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ABADAM, ALICE (1856 - 1940), campaigner for women's rights a broad education given at home by tutors and governesses, which resulted in her being multilingual, an accomplished musician and a talented artist. By 1886, following the death of her parents, Abadam had moved into the town of Carmarthen where she made her home for the next eighteen years in a substantial property in Picton Terrace. She had converted to Catholicism by this time and her faith was
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer be out of step with the radicalism of his sons and the determination of his wife, Beth, played by Sian Phillips, Baker sparkled. His version of Gwilym Morgan has never been bettered. How Green Was My Valley was broadcast on BBC Two between 29 December 1975 and 2 February 1976, concluding a few weeks before Baker's forty eighth birthday and eleven days before he was diagnosed with lung cancer. His
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist of schools at Laugharne (1709) and Llanddowror (1716). Moreover, Griffith Jones became connected by marriage with the Vaughan family, he and Richard Vaughan, Bridget's uncle (died 1729), marrying two sisters, Margaret and Arabella Philipps of Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire On 30 December 1721 Bridget married ARTHUR BEVAN, barrister-at-law, Laugharne. Bevan became recorder of Carmarthen borough, 1722
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician He was a member of a Swansea family, and (according to Morris Letters, ii, 336) was related to Arthur Bevan. A William Bevan, a Quaker of Swansea, was imprisoned in 1658, and died in 1701, aged 74. His son, Silvanus Bevan (1661 - 1725), married Jane Phillips of Swansea in 1685, and had several sons, two of whom moved to London. The elder, SILVANUS BEVAN, is the subject of this notice. He set up a
BEVAN, THOMAS (1796? - 1819), missionary in the service of the London Missionary Society Born in the neighbourhood of Neuadd-lwyd, Cardiganshire, about 1796. He came from a religious home, and at the age of 8 was already a reader of the Bible. He experienced conversion near Nantgwynfynydd farm, and on 19 November 1810 became a church member at Neuadd-lwyd. There, Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842), who was the minister, encouraged him to begin preaching. He then went to Phillips's school
BLEDRI ap CYDIFOR (fl. 1116-30), chieftain , and Picton. Bledri is an unusual name, and it is natural to identify the Carmarthen magnate with the ' Bledhericus ' of Gerald of Wales, whom he describes as a famous romancer, not long dead. Norman French, it is certain, was a familiar tongue to one who acted as interpreter between the two races. It is a further step, not accepted on all hands, to find in the same man the ' Breri ' who is treated
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff despite being recommended by the executive council to an enthusiastic meeting of nearly nine hundred church representatives in Cardiff on 20 September, he conceded the principalship to Thomas Phillips (1868 - 1936) by only four votes, because, it was generally held, of his lack of knowledge of Welsh. After the death of Thomas Phillips, he was appointed to the post, July 1936, though not without much
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer . Returning to Carmarthen to follow his trade, he married Sarah, the daughter of Samuel Levi Phillips, a banker (and a Christianized Jew) of Haverfordwest. He joined the Methodist congregation in Water Street, and was elected elder. He soon became one of the outstanding Methodist leaders in South Wales and took a prominent part in establishing the Home Mission and drawing up the Cyffes Ffydd (confession of
DAVIES, EDWIN (1859 - 1919), editor and publisher in 1859. Other important works published by Davies were The Birds of Breconshire, by E. C. Phillips, 1899; Theophilus Jones, F.S.A., historian: his life, letters, and literary remains (ed. by E.D.), 1905; and Parochial registers and records: being transcripts from parish documents, compiled by E.D., 1906. He died at his residence, Dinas Lodge, Brecon, 7 February 1919, and was buried in the Brecon
DAVIES, EVAN (1805 - 1864), missionary under the London Missionary Society, Independent minister, and author under Dr. Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842), after which he was admitted to the Independent College (Western Academy) at Exeter. He was ordained minister of Great Torrington church, Devon, but in 1835 was accepted by the London Missionary Society and sent out to Penang in the Malacca Straits. He returned in 1840, his health having broken down. He became successively agent for the mission (1840-2
DAVIES, JOHN (Siôn Gymro; 1804 - 1884), Independent minister, linguist, and commentator Born at Bwlch-yr-helygen in the parish of Llanarth, Cardiganshire, 5 March 1804, but his parents - David and Mary Davies - shortly afterwards moved to a near-by farm called Castell-y-geifr. His father, whose education was above the average, was his first teacher, but when he was 7 years old he was sent to the school at Neuaddlwyd kept by Thomas Phillips (1772 - 1842). He began to preach on 1 July
DAVIES, LEWIS (1863 - 1951), novelist, local historian, schoolmaster Phillips at the Neath eisteddfod, 1918 for a comprehensive essay on the history of the Vale of Neath. For many years he was the columnist ' Eryr Craig y Llyn' in Y Brython and was a regular contributor to the newspapers of south Wales, both national and local. He won several chairs for poetry at local eisteddfodau and was an authority on the tribannau of Glamorgan. He shared the prize for a fine

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