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ATKIN, LEON (1902 - 1976), minister of the Social Gospel and a campaigner for the underclass in south Wales through the News of the World. In the bitter winter of 1947 his chapel became a refuge for dozens of men who would otherwise have perished. He visited weekly, every Friday, the public houses of Swansea to collect money to enable poor children from Swansea to enjoy Guy Fawkes night and to be taken by him to the circus. Atkin could not be content within any movement or organisation. He was a maverick, an
AUBREY, THOMAS (1808 - 1867), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister district meeting. On 6 April 1831 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Robert and Gwen Williams of Ruthin. He died at Rhyl on 16 November 1867. Thomas Aubrey is one of the outstanding figures in Welsh Wesleyan Methodist history. He was first and foremost an eloquent and successful preacher, but he was hardly less successful as an administrator, despite the slight interest he had taken in circuit
AUBREY, WILLIAM (c. 1529 - 1595), civil lawyer Court of Canterbury (c. 1592), including many important cases in ecclesiastical, international, constitutional, and maritime law, and a number of special commissions with a political bearing. In the ecclesiastical field he threw the weight of his learning into the drive against Puritan and Brownist opinions in Church and university (1587-90), and took part in the condemnation of his distant kinsman
AURELIUS CANINUS (fl. 540), prince Aurelianus stigmatized earlier in the work. 'Caninus' may have been a jest of the author at the expense of the prince's Celtic name. Aurelius is held up to scorn as a man of unclean life, a murderer, a lover of civil war and plunder. His relatives are all dead and he stands alone, like a dry tree in an open field. The notice ends with a stern call to repentance. In the deft hands of Geoffrey of Monmouth
teulu BACON, iron-masters and colliery proprietors , Robert (Smith), William (Smith), Elizabeth. Their mother was provided with a sum of £1,000, together with a sum of £50 annually to maintain each of the four younger children, while in her care, until they were taken away by the executors for their education. Richard Crawshay, who later became the owner of the Cyfarthfa works, was a witness to the will, but was not one of the executors. Bacon's son
BADDY, THOMAS (bu farw 1729), Independent minister and author there till his death in June 1729, also ministering to the congregations of Wrexham and of Bala during pastoral vacancies at either place. He married Anne, daughter of Robert Salusbury of Galltfaenan (Palmer, The Older Nonconformity of Wrexham); their daughter married a prosperous Denbigh tradesman called Pugh, on whose land Swan Lane chapel was built in 1742. Baddy's congregation of sixty was
BAKER, DAVID (1575 - 1641), Benedictine scholar and mystic congregation, in which he had the support of the Government, now under the personal rule of Charles I and eager to advance the Benedictine claims both for patriotic reasons and as a counterweight to the politically far more dangerous Jesuits. He was given access to the State papers in the Tower and the use of private libraries like that of Sir Robert Cotton (to whom he had written while still at Cambrai
BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist -great-grandson of Robert Vaughan the antiquary, who was then in considerable financial difficulties and threatened even with the loss of his patrimony. Towards the end of 1778 she went to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd, which she literally held against the assaults of under-sheriffs and bailiffs, who eventually, however, secured admission on behalf of Hugh Vaughan's creditors. Later she
BAKER, WILLIAM STANLEY (1928 - 1976), actor and producer his knighthood in the resignation honours in 1976. For his part, Baker starred in Labour Party campaign broadcasts and was an implacable opponent of Welsh nationalism, which he thought 'foolish and misguided'. Post-war Britain was not short of working-class Welsh actors who rose to the top of their profession, but in a crowded field Stanley Baker more than held his own. Together with his friends
BARRETT, JOHN HENRY (1913 - 1999), naturalist and conservationist the three responsible for the fire. In 1940, he married Ruth Byass who supported him loyally in all his many activities and enterprises. They had four children, Jane born in 1941, Michael in 1942, Richard in 1946 and Robert in 1951. In September 1941 the now Squadron Leader Barrett was posted to Linton, near York to the first Halifax squadron only to be shot down on his first flight over Germany. He
BARRETT, RACHEL (1874 - 1953), suffragette behalf of the Cymric Suffrage Union. During the same month, Rachel and the Ranee of Sarawak, Margaret Brooke, conducted a series of open-air meetings in Hertfordshire. Although there are few reports of the content of her speeches, Rachel focused on the general issues surrounding the cause of votes for women and on the status of imprisoned suffragettes, calling for them to be treated as political
BARTRUM, PETER CLEMENT (1907 - 2008), scholar of Welsh genealogy . Litt. by the University of Wales in 1988. Apart from genealogy and legend his interests included mathematical problems, and as well as articles on meteorological subjects he published papers on relativity and the Null electromagnetic field, including a paper entitled 'Rotation in General Relativity with Applications to the Case of a Rotating Particle', published by the Royal Society. He was a keen

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