Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BRAZELL, DAVID (1875 - 1959), singer Cornish air, a song that became a great favourite of the singer Peter Dawson. He married in 1938 Catherine Hughes, headmistress of Coleshill school, Llanelli. He died in Bryntirion Hospital, Llanelli, 28 December 1959 and was cremated at Morriston.
BROMWICH, RACHEL SHELDON (1915 - 2010), scholar long as she was able. After the Mount, and a period of private coaching, Rachel went in 1934 up to Newnham College Cambridge. For Part 1 of her Tripos she read English, in which she was awarded a first, but as part of the tripos she took a paper in Anglo-Saxon taught by her supervisor Mrs Dorothy de Navarro. For Part 2 Rachel came into the orbit of the famous Hector Munro Chadwick's department
BROOKE, Dame BARBARA MURIEL (Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte), (1908 - 2000), politician Christian faith. Barbara Brooke stayed in Mildenhall, moving to a house called Romans Halt. There had been one last small campaign to complete and that was for a village hall in Mildenhall. She died at Highfield Residential Home in Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 1 September 2000 and left an estate of £473,318. The Brookes had two sons and two daughters: the elder son, Peter Brooke (born 1934) was Secretary of
BROSTER family, printers Bangor PETER BROSTER printed an edition of Y Llyfr Plygain at Chester in 1783. In 1807 JOHN BROSTER started in business at Bangor; he was probably the John Broster who had been apprenticed to W. C. Jones, printer, Chester. John Broster's son, CHARLES BROSTER, was owner, publisher, and printer in 1817 of The North Wales Gazette, a newspaper of which the first number had been produced at Bangor on 5
BRYANT, JOHN (Alawydd Glan Tâf; 1832 - 1926), harpist Born 1 February 1832 at Castellau, Llantrisant, Glamorganshire, son of Daniel Bryant, Efailisaf, Llantrisant. He received tuition in harp-playing from Llewelyn Williams ('Alawydd y De') for about two years. He was a competent player of the pedal harp, took part in many eisteddfodau and concerts in South Wales, and served as adjudicator in some eisteddfodau. He arranged variations for the harp on
BRYCHAN (fl. mid 5th century), saint wife. The ' De Situ Brecheniauc ' (Wade-Evans, Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae, 313-15), which, together with the ' Cognacio Brychan ' (Wade-Evans, op. cit., 315-18), forms the main authority for his legend, attributes to Brychan eleven sons and twenty-five daughters, and his family forms one of the three saintly tribes of Wales. 6 April is generally quoted as his feast day.
BULKELEY family 1450; two years before that one of them had married Alice, daughter of Bartholomew de Bolde, a citizen of Conway who had acquired much land on the left bank of the river, a solid nucleus to the Bulkeley lands in Arllechwedd Isaf. Acquisition of farms in Caernarvonshire and Anglesey went on apace; the family gradually grew in importance, till one of them, RICHARD (died 1546 or early 1547), was
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor ensured that he displayed his loyalty to his roots through naming his home Le Pays de Galles). His next substantial success was the musical Camelot on Broadway, which earned him great praise in 1960-61: from there he went to play the part of Mark Anthony in the film Cleopatra, with Elizabeth Taylor playing the title role. This project bloated out to become the most expensive and extravagant film that
BUSH, PERCY FRANK (1879 - 1955), rugby player . In 1918, he was appointed British Vice-Consul in that city. He returned to Wales in the mid-1930s, and was awarded the Médaille d' Argent de le Reconnaissance Française in recognition of his services to French relations with the Celtic nations. He died in Cardiff on May 19, 1955. The pacifist, Ethel M. Bush, was his sister.
CADWALADR (d. 1172), prince in the sack of the town and the capture of king Stephen. But this was no blind adventure; it must be connected with Cadwaladr's marriage to Alice de Clare, daughter of Fitz Gilbert - an alliance clearly intended to strengthen his hold upon Ceredigion and one which made him earl Randolph's nephew. A serious crime in 1143 led to a rupture with his brother. He allowed his retinue treacherously to
CADWGAN (d. 1111), prince renewing the foiled attempt upon the South, but a few weeks sufficed to show that it was the Normans who were to profit, and this on a grand scale, by the untoward event. It was about this time that Cadwgan, as a measure of defence, married the daughter of his Norman neighbour, Picot de Sai, whom Domesday shows as the lord of Clun and the surrounding area. He took an active part in the Welsh upheaval of
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician pneumonia eleven days later on 26 March 2005, a day before his 93rd birthday. His body was cremated and his ashes scattered near the statue of Peter Pan in the garden of the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital where his wife had been a governor. He is commemorated in Callaghan Square in Cardiff and by the Callaghan Building at Swansea University.

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