Dictionary of Welsh Biography

ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (Bodfan; 1875 - 1949), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author he was responsible for the sixth edition of Spurrell's Welsh-English Dictionary; later, 1916, he edited the seventh edition of Spurrell's English-Welsh Dictionary. Both ran to several further editions. He was appointed (1921) secretary of the projected Welsh dictionary sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales. On retiring from the post, he settled in Llangwnnadl
ANWYL, LEWIS (1705? - 1776), cleric and author gyfieithu o'r ail Argraphiad. The National Library of Wales has the MSS. of three other translations by Lewis Anwyl : (e) ' Addysg y Cristion … Gwedi eu cyfieithu or Saesoneg gan Lewis Anwyl, Vicar Abergele '; it has a preface dated 26 August 1766 and includes proposals for printing and publishing this work by subscription; (f) ' Traethawd Ystoriawl o'r Holl Fibl … ' The preface is dated Abergele, 15
AP GWYNN, ARTHUR (1902 - 1987), librarian and the third librarian of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth he lived until his death. He was educated in Ardwyn County School Aberystwyth, and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with first class Honours in Welsh in 1923. His thesis, 'A comparison of the Welsh version of Amlyn ac Amic with the French and Latin versions, with a study of the grammatical forms and syntax of the Welsh vesion' won him his M.A. (Wales) in 1926. After
AP THOMAS, DAFYDD RHYS (1912 - 2011), Old Testament scholar Dafydd ap Thomas was born 2 May 1912, in Menai Bridge, Anglesey, the youngest of the five sons of Reverend W. Keinion Thomas and his wife Jeanette; Gwyn, Alon, Iwan and Jac were his brothers and they had a younger sister, Truda. He received his early education at home and his secondary education at Beaumaris Grammar School before proceeding to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, where
ARNOLD family Llanthony, Llanvihangel Crucorney, moderate Protestant marquis of Worcester (later 1st duke of Beaufort), who as president of Wales had Arnold removed from the commission of the peace early in 1678. Arnold retorted by opposing Worcester's attempt to enclose Wentland forest and sending to the Speaker of the House of Commons a letter denouncing the activities of local recusants, on which he was questioned and thanked at the bar of the House
ARTHUR (fl. early 6th century?), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies concerning him developed into a curious amalgam of oral traditions about the wounded king who would one day return to liberate his fellow-countrymen (and there is contemporary evidence that this belief was current in Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany in the 12th century), pseudo-historical records and creations of the imagination of one author after another. Thus was formed one of the richest romantic cycles
ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED (1886 - 1953), agricultural economist Agriculture between 1917 and 1919, and during those years played a leading role in establishing the first Agricultural Wages Board. After a period on the staff of the Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics at Oxford, he went to Aberystwyth in 1924 as head of the new department of agricultural economics in the University College of Wales. He was made professor in 1929, the first chair in
ASHTON, CHARLES (1848 - 1899), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian intellectually and at the same time benefited his countrymen, because the National Eisteddfod Association provided him with subjects and an incentive for research. His chief eisteddfodic successes were: Caernarvon (1886), an essay on 'Cyfreithiau Hywel Dda'; London (1887), an essay on the history of the Act of Union between England and Wales, 1536; Wrexham (1888), an essay on 'Gorsedd Beirdd Ynys Prydain
ASSER (d. 909), bishop and scholar He is known almost entirely from what he tells us of himself in his life of king Alfred. He belonged to the clerical community of S. Davids, where he was brought up and educated, being a relative of bishop Nobis, who died in 873. In due course, he succeeded to the see and therewith acquired a reputation for scholarship, which spread beyond the borders of Wales. Thus it came about that in or
ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD (1867 - 1944), judge Born 28 November 1867, in Brisbane, Australia, eldest son of Robert Travers Atkin of Fernhill, co. Cork, a member of the Queensland senate. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was made hon. Fellow in 1924. He was called to the Bar in Grays Inn, 1891, becoming a Bencher in 1906, and K.C. serving on the South Wales and Chester circuit, and building up a
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

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