Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist from the diary, together with details of her struggle on her own behalf and on behalf of the Hengwrt house and estate, were printed (ed. B. B. Thomas) in N.L.W. Jnl., iii, 81-101; they throw much interesting light on local history and persons both in the Dolgelley district and elsewhere. She was buried in Dolgelley churchyard on 26 November 1789, probably in a pauper's grave.
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer Christopher Fry's A Sleep of Prisoners. The production subsequently transferred to the United States. Whilst there, Baker read Nicholas Monserrat's 1951 novel The Cruel Sea and resolved to win the part of Lt. James Bennett in the forthcoming film adaptation directed by Charles Frend. The role proved to be Baker's breakout, winning him increasing prominence in the cinema and affording a chance to move from
BALLINGER, Sir JOHN (1860 - 1933), first librarian of the National Library of Wales assistance and advice there of such people as James Ifano Jones and Professor Thomas Powel. With the help of Ifano he arranged for publication in 1898 a catalogue of the Welsh and Celtic portions of the contents of the Cardiff Public Library; evidence of Ifano's assistance is also seen in what Ballinger published on Vicar Prichard of Llandovery (1899), the Trevecka printing press (1905), and The Bible in
BARHAM family Trecŵn, Trecŵn, he was M.P. for Stockbridge for about fifty years. On his death in 1832 he was succeeded by his eldest son JOHN FOSTER -BARHAM, M.P. for Stockbridge and afterwards for Kendal, who, in 1834, married lady Catherine Grimstone, daughter of the earl of Verulam, but died without issue in 1838. He was succeeded by his brother (the third son), the Rev. CHARLES HENRY FOSTER -BARHAM of Trecŵn (1808
BARHAM, DIANA (1763 - 1823), peeress in her own right, 1813, benefactress of the evangelical movement The only daughter of Charles Middleton, lord Barham, and Margaret his wife, of Barham Court, Kent. She married Sir Gerard Noel in 1780. In 1813 she settled in Gower, and, being of an evangelical disposition, began with the help of the Methodists to establish religious congregations and to build chapels for them in the English -speaking parts of the peninsula. Her association with the Methodists
BARKER family, artists BENJAMIN BARKER (died 1774?), foreman and enamel painter at the japan works, Pontypool, expert at painting sporting and animal figures Art and Architecture According to the Trevethin church register (quoted by Sir Joseph A. Bradney), he was paid six guineas in 1774 for painting a royal coat of arms. A sporting scene painted by him on japanware is in the N.M.W. His sons, Thomas Barker, R.A., and
BARKER, THOMAS WILLIAM (1861 - 1912), registrar of the diocese of S. Davids
BARLOW, THOMAS, rector Catfield - see BARLOW, WILLIAM
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop Cantabrigienses), adopted a later date. He left two sons, and five daughters, all of whom were married to bishops. ROGER BARLOW His brother, founded the famous family of Slebech. He was a merchant and discoverer of note. In 1546 he and his brother, THOMAS BARLOW, rector of Catfield, Norfolk, bought the lands of the preceptory of Slebech and the priory of Haverfordwest, and the house of the Black Friars there
BARNES, EDWARD (fl. c. 1760-1795), poet and translator of religious books Born at S. Asaph, where he served as a schoolmaster. According to Josiah Thomas Jones in his Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol o Enwogion Cymru, he became a Methodist and lived for many years in Montgomeryshire, where he welcomed itinerant preachers to his house. Two of his carols, a song against drunkenness and another against worldly desires, are printed in Cyfaill i'r Cymro, collected by William Hope of
BARRETT, WILLIAM LEWIS (1847 - 1927), flautist Born in London, the son of Thomas Barrett and a Welsh mother (Mary Lewis) from Dinas Mawddwy, at which place the family was brought up. The father was a skilled violin player. William Barrett was given violin lessons when he was quite young; he also learned to play the flute. He was apprenticed to a merchant in Old Change, S. Paul's, London. He received further instruction on the flute from
BARRINGTON, DAINES (1727/1728 - 1800), lawyer, antiquary, and naturalist work of Evan Evans (Ieuan Brydydd Hir) on early Welsh literature, and it was (bishop) Percy and Daines Barrington who brought Ieuan to the notice of Thomas Gray and of Samuel Johnson (Cymm., 1951, 69). He died 14 March 1800.

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