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teulu BERRY, industrialists and newspaper proprietors college at Cardiff, and the National Museum of Wales to which he was appointed a member of the Court of Governors shortly before his death. In 1923 he was granted the freedom of the borough of Merthyr Tydfil, and was created first Baron Buckland of Bwlch in 1926. He died 23 May 1928 after a fall from a horse. WILLIAM EWERT BERRY, 1st Viscount CAMROSE (1879 - 1954), newspaper proprietor and editor
BERTIL, PRINCESS LILIAN (DUCHESS OF HALLAND), (1915 - 2013) -Maxime in the south of France. They did not play a public role but neither were they a retiring couple but enjoyed an exciting international life of racing cars and the social round with their photographs appearing regularly in the gossip magazines. They returned to Sweden in 1957 and lived together openly. Lilian was not wholeheartedly or warmly welcomed at court but the atmosphere gradually improved
BEVAN, BRIDGET (Madam Bevan; 1698 - 1779), philanthropist and educationist The youngest daughter of John and Elizabeth Vaughan, Derllys Court, Carmarthenshire. She was christened 30 October 1698 at Merthyr church by Thomas Thomas, the rector. Noted as patron of the Welsh circulating schools, she must have known Griffith Jones, Llanddowror, from girlhood, as her father was organizer of S.P.C.K. schools in Carmarthenshire from 1700 to 1722 and Griffith Jones was in charge
BEVAN, SILVANUS (fl. 1715-1765), meddyg a Chrynwr ef fusnes fferyllydd yn 2 Old Slough Court Oxford-street yn 1715, ond yn ddiweddarach aeth yn feddyg, yn Hackney. Etholwyd ef yn 1725 yn F.R.S. ar gynnig Isaac Newton. Yn hwyr o ddydd, ac wedi ymddeol o'i alwedigaeth, daeth i deimlo diddordeb mewn hynafiaethau Cymreig, a dug hyn ef yn 1760 i gyswllt a Richard Morris; y mae amryw gyfeiriadau ato yn y Morris Letters (yn bennaf ii, 265, 336-7, 416
BEVAN, SILVANUS (1691 - 1765), Quaker physician pharmacy at 2 Old Plough Court, Oxford Street in 1715, but later practised physic at Hackney. In 1725 he had been elected F.R.S. on the proposal of Isaac Newton. A belated interest in Welsh antiquities brought him (now a retired man) in 1760 into contact with Richard Morris; and there are references to him in the Morris Letters (more especially ii, 265, 336-7, 416) which give us a picture of him: a
BEVAN, WILLIAM LATHAM (1821 - 1908), offeiriad Gelli (Hay). Bu yno am 56 mlynedd. Bu'n brebendari Llanddewi Aberarth yn eglwys gadeiriol Tyddewi 1876-9 ac yn ganon 1879-1903. Codwyd ef yn archddiacon Brycheiniog yn 1895 a bu'n gaplan arholi i esgob Tyddewi 1881-1897. Priododd Louisa, merch T. Dew, Whitney Court, ger y Gelli, a bu farw 24 Awst 1908, a'i gladdu yn y Gelli. Ymhlith pethau eraill ysgrifennodd hanes esgobaeth Tyddewi (1888) ynghyd â
BEVAN, WILLIAM LATHAM (1821 - 1908), archdeacon , of Whitney Court, near Hay, and died 24 August 1908. He was buried at Hay. Among his writings were the Diocesan History of S. David's, 1888, and various pamphlets on Church defence, besides contributions to Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, geographical manuals, and a joint account (with Canon H. W. Phillott) of the Hereford ' Mappa Mundi.' EDWARD LATHAM BEVAN (1861 - 1934), bishop Religion Fourth
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author his Connexion from 1926 till his death, and was both secretary of the committee for a long period (1930-60), and keeper of the Calvinistic Methodist Archives in the N.L.W. He was also a member of the court of the National Library for many years. He took a great interest in the Methodist 'fathers', particularly Howel Harris. He researched assiduously in Harris ' diaries, publishing extensive excerpts
BLAKE, LOIS (1890 - 1974), historian and promoter of Welsh folk dancing . Lois Blake died in Marshfield, Gloucestershire on 19 November 1974, aged 84. The funeral service was at Marshfield church. During the service one of her favourite tunes, 'Meillionen' was played (the tune for a slow and elegant court dance). Her remains were cremated at Haycombe Crematorium, Bath on 22 November.
BLETHIN, WILLIAM (fl. 1575 hyd 1590), esgob Llandaf Yr oedd yn Gymro Cymraeg a ganwyd ef yn Shirenewton Court, sir Fynwy, o linach Hywel Dda; yr oedd ei gâr Morgan Blethin yn abad Llantarnam yn 1532. Priododd Blethin Anne Young, nith Thomas Young, prifathro Broadgates Hall, Rhydychen (esgob Tyddewi ac archesgob Caerefrog wedi hynny). Pan fu Anne farw yn 1589 priododd Blethin Anne arall yr un flwyddyn. Cafodd ei addysg yn New Inn (neu Broadgates
BLETHIN, WILLIAM (fl. 1575 to 1590), bishop of Llandaff A Welsh -speaking Welshman, born at Shirenewton Court, Monmouth, of the lineage of Hywel Dda; his kinsman Morgan Blethin was abbot of Llantarnam in 1532. He married Anne Young of Pembroke, niece of Thomas Young, principal of Broadgates Hall, Oxford, later to become bishop of S. Davids and archbishop of York; she died in 1589, and Blethin married another Anne the same year. He was educated at New
teulu BODVEL Bodvel, Caerfryn, Long Parliaments, where he took his stand with the militant Protestants who opposed the court, and was nominated by the Commons as deputy-lieutenant of Caernarvonshire in March 1642. On 2 August 1642 he was given leave of absence by the House and a store of arms for the defence of 'his home in Wales,' but by May 1643 he had become a commissioner of array for Caernarvonshire and a ' custos rotulorum

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