Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician - 1963) and Saunders Lewis met at Penarth, and decided to start a Welsh political movement. In August 1925 a small group of ardent Welshmen met at Pwllheli, and established the Welsh Nationalist Party. The two movements were fused, and in June 1926 Y Ddraig Goch (the Party's monthly newspaper) was launched, the first page of the first number carrying an article by Bebb. He was the editor of the first
BEUNO (d. 642?), patron saint commemoration, history has little to tell of the saint. The only extant life is a brief Welsh summary of about 1350 contained in the Book of the Anchorite of Llanddewi Brefi (ed. J. Morris-Jones and J. Rhys, Oxford, 1894). This makes him a scion of the royal stock of Morgannwg, born on the banks of the Severn in Powys, educated at Caerwent, settled at Berriw (until driven away by the approach of the English
BEVAN, LLEWELYN DAVID (1842 - 1918), Independent minister Born at Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, 11 September 1842, son of Hopkin Bevan and Eliza (Davies) - the father was a Bevan of Llangyfelach, related to Hopkin Bevan, the mother a descendant of Lewis Rees. He was educated at University College School and New College, London (B.A., LL.B.). From 1865 to 1869 he was assistant to Dr. Thomas Binney at the King's Weigh-house, and from 1869 to 1876 pastor of
BEVAN, LLYWELYN (1661 - 1723), Independent minister Born at Cwmllynfell, 1661. For several years he was Lewis Davies's right-hand man there. On 28 September 1697 he was elected a teaching elder, and on 17 November was ordained minister of Cwmllynfell and Gellionnen, and on 14 January 1701 was released from Tirdwncyn to take charge of the two churches. He built up a strong Independent church in Cwmllynfell and ministered to a large area. His
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician He was a member of a Swansea family, and (according to Morris Letters, ii, 336) was related to Arthur Bevan. A William Bevan, a Quaker of Swansea, was imprisoned in 1658, and died in 1701, aged 74. His son, Silvanus Bevan (1661 - 1725), married Jane Phillips of Swansea in 1685, and had several sons, two of whom moved to London. The elder, SILVANUS BEVAN, is the subject of this notice. He set up a
BEVAN, THOMAS (Caradawc, Caradawc y Fenni; 1802 - 1882), antiquary Born 13 September 1802 at Maesmawr mill, near Tal-y-bont, Brecknock, son of Lewis Bevan. He was educated at a small school held in the Baptist chapel, Llangynidr, and later at a private school at Abergavenny. On completing his apprenticeship at a grocer's shop at Abergavenny, he went to London, where he spent two years at his uncle's shop near Tower Hill and afterwards was engaged for seven years
BEYNON, THOMAS (d. 1729), minister fullest account of him is in D. M. Lewis, Cofiant Evan Lewis, Brynberian (Aberystwyth, 1903). In Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry, under 1719 (1), we find him mentioned among the sponsors of a book published by Isaac Carter at Atpar; see also ibid., 1717 (5).
BIDWELL, MORRIS, Puritan preacher, under the Commonwealth
BIRCHINSHAW, WILLIAM (fl. 1584-1617), poet 1605-66 (4) appears a reference to rents paid for land held by four men, of whom one, named Burchinshawe, may be the poet. Sometimes called 'Sir' W. Birchinshaw, he was, perhaps, trained for the priesthood. He was a contemporary of Morris Kyffin. Most of his poems have been preserved in NLW MS 567B, NLW MS 1553A, and NLW MS 5272C.
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, The family claimed descent from Brochwel Ysgythrog. The first member of the family about whom there is definite information is EVAN BLAYNEY, whose name appears eighteenth in the roll of burgesses found in the charter of Welshpool, 7 June, 7 Henry IV (1406), where he is described as 'of Tregynon.' His son, GRIFFITH AP EVAN BLAYNEY, is mentioned by the poet Lewis Glyn Cothi. The Gregynog line of
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, . John Salusbury in 1622, and was called the college of St. Xaverius. Fr. John Salusbury, died in 1625 and Bodvel succeeded him as rector. He procured from his uncle ' Hugh Morgan of Hilton ' - whom Mr. J. M. Cleary plausibly identifies with Hugh Owen - funds for maintaining a Welsh scholar at Rome, by means of which David Lewis (died 1679), nephew of Fr. Augustine Baker (1575 - 1641), was enabled to

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