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teulu BERRY, industrialists and newspaper proprietors loan of £100 from his elder brother, he started an entirely new periodical, Advertising World. He then asked his younger brother, JAMES GOMER BERRY, to come to assist him with the second issue, thus starting a partnership which lasted over 35 years. Four years later the periodical was sold to enable them to set up a small publishing company, Ewart, Seymour and Co., Ltd.; they also acquired their
BEYNON, ROBERT (1881 - 1953), minister (Presb.), poet and essayist artistry as a polished writer. He and Rhys Davies (one of the elders of the church) were co-authors of a history of Carmel (1921). He was a very popular preacher throughout Wales, and the congregations doted upon the beauty of his turn of phrase and his terse, brilliant sayings. No doubt it was because of this that he was chosen to deliver the (unpublished) Davies Lecture on ' Y ffordd dra rhagorol ' in
BEYNON, TOM (1886 - 1961), minister (Presb.), historian and author , Y Traethodydd, and local papers such as The Llanelly Mercury and The Welsh Gazette (see his Bibliogaphy in Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, 47). He was co-editor of Y Pair, the college magazine, when he was in Bala, and he edited the journal of the Calvinistic Methodist history society from 1933 to 1947, and contributed much to it. He was a member of the history committee of
BEYNON, Sir WILLIAM JOHN GRANVILLE (1914 - 1996), Professor of Physics involved in an international study of the ionosphere at Aberystwyth to gain in situ measurements of plasma properties, in addition to the conventional radio soundings. He also introduced the group at Aberystwyth to the use of new techniques of incoherent radar, based on Thomson scattering from individual ionospheric electrons. He took an active interest in international co-operation in solar-terrestrial physics. The International Council of
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician of the strongest supporters of the campaign to ensure that Lord Home should succeed him, and he made a point of travelling to the annual party conference to press his views upon his parliamentary colleagues. He served as a director of the London and Manchester Assurance Co. Having previously farmed in Flintshire, Birch built up a small estate worth some £60,000 in Hampshire. He was elected
teulu BLAYNEY Gregynog, Essex to Ireland. He distinguished himself in the fighting in Ireland, and in 1603 he was knighted and, in 1621, elevated to the peerage of Ireland as lord Blayney, baron of Monaghan, co. Monaghan. His second son, ARTHUR (the husband of Joyce Blayney), was knighted for bravery in the battle of Beaumaris He was sheriff of Montgomeryshire in 1644. During the Civil War he assisted Sir William Owen of
teulu BODVEL Bodvel, Caerfryn, heir of Hugh Gwyn Bodvel's grandson Sir John Bodvel (kt. 1614, died 1631) and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Wynn of Gwydir (1553 - 1626). He entered the Middle Temple in 1633 and in 1640 married Ann, daughter of Sir William Russell of Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, co-Treasurer of the Navy. He sat for Anglesey (where his grandfather had acquired by marriage the estate of Caerfryn) in the Short and
BOSSE-GRIFFITHS, KATE (1910 - 1998), Egyptologist and author Rev. Euros Bowen and William Thomas (Pennar) Davies, co-founded the journal Y Fflam (The Flame), the couple moved to Swansea, where Gwyn had been appointed Lecturer in Classics and Egyptology in 1946. It was here that they raised their two sons, authors and publishers Robat Gruffudd (born 1943) and Heini Gruffudd (born 1946), while Kate was working as Honorary Curator of Archaeology at Swansea
BOWDEN, HERBERT WILLIAM (BARON AYLESTONE), (1905 - 1994), politician was cited as a co-respondent when Joseph Clayton, his next-door neighbour, divorced his wife, Vera Clayton. Neither Lord Aylestone nor Mrs Clayton defended this petition and Lord Aylestone was ordered to pay costs. The case achieved wide publicity and Lord Aylestone retired from public life for a time. He caused some surprise when he joined the Social Democrat Party in 1981 and held the post of
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian such as (a) Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, co. Gloucester… 1889; (b) The Diary of Walter Powell, 1907; (c) Acts of the Bishop of Llandaff, 1908; (d) Llyfr Baglan, 1910; (e) (ed.) Hanes Llanffwyst by Thomas Evan Watkins, Eiddil Ifor, 1922; (f) A Dissertation on Three Books, 1923; (g) A History of the Free
teulu BRAOSE full rights in Barnstaple by agreement with the co-heir. In 1200 he received the Honour of Limerick on payment of 5,000 marks at 500 marks a year, and, later, the town of Limerick. He became lord of Gower (1203) and of the Three Castles (1205). In 1207 he suddenly fell from grace, largely because of his failure to meet the charges on his estates. His English estates were distrained and the royal army
teulu BUTE (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), . Viscount Windsor sold some of the family's Monmouthshire lordships, but the Glamorgan estates descended to his granddaughter, CHARLOTTE JANE, co-heiress of the 2nd viscount. She married, 1766, JOHN, LORD MOUNTSTUART (1744 - 1814), son and heir of the 3rd earl of Bute, who was prime minister from 1762 to 1763. In 1776 lord Mountstuart was created baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle, and, in 1796, viscount

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