Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BACON family, iron-masters and colliery proprietors , Robert (Smith), William (Smith), Elizabeth. Their mother was provided with a sum of £1,000, together with a sum of £50 annually to maintain each of the four younger children, while in her care, until they were taken away by the executors for their education. Richard Crawshay, who later became the owner of the Cyfarthfa works, was a witness to the will, but was not one of the executors. Bacon's son
BADDY, THOMAS (d. 1729), Independent minister and author there till his death in June 1729, also ministering to the congregations of Wrexham and of Bala during pastoral vacancies at either place. He married Anne, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Palmer, The Older Nonconformity of Wrexham); their daughter married a prosperous Denbigh tradesman called Pugh, on whose land Swan Lane chapel was built in 1742. Baddy's congregation of sixty was
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic congregation, in which he had the support of the Government, now under the personal rule of Charles I and eager to advance the Benedictine claims both for patriotic reasons and as a counterweight to the politically far more dangerous Jesuits. He was given access to the State papers in the Tower and the use of private libraries like that of Sir Robert Cotton (to whom he had written while still at Cambrai
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist -great-grandson of Robert Vaughan the antiquary, who was then in considerable financial difficulties and threatened even with the loss of his patrimony. Towards the end of 1778 she went to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd, which she literally held against the assaults of under-sheriffs and bailiffs, who eventually, however, secured admission on behalf of Hugh Vaughan's creditors. Later she
BARHAM family Trecŵn, On 1 July 1754 at Cheltenham, Dorothea, fourth daughter of John Vaughan of Trecŵn and Joan Corbet his wife, married JOSEPH FOSTER -BARHAM, son of Colonel John Foster (1681 - 1731), of Egham House, Surrey, and Jamaica. He was born 16 December 1729 in Jamaica, where the family had large estates which he inherited. He assumed the surname of his step-father, Dr. Henry Barham, in 1750, and died in
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the three responsible for the fire. In 1940, he married Ruth Byass who supported him loyally in all his many activities and enterprises. They had four children, Jane born in 1941, Michael in 1942, Richard in 1946 and Robert in 1951. In September 1941 the now Squadron Leader Barrett was posted to Linton, near York to the first Halifax squadron only to be shot down on his first flight over Germany. He
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette prisoners. She also defended the more aggressive methods of campaigning, including the burning of buildings and the smashing of windows. In August 1912, she was part of a delegation of four women who met with Robert Borden, the Prime Minister of Canada, at the Savoy Hotel. One aspect of Rachel Barrett's work for the movement was her photography of significant occasions. This may explain why her own
BASSETT, HULDAH CHARLES (1901 - 1982), teacher, musician and broadcaster , where she collaborated with her colleague Rhyda A. Jones, who taught music: their carol, 'Ymdaenai cyfrin lenni'r nos' was published by Oxford University Press and the National Council of Music in 1932 and again in Carolau Hen a Newydd in 1954. It was in Barry also that she completed her research on the life and work of the poet 'Golyddan' (John Robert Pryse, 1840-1862), and was awarded a University
BAUGH, ROBERT (1748? - 1832), engraver, map-maker, and musician
BAXTER, GEORGE ROBERT WYTHEN (1815 - 1854), author
BAYLY, LEWIS (d. 1631), bishop and devotional writer Llanedi, 1606-13, and was nominated bishop of Bangor in 1616. In 1611, most probably, appeared the first edition of his Practice of Piety, a book of devotion that became exceedingly popular; the 11th ed. appeared in 1619, the 71st in 1792; the 1st Welsh ed., translated by Rowland Vaughan of Caergai, came out in 1630 - Yr Ymarfer o Dduwioldeb - followed by five more editions (up to 1730). He rather
BERRY, ROBERT GRIFFITH (1869 - 1945), minister (Congl.) and writer

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