Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BODWRDA family Bodwrda, the regicide trials, and was entrusted by Charles II with the dismantling of Caernarvon castle. During the Great Fire (1666) the king put him in charge of homeless refugees at Islington. He failed, though backed by secretary Arlington, to obtain a commissionership of Excise for London in 1668, but soon afterwards (c. 1672) he was given a post at the Treasury in Dublin, where he remained till his
BRAOSE family claimed full rights of alienation in their territories. Mowbray forcibly occupied Gower, but the lordship was seized by the king. This enabled Despenser to come to terms with William, whereby the latter retained a life interest in the lordship, Mowbray and Aline being induced to agree to the arrangement. William died c. May 1326, and in the same year the fate of the lordship was involved in the revolt
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer served his apprenticeship as a singer in eisteddfodau and with the encouragement of R.C. Jenkins he went to the Royal Academy of Music in London in May 1901 where he studied for five years with Frederic King (singing), Frederic Corder (harmony and counterpoint), and Edgardo Levi (opera). He had a brilliant career as a student; he won six of the academy's medals, and he took a prominent part in
BRIGSTOCKE, THOMAS (1809 - 1881), portrait painter Born 17 April 1809 at 61 King Street, Carmarthen, son of David and Mary Brigstocke. At 16 he entered Sass's drawing school at 6 Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury, and subsequently studied under H. P. Briggs and J. P. Knight before spending eight years studying and painting at Paris, Florence, Rome, and Naples. In 1847 he spent some months in Egypt where he painted portraits of Mehemet Ali and his
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician Eve. She was also a member of the Management Committee, King Edward's Hospital Fund for London 1961-71. For these and for her political services, Barbara Brooke was appointed DBE in 1960 and created, in Sir Alec Douglas-Home's dissolution honours list of December 1964, a life peer as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte, in the County of Breconshire. In the House of Lords, Barbara Brooke spoke on health
BRYANT, TOM (1882 - 1946), harpist Bryans's accompaniment on the harp, he travelled extensively in south Wales. He became an A.R.C.M. in 1906, and in the same year received King Edward VII's command to play the harp at the opening of a new dock in Cardiff. With the ' Golden Quartette ' he held concerts at the principal towns of Britain. He wrote music for the harp, and composed variations on the tunes ' Merch y Felin ' and ' Merch Megan
BRYCHAN (fl. mid 5th century), saint He was the son of Anlach, son of Coronac, an Irish prince, and Marchell, daughter of Tewdrig, king of Garthmadryn. At her father's bidding, Marchell had crossed to Ireland, where Anlach wedded her, and where too Brychan was born. Anlach then returned with his wife and son to Wales, and set up their home at Benni (probably the ancient ' Bannium ' near Brecon). The education of their son was
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor British films, and he had his first taste of acting on Broadway, but his career took off after he excelled in Shakespearean plays on the Stratford stage over the summer of 1951, in particular when he took the roles of Prince Hal and King Henry V (acting alongside Hugh Griffith). Richard accepted a contract with Twentieth Century Fox which allowed him enough freedom to pursue two parallel careers: one in
BWTTING, RHYS (fl. 15th century), harpist A native of Prestatyn, Flintshire. He was awarded the prize as the chief singer to the accompaniment of the harp in the eisteddfod held at Carmarthen in 1451 under the patronage of king Henry VI and under the authority of Gruffudd ap Nicolas.
CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales According to his 'Vita' (written in the 12th century), he was the son of Gwynllyw (prince of Glywysing, south-eastern Wales) and Gwladus, daughter of king Brychan of Brycheiniog. The 'Vita Cadoci,' written probably at Brecon priory by a Norman monk Lifris or Lifricus, is the longest and most important in the collection of Latin lives of Welsh saints known as B.M. Cotton MS. Vespasian A. xiv. The
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince in the sack of the town and the capture of king Stephen. But this was no blind adventure; it must be connected with Cadwaladr's marriage to Alice de Clare, daughter of Fitz Gilbert - an alliance clearly intended to strengthen his hold upon Ceredigion and one which made him earl Randolph's nephew. A serious crime in 1143 led to a rupture with his brother. He allowed his retinue treacherously to
CADWGAN (d. 1111), prince nephew, Madog ap Rhiryd; the king restored him to southern Powys. But in the same year he also fell a victim to the same unnatural assailant; while planning to build a castle at Trallwng Llywelyn (Welshpool) he was treacherously attacked and, with little resistance, slain. Cadwgan is described by the ' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ' in 1097 as the 'worthiest' of the Welsh leaders in that year, and his record

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