Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEVAN, JOSEPH GURNEY (1753 - 1814), chemist - see BEVAN, SILVANUS
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician BEVAN 1704 - 1786, his brother, succeeded him in the Plough Court business - which was the lineal ancestor of the firm of Allen and Hanbury. He married as his second wife Hannah, daughter of John Gurney, and was the father of JOSEPH GURNEY BEVAN (1753 - 1814), who carried on the business but is better known as a writer on Quakerism and is commemorated in D.N.B.
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author his Connexion from 1926 till his death, and was both secretary of the committee for a long period (1930-60), and keeper of the Calvinistic Methodist Archives in the N.L.W. He was also a member of the court of the National Library for many years. He took a great interest in the Methodist 'fathers', particularly Howel Harris. He researched assiduously in Harris ' diaries, publishing extensive excerpts
BLOOM, MILBOURN (d. 1766), Independent minister year he parted with Methodism (Trevecka letter 973, and another letter printed in H. J. Hughes, Life of Howell Harris, 270), and decided to enter the Independent ministry, being admitted c. 13 September member of Pant Teg church, then under Christmas Samuel. There are references to him, throughout 1744, in Thomas Morgan's diary (NLW MS 5456A). On 26 September 1745 (Cilgwyn church book, in Cofiadur
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician was cited as a co-respondent when Joseph Clayton, his next-door neighbour, divorced his wife, Vera Clayton. Neither Lord Aylestone nor Mrs Clayton defended this petition and Lord Aylestone was ordered to pay costs. The case achieved wide publicity and Lord Aylestone retired from public life for a time. He caused some surprise when he joined the Social Democrat Party in 1981 and held the post of
BOYDELL, JOSIAH (1752 - 1817), painter and illustrator Born at the Manor House, Hawarden, Flintshire, 18 January 1752, nephew of John Boydell, engraver and printseller, London. Josiah was taken to London by his uncle and received training from him and Richard Earlom; afterwards young Boydell and Joseph Farrington were engaged by the uncle to make drawings for the engravers from pictures in the Houghton Collection before they were removed to the
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian Born 11 January 1859, only son of Joseph C. Bradney, rector of Greete, Salop; educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1881. He was connected with the militia and with the army from 1882 - when he was a captain in the Monmouthshire Militia - until after the war of 1914-18. Bradney served his country and his county in many capacities: on the county council, as a
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer States for seven months with the Llanelli choir in 1909-10; John died on the ship Mauretania whilst returning to Britain from New York. After leaving the elementary school at Pwll, he worked in the tinplate industry and studied music in Llanelli in his spare time, firstly with Maggie Aubrey and later with R.C. Jenkins, conductor of the Llanelli Choral Society who had been taught by Joseph Parry. He
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer the B.A. and Mus. Bac. degrees, but a severe breakdown in health in 1893 compelled him to leave Oxford and to give up all work for a long period. Until 1903 he lived mainly at Wrexham and Marchwiel; in that year he moved to Caernarvon, where his brothers, Edward and Joseph Davies Bryan (infra), who were in business in Egypt, had a house. From that date Robert Bryan spent most of his winters in Egypt
BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister religious matter. Among them may be noted The Vicar of Llandovery, 1821, 1830, an English version of the works of Rhys Prichard; Memoirs of the Life of Howell Harris, 1824; and Memoirs of Benjamin Evans (one of his predecessors at Albany), 1826.
COBB, JOSEPH RICHARD (1821 - 1897), antiquary
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer William Condry, or Bill as he was often known, was born in Birmingham on 1st March 1918 to Joseph Condry, a gem setter, and his wife Agnes, who were Clarionites, pacifists and active members of the Independent Labour Party. He had a brother, Dennis, and a sister Kathleen (who died at the age of 104). Condry studied at Birmingham University where he gained a BA in French, Latin and History in 1939

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