Dictionary of Welsh Biography

AP THOMAS, DAFYDD RHYS (1912 - 2011), Old Testament scholar Dafydd ap Thomas was born 2 May 1912, in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest of the five sons of Reverend W. Keinion Thomas and his wife Jeanette; Gwyn, Alon, Iwan and Jac were his brothers and they had a younger sister, Truda. He received his early education at home and his secondary education at Beaumaris Grammar School before proceeding to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where
AP VYCHAN - see THOMAS, ROBERT
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, The founder of the fortunes of this old Monmouthshire family, descended from Gwilym ap Meurig but adopting the surname Arnold at an early stage, was Sir NICHOLAS ARNOLD (1507? - 1580), a gentleman pensioner of Henry VIII who, in consequence of his work for Thomas Cromwell at the Dissolution (18 June 1546) acquired Llanthony abbey (living, however, on his Gloucestershire estates), became a rabid
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian on 'Y Beirdd Cymreig o William Llŷn hyd at Gwilym Hiraethog'; Caernarvon (1894), Gwaith Iolo Goch (published by the National Eisteddfod Association, 1896). Ashton also published Traethawd or Ffeiriau Cymru (Llanelli, 1881), Bywyd ac Amserau'r Esgob Morgan (Treherbert, 1891), A Guide to Dinas Mawddwy (Aberystwyth, 1893), and a Welsh translation, entitled Y Ddirprwyaeth Dirol Gymreig. Crynhodeb o
ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales was to criticise the Labour Party (a political party he had joined when he was 16) and the churches in Wales for being so ineffective. The leaders within the Synod were disturbed with him and arranged for him to be moved to Cornwall. Atkin refused to accept their verdict. The Reverend Edward Morgan, a Congregationalist minister in Cardiff, heard of Atkin's refusal, and suggested to a number of
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic staunch when her husband wavered under persecution, and eventually his father, who was reconciled by Morgan Clynnog, nephew of Morys Clynnog. Next year he was instrumental in bringing about the reconstitution of the English congregation of Benedictines. Dom Sigebert Buckley, last survivor of the pre-Reformation English Benedictines (who has been claimed as a native of Beaumaris), had got into touch with
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer be out of step with the radicalism of his sons and the determination of his wife, Beth, played by Sian Phillips, Baker sparkled. His version of Gwilym Morgan has never been bettered. How Green Was My Valley was broadcast on BBC Two between 29 December 1975 and 2 February 1976, concluding a few weeks before Baker's forty eighth birthday and eleven days before he was diagnosed with lung cancer. His
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician from the earliest period till the sixteenth century. One of them, Hil a hwyl y castell (1946) was a course of lessons delivered on the radio in 1936. The other five form a sequence, though the dates of publication do not follow in chronological order. The first was Ein hen hen hanes (1932), the story of Wales from the earliest times till the fall of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd told in simple language for
BEDO AEDDREN (fl. c. 1500), bard He lived at Aeddren, a farm near Llangwm Dinmael, Denbighshire. Llangwm and Dinmael are mentioned in his poems. The variant readings of the name of his home are numerous, e.g. Aerddrem, Aurdrem, Eurdrem, Oerddrym. He is said to have lived at or inherited the farm of Coed y Bedo, near Aeddren. It is likely that later in his life he resided near Bala. Like Bedo Brwynllys, he was one of Dafydd ap
BEDO BRWYNLLYS (c. 1460), a Brecknock poet Brwynllys or ' Bronllys ' is near Talgarth. His extant work comprises much love poetry of the type which is characteristic of the followers of Dafydd ap Gwilym, together with a smaller number of religious and eulogistic poems including an elegy upon Sir Richard Herbert of Coldbrook, 1469. There are also flyting poems between him and Ieuan Deulwyn and Hywel Dafi. He is said to have been buried at
BELI ap RHUN ap MAELGWN GWYNEDD - see RHUN ap MAELGWN GWYNEDD
BELL, ERNEST DAVID (1915 - 1959), artist and poet appointed Assistant Director (Art) under the Welsh Committee of the Arts Council, and in 1951 he became Curator of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. David Bell collaborated with his father on the translation of some of Dafydd ap Gwilym's poems which appeared in 1942 under the title Dafydd ap Gwilym: fifty poems as vol. 48 of Y Cymmrodor. He was the author of 24 translations. He provided the English

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