Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BLETHIN, WILLIAM (fl. 1575 to 1590), bishop of Llandaff A Welsh -speaking Welshman, born at Shirenewton Court, Monmouth, of the lineage of Hywel Dda; his kinsman Morgan Blethin was abbot of Llantarnam in 1532. He married Anne Young of Pembroke, niece of Thomas Young, principal of Broadgates Hall, Oxford, later to become bishop of S. Davids and archbishop of York; she died in 1589, and Blethin married another Anne the same year. He was educated at New
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
BLOOM, MILBOURN (d. 1766), Independent minister , 1923) he was ordained to assist Samuel. He was pastor of Pen-y-graig from 1748 to 1757; but in 1757 a grant from the Presbyterian Fund shows him to have been at Gwernogle, whence, in the same year, he removed to Pentre-ty-gwyn. He died, according to his friend Thomas Morgan, in 1766.
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
BODWRDA family Bodwrda, outbreak of civil war; three went to S. John's College, Cambridge, where Hugh's wife's brother, Owen Gwyn (or Gwynne), was elected master in 1612. WILLIAM BODWRDA (1593 - 1660), second son, went there in 1612 after graduating at Oxford, becoming M.A. 1615, B.D. 1623, and a Fellow of the college till his ejection for refusing the Solemn League and Covenant in 1644. After holding several college livings in
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
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
BRERETON, OWEN SALUSBURY (1715 - 1798), antiquary
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
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

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