Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRAOSE family , (2) Agnes, daughter of Nicholas de Molis, (3) Mary de Rus, founding a vigorous stock, the several families retaining their identity and succeeding to the family claims on the maternal side. By his third wife, William had two sons, RICHARD (died 1292) and PETER (died 1312). Richard married Alice de Longespee, their numerous descendants holding the manors of Whittingham and Akenham, Suffolk; Stinton
BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer Born Cesail Graig, Pwll, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, 23 February 1875, son of John and Mary Brazell. He was reared in a musical family; his father (a collier) was fond of music, and two of his brothers, John and Thomas, were fairly well known musicians - John a tenor soloist, and Thomas a choir conductor and a precentor at the Independent chapel in Pwll. David and John went on a tour in the United
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
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, , Mary Wyke, after settling on her all his estates (6-7 April 1660) and binding himself to good behaviour in a famous written imprecation (printed in Pennant, Tours, 1883 ed., iii, 286-8), being thereupon admitted to the lucrative leasehold interest of the Wykes in the Gatehouse and its precincts. He lived on this property till he was killed at sea in the Dutch war (26 June 1665) and buried at
BROWN, MIA ARNESBY (1867 - 1931), artist Born in Cwmbran, Monmouth, daughter of Rev. Charles Smallwood Edwards and grand-daughter of Rev. Loderwick Edwards, vicar of Rhymney. She studied under Sir Hubert von Herkomer. She showed five pictures in the Royal Academy under her maiden name, Edwards. In 1913 in an exhibition of contemporary Welsh artists, two of her pictures drew attention - ' Mary reading ' and ' The Garden Boy ', the latter
BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society Born 17 June 1886 at Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, the youngest of the five sons and four daughters of John Brunt, a farm worker, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. Up to the age of ten David was a pupil at the village school, then in the charge of a single teacher who gave all his instruction in Welsh. In 1896 John Brunt moved his family to the south Wales coalfield where he subsequently worked as a
BULKELEY, WILLIAM (1691 - 1760), squire and diarist , when he met them at Quarter Sessions, all men who had dealt hard with William Prichard and who would have liked to see him forced to cross the Straits to his native Eifionydd. Again, the squire of Brynddu was in many ways a thoroughbred son of Anglesey, in love with nature and its manifold wonders, yet he had to see his daughter Mary married to a Saxon brewer of Liverpool. Fortunatus Wright by name
BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer his return by James I. For the rest of his long naval career he served as ' Admiral of the King's ships on the coast of Ireland.' Sir Thomas married Mary, daughter of Sir Walter Rice of Dynevor, Carmarthenshire, and they had seven children. He made his home at Cardiff. Miles, his eldest son, married Barbara, the daughter and heiress of Rhys Meurug (' Merrick ') of Cottrell, Glamorganshire, his
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat appears in the county muster for the Boulogne campaign in 1544, but he spent the entire period of the siege as resident ambassador in Brussels. He was in retirement under Edward VI, save for membership of the Council of Wales (c. 1551) and occasional consultation on diplomatic issues. Under Mary he served a second term as sheriff (1554), and as M.P. for Glamorgan (1554) he provided the first known
CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer and Son, Wrexham. He married Mildred Mary Jones, Minera, in 1905 and went to live in Coed-poeth where he followed his trade as a printer and as a music publisher. From his early childhood it was obvious that he had a special talent as a musician. At the age of nine he had been appointed organist at the Wesleyan Methodist church at Gwynfryn and he held that office for about fifteen years. He studied
CARTER family Kinmel, . 7). Pyrs was followed (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 259) by a son, David, a grandson, PYRS (sheriff of Denbighshire, 1578), and a great-grandson, DAVID, sheriff of Denbighshire, 1596, whose will was proved in 1616. This David left two infant co-heiresses, Mary and ELIZABETH (she is called by Pennant ' Catherine ', and in some books ' Dorothy ' - which was her mother's name). In 1641 Mary was married

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