, becoming Fellow of All Souls and Jesus and principal of New Inn Hall. He was appointed by queen Mary to a readership in Civil Law, but Strype's conjecture
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
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 asking for English books for his community); and in the course of his researches he made the acquaintance of Selden, who became a 'speciall friend,' Camden, Spelman, and archbishop Ussher. The material he collected, put in order by his friend Fr. John (Leander) Jones and edited by their pupil Clement Rayner, forms an essential source for the history of the English Benedictines. He also left unfinished
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist from the diary, together with details of her struggle on her own behalf and on behalf of the Hengwrt house and estate, were printed (ed. B. B. Thomas) in N.L.W. Jnl., iii, 81-101; they throw much interesting light on local history and persons both in the Dolgelley district and elsewhere. She was buried in Dolgelley churchyard on 26 November 1789, probably in a pauper's grave.

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