Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist John Barrett was born in King's Lynn on 21 July 1913, the eldest of four children of John Ambrose Barrett, a chemist at a brewery, and his wife Evelyn Marion. His father was killed on 31 July 1917 while serving as a signals officer with the Rifle Brigade on the Western Front; he was amongst the first to be buried in the New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Barrett attended schools in Norwich and
BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Born in London, the son of Thomas Barrett and a Welsh mother (Mary Lewis) from Dinas Mawddwy, at which place the family was brought up. The father was a skilled violin player. William Barrett was given violin lessons when he was quite young; he also learned to play the flute. He was apprenticed to a merchant in Old Change, S. Paul's, London. He received further instruction on the flute from
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist The life of the Hon. Daines Barrington (he was the son of John Shute, 1st viscount Barrington) is described fairly fully in the D.N.B. Although not a Welshman, he influenced, in various ways, certain aspects of the life of Wales, came to acquire a considerable knowledge of the history and antiquities of North Wales and numbered some prominent North Wales antiquaries among his acquaintances or
BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753 - 1784), Methodist cleric February 1784, and his body was brought to S. Athan for burial. Elegies to his memory were written by John Williams, S. Athan, 1728 - 1806, and William Williams, Pantycelyn. At the same time David Jones, Llan-gan, published a booklet giving an account of his life: Llythyr oddiwrth Dafydd ab Ioan y Pererin at Ioan ab Gwilim y Prydydd … (Trevecka, 1784).
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster , where she collaborated with her colleague Rhyda A. Jones, who taught music: their carol, 'Ymdaenai cyfrin lenni'r nos' was published by Oxford University Press and the National Council of Music in 1932 and again in Carolau Hen a Newydd in 1954. It was in Barry also that she completed her research on the life and work of the poet 'Golyddan' (John Robert Pryse, 1840-1862), and was awarded a University
BATCHELOR, JOHN (1820 - 1883), businessman and politician John Batchelor was born on 10 April 1820 in Newport, the second son of the 12 children of Benjamin Batchelor (d. 1836), a timber merchant and shipbuilder, and his wife Anne. The family were devout Congregationalists. For John Batchelor, the combined influences of religion and progressive politics came early. The Batchelor family were friends with the Chartist leader John Frost, both families
BATTRICK, GERALD (1947 - 1998), tennis player Gerald Battrick was born at Bridgend on 27 May 1947, the son of Denzil John Battrick (1924-2016), a local government Senior Public Health Inspector, and his wife Pearl Madeleine, née Egan (1925-2011). Pearl Battrick was an influential figure who served as a committee member of the Welsh Lawn Tennis Association. The family lived at Cornerways, Island Farm Road, Bridgend. Educated at Bridgend
BAUGH, ROBERT (1748? - 1832), engraver, map-maker, and musician Described as 'of Llandysilio,' he was for many years parish clerk of Llanymynech. His name is associated with the well-known map of North Wales, 1795, the work of John Evans, Llwyn-y-groes, Llanymynech, but engraved by Baugh. Baugh made a map of Shropshire for which he was awarded, in 1809, a silver medal and fifteen guineas by the Royal Society of Arts, London. He died 27 December 1832, aged 84.
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Golden Apophthegms of 1660 (sayings of king Charles I and the marquis), and whether Thomas Bayly was the real author of the Life and Death…of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. Anthony Wood has succeeded only too well in casting doubts on the authorship of this Life of 1655, and on the exact year of Bayly's death - for the moment it stands at 1657.
BAYLY, THOMAS (1608 - 1657) - see BAYLY, LEWIS
BEADLES, ELISHA (1670 - 1734), Quaker and writer Son of John Beadles of Kempston, Beds., and Elizabeth, heiress of Walter Jenkins of Pant, a Quaker. He married Anne Handley in 1699. He translated into Welsh the treatise by his grandfather, Walter Jenkins, entitled, ' The law given forth out of Zion, etc. ', the translation being printed at Shrewsbury c. 1715, under the title Y gyfraith a roddwyd allan o Sion wedi ei gyfieithu i'r Gymraeg er
BEAUMONT, JAMES (d. 1750), early C.M. exhorter official inventory) reveals theological differences between them; and by December 1748 (Trevecka letter 1836) it would seem that Beaumont had not only veered into Antinomianism but was preaching other heterodox doctrines, in association with his disciple Thomas Sheen - these fluctuations of opinion were characteristic of the confusion which led to the Methodist cleavage of 1750-62. But Beaumont, like his

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