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37 - 48 of 923 for "Lloyd George"

37 - 48 of 923 for "Lloyd George"

  • BROMLEY, HUMPHREY (1796), Unitarian preacher financially by a local shopkeeper named Lloyd. In 1825 and 1826 he preached at the annual meetings of the South Wales Unitarian Association. He emigrated to the United States in 1833 and died there 13 December 1876 (Universalist Register, 1878, p. 86).
  • BROOKES, BEATA ANN (1930 - 2015), politician Beata Brookes was born on 21 January 1930 in Rhuddlan, Flintshire, the daughter of George Brookes, a farmer and property developer, and his wife Gwendoline. She attended Lowther College in Abergele and the University College of North Wales, Bangor. She also won an American State Department scholarship to study politics in the USA. This was followed by a brief visit to Australia to study local
  • BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman organisations that benefited from his support and expertise included the Kidney Research Unit for Wales Foundation and the London Welsh Association. He was awarded a knighthood for his public services in Wales and received an honorary LLD from the University of Wales. His last service to a Welsh cause was the role of chairman of the trust established by Lord Cledwyn to raise a statue of David Lloyd George in
  • BULKELEY-OWEN, FANNY MARY KATHERINE (1845 - 1927), author The only daughter of J. R. Ormsby-Gore (1816 - 1876), 1st baron Harlech. She was first married in 1863 to the Hon. Lloyd Kenyon (died 1865); their son, Lloyd, succeeded his grandfather in 1869 as 4th baron Kenyon. Her second marriage in 1880 was to the Reverend Thomas Mainwaring Bulkeley-Owen, of Tedsmore, West Felton (died 1910). Mrs. Bulkeley-Owen took an active interest in Welsh cultural
  • CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher ; two of the daughters were Elizabeth Davis 'of Balaclava ' and Bridget (1795? - 1878), who was maid to lady Llanover in London and at Llanover, and is buried at 'Capel Ed' near Llanover (Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hanes y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd, June 1918); they were born at Penrhiw, a farm which Dafydd Cadwaladr rented from the Rev. Simon Lloyd. About 1780 he began preaching. He knew his Bible by heart
  • CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician secretary of the constituency Labour Party, Bill Headon. Callaghan won the nomination against George Thomas by a single vote - because he wore his navy uniform for the interview according to Thomas. Cardiff South had been a Conservative seat since 1918, except a brief period when Arthur Henderson won it for Labour in 1929-31, but in the 1945 election James Callaghan (as he was now known) took the seat
  • CAMPBELL, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) commissioner in lunacy, 1886-93; and chairman of the Great Western Railway, 1895-1905. He succeeded as 3rd earl Cawdor on the death of his father, 1898. In 1905 (March-November) he was First Lord of the Admiralty in the Balfour Government. He played a leading part in opposition to the 'Lloyd George budget' of 1909 and in 1910 was concerned in discussions for the reform of the House of Lords. His interests
  • teulu CARTER Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
  • CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
  • CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Erwood and later in the neighbourhood of Cathedin. He was baptised 17 April 1887 in Hephzibah church, Erwood, and at the urging of his pastor, John Morgan, he began to preach. He resumed his education, spending 2 years at a grammar school held by Daniel Christmas Lloyd (Congl. minister), in his home, Hampton House, Glasbury, and then at the Baptist College and University College, Cardiff, where he
  • CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist , there appeared the magisterial tome George Owen of Henllys: a Welsh Elizabethan, the final product of decades of research, re-thinking and re-writing, and refined synthesis. In retirement he pressed on with his researches with renewed energy. In 1982 the Pembrokeshire Historical Society undertook the publication of his The English Dialect of South Pembrokeshire: Introduction and Word-List, a short
  • CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer his marriage in 1939 to Verlie Blanche George (1907-1981). They had a son, John, and two daughters, Janet and Susan. Work for Y Cymro almost ceased during the war years when his efforts were concentrated on the Montgomeryshire Express. He also served on the Demonstration sub-committee of the Montgomeryshire War Agricultural Executive Committee helping publicise and implement improved farming