Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BLIGH, STANLEY PRICE MORGAN (1870 - 1949), landowner and author Born 15 February 1870 in Brecon, only son of Oliver Morgan Bligh and his wife Ellen (née Edwards) of Clifton. The first Bligh to inherit the estate of the Price family of Cilmeri near Builth was Thomas Price Bligh : he was succeeded by his brother, Oliver Morgan Bligh, who previously kept a draper's shop in Clifton. They were a branch of the Blighs of Cornwall whose most distinguished member was
BONARJEE, DOROTHY NOEL (1894 - 1983), poet and lawyer Dorothy Bonarjee was born in Bareilly, India, in 1894, the middle child of Debendranath Bonarjee, journalist and lawyer, and Janet Bonarjee (née Sirkar). The family moved to Dulwich, south London, in 1904 when her father entered Lincoln's Inn. Bonarjee came from a Bengali Brahmin family, who boasted a long-tradition of lawyers. Her mother was the honorary secretary of the Indian Women's Education
BOOTH, FLORENCE ELEANOR (1861 - 1957), Salvationist and social reformer Florence Booth was born on 12 September 1861 in Blaina, Monmouthshire, the eldest of the four children of Dr Isabell Hawker Soper (1833-1907) and his wife Jane Eleanor (née Levick, 1831-1870). Dr Soper, who was a native of Plymouth, was employed by the local iron works and collieries as a physician and surgeon, and his wife was the daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. Florence was a gifted musician
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author Kate Bosse-Griffiths was born in Wittenberg, Germany, on 16 July 1910, the second of four children of Paul Bosse (1881-1947), a doctor and head of Wittenberg town hospital, and his wife Käthe Bosse (née Levin, 1886-1944). Käthe Julia Gertrud Bosse was of Jewish descent through her mother, but was brought up a Lutheran. As Kate Bosse-Griffiths she made a unique contribution to twentieth-century
BOWEN, DAVID GLYN (1933 - 2000), minister and multifaith theologian David Bowen was born in Swansea 29 November 1933 where his parents, Henry and Violet (née Beynon) Bowen kept a grocer's shop. He received his early education at Swansea Grammar School (1945-1952) before proceeding to University College, Cardiff, in 1952, where he graduated in 1955 with an honours degree in Hebrew. For the next three years he studied at the Memorial College, Brecon. In Brecon he
BOWEN, EDWARD GEORGE (1911 - 1991), developer of radar and an early radio astronomer Edward (Eddie) Bowen was born 14 January 1911, the youngest of four children of George Bowen (steelworker in tinplate works) and Ellen Ann (née Owen) of Cockett, Swansea, Glamorganshire. He attended Sketty Primary School and gained scholarships to the Municipal Secondary School, Swansea and to the University College of Swansea, graduating BSc (Physics, 1st class honours, 1930) with MSc degree in
BRANGWYN, Sir FRANK FRANCOIS GUILLAUME (1867 - 1956), painter Born in Bruges, Belgium, 12 May 1867, the third son of William Curtis Brangwyn (died 1907 in Cardiff) and Eleanor (née Griffiths) his wife who hailed from Brecon. His father was a church architect and manufactured church furniture in Bruges but the family returned to London in 1875. Frank Brangwyn, who had very little formal education, learnt drawing in South Kensington Museum and entered the
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar once held the chair in Queen's College, Galway. John Bromwich's chief academic interest was the history of the English Language. He enlisted in the army and was posted to Belfast where their son, given the Irish name Brian, was born. Brian became an engineer and spent much of his life working abroad in developing countries. In the course of time Brian and his wife Christine (née Shire) provided
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
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer He was born in Station Road, Brynaman, on 29 March 1934, the son of John Jones, a cobbler, and his wife Elizabeth (née Austin). His registered name was Delme Jones; the hyphenated 'Bryn' (derived from the opening syllable of his birthplace) was prefixed to his surname in later life. He was educated at Brynaman Primary School and at Ammanford Technical College. On leaving the College he worked as
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director P. H. Burton was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 30 November 1904. His parents were Emma Matilda Burton (née Mears, died 1934) and her second husband, Henry Burton (died 1919), a collier, originally from a middle class Staffordshire family. His mother, a nurse, had moved from Somerset to Mountain Ash as a child. Her son William Wilson (from her first marriage to a Scots collier working in
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor Richard Walter Jenkins was born in Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, on 10 November 1925, the twelfth child of Richard Walter Jenkins (a miner who was fond of his pint) and his wife Edith (née Thomas). Following his mother's death barely two years later, Richard went to live with his eldest sister, Cecilia, in the neighboring village of Taibach. The family was Welsh-speaking and Richard retained

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