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ABRAHAM
(d. 1232), bishop of St Asaph
Consecrated by Stephen Langton at Westminster 29 June 1225. His previous record is not known, but he was probably a Welshman. Peniarth MS 20 names him 'euream.' In 1227 he granted to Valle Crucis the second half of the church of
Wrexham
, and in 1232 to the same abbey a portion of Llangollen church.
APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES
(Nimrod; 1779 - 1843), writer on sport
Born 1779 at Plas Gronow (now demolished), near
Wrexham
, second son of Thomas Apperley; his mother was a daughter of William Wynn (1709 - 1760), of Maes y Neuadd, Talsarnau, Meironnydd, rector of Llangynhafal. Educated at Rugby (1790), Apperley became in 1798 cornet in Sir Watkin William Wynn's Ancient British Light Dragoons and served in Ireland. He married (1801) Winifred, daughter of William
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Sir ROBERT
(1857 - 1943), physician and alienist
Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaearn, Caernarfonshire, son of Thomas Jones, minister (Congl.), Eisteddfa, Cricieth, and Jane Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Jones, of the same place. Educated at Porthmadog grammar school, Grove Park school,
Wrexham
, U.C.N.W., Bangor, and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he became M.D. (Lond.), 1885, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), 1886, and F.R.C.P. (Lond.), 1908. He specialised 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
BADDY, THOMAS
(d. 1729), Independent minister and author
The date of his birth is unknown. He would seem to have been a
Wrexham
man; the Presbyterian Fund Board, when making him a grant in 1690, describes him as 'Mr. Tho. Baddie of
Wrexham
' (Nicholson and Axon, The Older Nonconformity in Kendal, 579); and he had a brother, Owen Baddy, who was a schoolmaster at
Wrexham
(Palmer, The Older Nonconformity of
Wrexham
, 69 n.); the name is said to be a
BREESE, JOHN
(1789 - 1842), Independent minister
admitted to the Academy under George Lewis, which had just moved from
Wrexham
to Llanfyllin. While there his ability as a preacher attracted attention, and in 1817 he was called to be minister of the church in Edmund Street, Liverpool, shortly afterwards moving to the Tabernacle, Great Crosshall Street. Here he worked hard for seventeen years to develop the Welsh Independent connexion in the city, and on
BRERETON, JANE
(1685 - 1740), poetess
She was the daughter of Thomas and Anne Hughes, Bryn Griffith, near Mold. In 1711 she married Thomas Brereton (1691 - 1722), one of the minor English dramatists. On the death of her husband in 1722 she is said to have settled in
Wrexham
where she died 7 August 1740 and was survived by two daughters. Showing an aptitude for writing English verse she became a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine
BRISCOE, THOMAS
(1813 - 1895), cleric and scholar
Born 30 June 1813 at
Wrexham
, son of Richard Briscoe, druggist; educated at Ruthin School and Jesus College, Oxford; B.A. (First Class Lit. Hum., 1833; M.A., 1836; B.D., 1843; D.D., 1868). Ordained deacon 1836, priest 1837, by the bishop of Oxford; Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 1834-59; tutor, 1835-9 and 1843-57; vice-principal, 1849-58; perpetual curate of Henllan, Denbighshire, 1830-40
BROOKES, BEATA ANN
(1930 - 2015), politician
Brookes died on 17 August 2015 in a care home in
Wrexham
.
BROUGHTON
family Marchwiel,
The Broughton family probably originated in and took their name from the township of that name in Cheshire; they first appear on the western side of the Dee in the 16th century, when RALPH BROUGHTON was in possession of Plas Isa, Is-y-coed, Denbighshire. His third son VALENTINE BROUGHTON (died 1603), alderman of Chester, was an early benefactor if not founder of
Wrexham
grammar school. MORGAN
BRYAN, JOHN
(1776 - 1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister
Born at Llanfyllin, where he spent much of his childhood with his uncle, a certain John Rogers. At the age of 12 he moved to Shrewsbury, and then in the course of the following years to Corwen, Bala, and
Wrexham
, whence, in 1798, he went to Chester as an assistant in the drapery business of the Misses Williams, daughters of Richard Williams of Rackery, near Gresford. He underwent the spiritual
BRYAN, ROBERT
(1858 - 1920), poet and composer
Born 6 September 1858 at Camddwr, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl, Denbighshire, son of Edward and Elinor Bryan. He was a pupil and a pupil teacher at the
Wrexham
British School, and, later, entered Bangor Normal College. He became a teacher at Whitland, Carmarthenshire; Corwen; and Tal-y-sarn, Caernarfonshire He afterwards was a student at Aberystwyth University College and in Oxford, where he planned to take
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