Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Mostyn, and published in Chester in 1765. NLW MS 843B, which was copied c. 1761, contains his sequence of englynion to the Deity. In 1784 appeared his translation of de Courcy's Letter of Advice …, in 1785 his translation of James Hervey's Meditations, and in 1792 of Theophilus Priestley's sermon on the death of Selina, countess of Huntingdon. In 1795 (?), at Chester, was printed A specimen of select
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist landed safely by parachute in Schleswig Holstein, and spent the next years in a succession of prisoner of war camps across Germany and Poland. Among those he met was John Buxton captured in Norway who knew Skokholm well having married Marjorie, one of Ronald Lockley's sisters, George Waterston badly injured in Crete and who later was to restore livelihood to Fair Isle, and Peter Conder captured with
BARTRUM, PETER CLEMENT (1907 - 2008), scholar of Welsh genealogy Peter Bartrum was born in Hampstead, north London, on 4 December 1907, the son of Clement Osborn Bartrum and his wife Kate. His father invented the Bartrum clock, now in the Science Museum in London, while his great-uncle was headmaster of Berkhamsted School. He was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and won a maths scholarship to Queen's College, Oxford in 1926. He joined the colonial service
BAXTER, WILLIAM (1650 - 1723), antiquary later became master of the Mercers' School. In 1679 he published an elementary Latin grammar, De Analogia sive arte Linguae Latinae Commentariolus … in usum provectioris adolescentiae. His Anacreon appeared in 1695 (2nd ed. 1710), and this made his name known in England and on the Continent. He edited the works of Horace in 1701 (other ed., 1725, 1798), and his text formed the basis of J. M. Gesner's
BEBB, WILLIAM AMBROSE (1894 - 1955), historian, prose writer and politician weeks for Paris, where he attended the lectures of Prof. Joseph Loth at the Collège de France and acted as Assistant in Welsh to Joseph Vendryes. He worked in Paris until 1925, when he was appointed tutor at the Normal College, Bangor, where he remained for the rest of his life, teaching Welsh, History and Scripture Knowledge at various times. Ambrose Bebb published six books on the history of Wales
BELL, RONALD MCMILLAN (1914 - 1982), Conservative politician , and served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during World War II where he became Lieutenant-Commander. He stood as the Conservative candidate for Caerphilly in the July 1939 by-election, when he was defeated by Ness Edwards (Labour), he captured Newport in a further by-election in May 1945, but lost the seat to Peter Freeman (Labour) in the general election two months later. During these months
BELLEROCHE, ALBERT de (1864 - 1944), painter and lithographer
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician councillor. In 1958 he resigned, together with Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Enoch Powell, a fellow minister at the Treasury, following a dispute over policy. He never held ministerial office again, partly due to the personal animosity between him and Harold Macmillan (whom he had notably attacked in the infamous Profumo debate), and to his failing eyesight. He was on all sides
BLACKWELL, JOHN (Alun; 1797 - 1840), cleric and poet Son of Peter and Mary Blackwell, Ponterwyl, Mold. He received no formal education, and at the age of 11 he was apprenticed shoemaker with William Kirkham, who was interested in Welsh poetry. Having read extensively in Welsh and English, he soon began to attend meetings of Cymreigyddion societies and to compete at eisteddfodau, winning a prize at an eisteddfod at Mold in 1823 for an awdl on 'Maes
BOOTS, JOHN GEORGE (1874 - 1928), Wales and Newport Rugby forward Born 2 July 1874 at Aberbeeg, Monmouth. He first played Rugby for Aberbeeg in 1890 and in 1895 made his first appearance for the Newport XV. He became an outstanding player and was known as the ' Peter Pan of Rugby Football,' having played in first class football for thirty seasons, twenty-seven of which were spent with the Newport team. Between 1898 and 1904, he was ' capped ' sixteen times for
BOWEN, EMRYS GEORGE (1900 - 1983), geographer did, nevertheless, continue to supervise research in the field. The second strand in his work was the significance of cultural inheritance in geography where he was much influenced by the work of French geographers with their emphasis on 'genre de vie', or way of life. He was foremost amongst British geographers in stressing the significance of culture in the shaping of landscape. The third strand
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

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