Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, that it was his cousin William Crawshay I, of London, the then proprietor of Cyfarthfa, who prevented Crawshay Bailey from continuing in possession. It was Crawshay Bailey who constructed the tramway from Rhymney to Bassaleg, and this appears to confirm the tradition that he was connected with the Rhymney iron-works. During 1835, when the Calvinistic Methodist Association of South Wales held its
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, industry and coal-mining in all their branches. Later he was joined by his younger brother, Crawshay Bailey, and both won the favour of their uncle, who, at his death (1810), left a quarter share of the Cyfarthfa iron-works to Joseph. The latter looked around for a suitable district where he could establish his own iron-works, as his cousin, William Crawshay I, was anxious to become the sole proprietor
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic He was born at Abergavenny, of an old local family (of the same original stock as the Cecils) which had only recently dropped the Welsh patronymic for the English surname. His father, William Baker, a public-spirited man who did much for fruit culture and the cloth industry in his neighbourhood, was a J.P. and steward to the lords of Abergavenny; his mother, Maud Lewis, was daughter to Lewis
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer supporting roles to that of lead actor. Baker's first lead role was as Tom Yately in Cy Endfield's 1957 classic, Hell Drivers, opposite Patrick McGoohan and William Hartnell. Endfield had previously cast Baker in his 1956 drama Child in the House. The pair struck up a close working relationship and went on to establish Diamond Films - the production company responsible for making Zulu in 1964. As an actor
BANCROFT, WILLIAM JOHN (1871 - 1959), rugby player and cricketer Born 2 March 1871, son of William Bancroft, Carmarthen Arms, Waterloo Street, Swansea, the eldest of 11 children. He plied his craft as a shoemaker. He was born in Carmarthen but was brought up in the shadow of Saint Helen's sports ground, Swansea. He played for the local youth team, the Excelsiors, before playing his first game for Swansea on 5 October 1889. After only 17 games, and without a
BARHAM family Trecŵn, - 1878), M.P. for Appleby (1832), J.P. for Pembroke and Westmorland, and M.A., Oxford. He married (1), 1836, Elizabeth Maria (died 1860), daughter of William Boyd Ince of Ince, co. Lancaster, and (2), Ellen Catherine, daughter of E. T. Massey, of Cottesmore, Pembrokeshire From about 1855 it was the Rev. Charles Foster-Barham and his first wife who mainly supported a school (first kept across the
BARKER, THOMAS WILLIAM (1861 - 1912), registrar of the diocese of S. Davids
BARLOW, WILLIAM (1499? - 1568), bishop . Roger Barlow afterwards became a justice of the peace and a vice-admiral within the shire. JOHN BARLOW Another brother, who graduated M.A. at Oxford in 1521, and who later became a diplomat. He was made archdeacon of Westbury-on-Trym, and afterwards dean of Worcester. He was very active in South Wales, particularly when William Barlow was bishop of S. Davids.
BARLOW, Sir WILLIAM OWEN Orielton (d. 1851) - see OWEN
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 correspondents. His office of judge of Merioneth, Caernarvonshire, and Anglesey circuit (Court of Great Sessions), which he held for over twenty years from 1757, brought him frequently to North Wales. He was subsequently a judge in the Chester circuit; and it was during his Chester period that he was associated with lord Kenyon to hear the application for the adjournment of the trial of William Davies Shipley

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