Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere Granville Beynon was born 24 May 1914, at Dunvant, Swansea, the youngest of four children of William Beynon (a colliery checkweigher) and Mary (née Thomas). He went to Gowerton Grammar School and University College of Swansea, (1931), graduating BSc (Physics, 1st class honours, 1934), followed by a PhD degree (1939) for research in absorption and dispersion of ultraviolet radiation in organic
BLACKWELL, JOHN (Alun; 1797 - 1840), cleric and poet Garmon,' and another at Ruthin in the same year for an awdl on 'Genedigaeth Iorwerth II.' He was also successful as a writer of essays, and letters written by him appeared in Y Gwyliedydd. All this brought him to the notice of certain gentlemen and clergymen, who subscribed to a fund to enable him to pursue a course of education. In January 1824 he went to Thomas Richards (1785 - 1855), to prepare for
BLAKE, LOIS (1890 - 1974), historian and promoter of Welsh folk dancing Llangwm primary school, she began to teach the school children some simple dances. Then Lois Blake began to seriously research and discover as much as possible about the tradition of folk dance in Wales. She had invaluable support and help from W. S. Gwynn Williams (Llangollen), Ceinwen Thomas (daughter of Margretta Thomas who recalled the Nantgarw dances) and a number of dancers, P. E. teachers and
BLAYNEY family Gregynog, the family was continued by Griffith's son EVAN LLOYD ap GRIFFITH and by his grandson THOMAS AP EVAN LLOYD whose son, DAVID LLOYD BLAYNEY, was sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1577 and 1585. David Lloyd Blayney's wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis Jones of Bishop's Castle, and their eldest son, LEWIS BLAYNEY, was deputy-sheriff to his father in 1577 and 1585. Lewis Blayney married Bridget, daughter
BLAYNEY, THOMAS (1785), harpist Born at Tyn-y-coed, Llanllwchaiarn, Montgomeryshire, the son of Arthur and Letitia Blayney. He won the prize (a silver harp and thirty guineas) in the Carmarthen eisteddfod of 1819. Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) says that Blayney was the first whom he heard playing on the triple-harp; he also testifies to his renown as a harpist. He kept a public-house at Lydney North, near Walcot, the Shropshire
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 year he parted with Methodism (Trevecka letter 973, and another letter printed in H. J. Hughes, Life of Howell Harris, 270), and decided to enter the Independent ministry, being admitted c. 13 September member of Pant Teg church, then under Christmas Samuel. There are references to him, throughout 1744, in Thomas Morgan's diary (NLW MS 5456A). On 26 September 1745 (Cilgwyn church book, in Cofiadur
BODVEL family Bodvel, Caerfryn, of him. ROBERT GWYNNE (fl. 1578) He was probably of the same family, but no record of his origins has as yet come to light. CHARLES GWYNNE, alias Bodvel or Bodwell, alias Browne (1582 - 1647), Jesuit missioner Religion The son of Thomas Wynn of Boduan, Pwllheli (younger son of John Wyn ap Hugh of Bodvel) and of Elizabeth, daughter of Owen ap Gruffydd of Plas Du and sister of Hugh Owen. He was
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author the Classics and in Egyptology. They were married in 1939, and moved to Pentre in the Rhondda Valley, where Gwyn had been appointed a teacher at Porth County School. Writers, poets and pacifists began to gather around them to form Cylch Cadwgan (the Cadogan Circle). Members of the group, like William Thomas (Pennar) Davies and Rhydwen Williams, must have been impressed by Kate, who brought an
BOWEN family Llwyn-gwair, John Griffith, son of Sir William Griffith, Penrhyn, Caernarfonshire. Thomas Nicholas gives some details of the pedigree of the family in his Annals of the…County Families of Wales, 1872, see also similar works on ancient families of Wales, etc. GEORGE BOWEN (1722 - 1810) comes into the pages of Methodist history because of his friendship with John Wesley, David Jones (Llan-gan), and others. He was
BOWEN, BEN (1878 - 1903), student and poet The sixth child of Thomas and Dinah Bowen, Treorchy, Rhondda, he was educated at Treorchy Board School, Pontypridd Collegiate School, and Cardiff University College. As a young coal miner he was precociously interested in poetry under the influence of local literary societies, eisteddfodau, and the writings of D. W. Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) in The South Wales Weekly News and Thomas Williams

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