Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
BOWEN, EVAN RODERIC (1913 - 2001), Liberal politician and lawyer attained the rank of captain. He served as an officer on the staff of the Judge Advocate-General. He was elected the Liberal MP for Cardiganshire in the general election of July 1945 as the successor to the recently deceased Sir David Owen Evans, and was re-elected there in five successive general elections, but was defeated by D. Elystan Morgan (Labour) in the general election of 1966. Bowen - 'the
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician candidate selection between Beata Brookes, Geraint Morgan, sitting MP for Denbigh, and Sir Anthony Meyer, sitting MP for West Flint. Brookes was a popular candidate with the support of local Conservative activists, and she won the selection vote in March 1983. However, Meyer eventually won this contest in May after the previous decision was reversed in the courts. Brookes held the North Wales seat in the
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, The Broughton family probably originated in and took their name from the township of that name in Cheshire; they first appear on the western side of the Dee in the 16th century, when RALPH BROUGHTON was in possession of Plas Isa, Is-y-coed, Denbighshire. His third son VALENTINE BROUGHTON (died 1603), alderman of Chester, was an early benefactor if not founder of Wrexham grammar school. MORGAN
CADWGAN (d. 1111), prince as a ruler is not discreditable. Besides the two sons, Henry and Gruffydd, born to his Norman wife, he left Owain (died 1116), Madog, Einion (died 1123), Morgan (died 1128), and Maredudd (died 1124).
CARADOG ap GRUFFYDD ap RHYDDERCH (d. 1081) the article Morgan ap Hywel, who in course of time established himself in Gwynllwg and became the ancestor of the later Welsh lords of Caerleon.
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan four sons, Morgan, Maredudd, Owain, and Cadwallon; the first of these succeeded him in the lordship of Afan.
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Erwood and later in the neighbourhood of Cathedin. He was baptised 17 April 1887 in Hephzibah church, Erwood, and at the urging of his pastor, John Morgan, he began to preach. He resumed his education, spending 2 years at a grammar school held by Daniel Christmas Lloyd (Congl. minister), in his home, Hampton House, Glasbury, and then at the Baptist College and University College, Cardiff, where he
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer attacked it (though without specifically naming it) in the Cylchgrawn edited by Morgan John Rhys, and in 1797 he published a pamphlet, Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry, against it. Several of his friends, in London and in Wales, disapproved of this work, and in 1806 there appeared Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid, by Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol, under the pseudonym Arvonius. Charles was a lively and bitter
CLARE family Morgan Gam; he died 25 October 1230. His heir was RICHARD III (1222 - 1262), born 4 August 1222. His wide lands in England and Ireland (here, his mother had possessions), and his semi-independence as a great lord in the March, caused him to be spoken of as 'the foremost baron in England' at his coming-of-age in 1243. But he was prodigal and vacillating, veering alternately between the king and the
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary pertinent…) has been the foundation of all subsequent work on the history of the county, and was the foundation of his own Land of Morgan, 1883. The thick volume of Glamorgan pedigrees (Limbus Patrum Morganiae et Glamorganiae), 1886, is another monument of painstaking research. In short, there can have been few migrants who identified themselves so completely with the land of their adoption. Clark married

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