Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANIAN (d. 1306?), bishop of Bangor Succeeded Richard (died 1267) in that see. The chapter had permission to elect on 8 November 1267, and on 12 December the Crown assented to the choice of Master Anian, archdeacon of Anglesey, whose consecration at Canterbury followed before the end of the year. The peace of Montgomery in the previous autumn had left Llywelyn ap Gruffydd as the dominant figure in Welsh affairs, and for a few years
ANIAN (d. 1266), bishop of St Asaph royal mandate been put into possession of the lands of the see. Within two months he had been consecrated by Walter of Worcester, Richard of Bangor, and Richard of Meath. According to the chronicle of Wigmore (Rylands Library MS. 1090), this took place at Leominster. On 10 July 1250, Anian granted an indulgence to penitents visiting the altar of S. Mary and S. Edmund, which he had consecrated in the
ANWYL family Park, Llanfrothen betrothal of the majority of their children to the heirs and heiresses of the neighbouring families, LEWIS ANWYL, their eldest son, died in 1641, during his shrievalty, leaving an only daughter, Catherine, who married William Owen of Brogyntyn (see the article ' Wynn and Owen, Clenennau and Brogyntyn '). RICHARD ANWYL, the youngest son, high sheriff of Merioneth, 1658 and 1659, and nominated Knight of the
ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author Born 27 June 1875 in Chester, son of John Anwyl, lay preacher, of the Anwyl family of Caerwys, Flintshire, and his wife Ellen (née Williams), whose family came from Llangwnnadl, Caernarfonshire. He entered the ministry and became minister of Elim (Congl.), Carmarthen in 1899. Owing to deafness he relinquished his church to take charge of the Deaf and Dumb Institute at Pontypridd, 1904-19. In 1914
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth 1967, a period of over 31 years. 'A story of small beginnings and a slow growth and a somewhat uncertain future.' That is how Arthur ap Gwynn himself described his period as librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, between 1932 and 1967. His predecessor, J. D. Williams concluded his account of the College Library in The College by the Sea (edited by Iwan Morgan, 1928) with
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, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), lawyer and judge James Richard Atkin was born on 28 November 1867 in Brisbane, Australia, the eldest of three sons of Robert Travers Atkin (1841-1872) of Fernhill, co. Cork, a journalist and member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, and his wife Mary Elizabeth (née Ruck, 1842-1920) of Merionethshire, Wales. His parents had recently emigrated to Australia, but his father died young in 1872. By that time
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
AUBREY, THOMAS (1808 - 1867), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister district meeting. On 6 April 1831 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Gwen Williams of Ruthin. He died at Rhyl on 16 November 1867. Thomas Aubrey is one of the outstanding figures in Welsh Wesleyan Methodist history. He was first and foremost an eloquent and successful preacher, but he was hardly less successful as an administrator, despite the slight interest he had taken in circuit
BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors iron-works at Pen-y-darren. Before Tanner had transferred his lease (in or about March, 1786) to Richard Crawshay of London, later the celebrated iron-master, Anthony Bacon had died at Cyfarthfa (21 January 1786) at the age of 67. He had left 'the extensive Works of Cyfarthfa, Plymouth and Hirwaun, all in full operation, guided by his single will,' together with an estate called ' Banklands ' in the
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author (according to John Evans's statistics of 1715) composed of people in very good circumstances; and tradition describes Baddy himself as being fashionably dressed and well mounted. He was a diligent translator of theological works (list in Ashton, Hanes llenyddiaeth Gymreig o 1651 O.C. hyd 1850, 167-77, and Williams, Llyfryddiaeth Sir Ddinbych, part 3). His original compositions, a metrical version of the

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