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BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman in Wales, holding, like his father, the office of Prior for Wales from 1958 to 1988. Youth work was also a family tradition and Lord Aberdare was president of the Welsh YMCA. Together with a small number of leading Welshmen, he was a trustee of the St. David's Theatre Trust, which campaigned unsuccessfully during the nineteen-sixties to establish a national theatre in Wales. Other Welsh
BRUNT, Sir DAVID (1886 - 1965), meteorologist and vice-president of the Royal Society Born 17 June 1886 at Staylittle, Montgomeryshire, the youngest of the five sons and four daughters of John Brunt, a farm worker, and Mary (née Jones) his wife. Up to the age of ten David was a pupil at the village school, then in the charge of a single teacher who gave all his instruction in Welsh. In 1896 John Brunt moved his family to the south Wales coalfield where he subsequently worked as a
BRYAN, ROBERT (1858 - 1920), poet and composer this family claim notice. The eldest of the brothers, JOHN DAVIES (died 13 November 1888), founded a small shop in Cairo in 1886 and was soon joined by the second brother, Joseph Davies (below), and in 1888 by the third, EDWARD DAVIES (died 1929). The firm prospered exceedingly, eventually owning large stores in Cairo and Alexandria, with branches in Port Said and Khartoum; it was so widely trusted
BRYCHAN (fl. mid 5th century), saint wife. The ' De Situ Brecheniauc ' (Wade-Evans, Vitae Sanctorum Britanniae et Genealogiae, 313-15), which, together with the ' Cognacio Brychan ' (Wade-Evans, op. cit., 315-18), forms the main authority for his legend, attributes to Brychan eleven sons and twenty-five daughters, and his family forms one of the three saintly tribes of Wales. 6 April is generally quoted as his feast day.
BRYN-JONES, DELME (1934 - 2001), opera singer National Eisteddfod in Haverfordwest, taking the name Delme Bryn. In 1963 he married Carolyn (née Savory), with whom he had two children, Emma and Tom. Carolyn died in 1996. The family, which from necessity had been based in London, moved back to Wales in 1977 and settled at Y Bwthyn, Llanarth, Ceredigion. It was there that he died on 25 May 2001 of a pulmonary embolism. He was cremated and his ashes
teulu BULKELEY 1450; two years before that one of them had married Alice, daughter of Bartholomew de Bolde, a citizen of Conway who had acquired much land on the left bank of the river, a solid nucleus to the Bulkeley lands in Arllechwedd Isaf. Acquisition of farms in Caernarvonshire and Anglesey went on apace; the family gradually grew in importance, till one of them, RICHARD (died 1546 or early 1547), was
BURTON, PHILIP HENRY (1904 - 1995), teacher, writer, radio producer and theatre director P. H. Burton was born in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan on 30 November 1904. His parents were Emma Matilda Burton (née Mears, died 1934) and her second husband, Henry Burton (died 1919), a collier, originally from a middle class Staffordshire family. His mother, a nurse, had moved from Somerset to Mountain Ash as a child. Her son William Wilson (from her first marriage to a Scots collier working in
BURTON, RICHARD (1925 - 1984), stage and film actor Richard Walter Jenkins was born in Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Glamorganshire, on 10 November 1925, the twelfth child of Richard Walter Jenkins (a miner who was fond of his pint) and his wife Edith (née Thomas). Following his mother's death barely two years later, Richard went to live with his eldest sister, Cecilia, in the neighboring village of Taibach. The family was Welsh-speaking and Richard retained
BUSH, PERCY FRANK (1879 - 1955), rugby player Born 23 June 1879, in Cardiff. The family came originally from Penygraig. His father, James Bush, was an art teacher and one of the founders of the Cardiff rugby club in 1875. Percy Bush was educated at University College, Cardiff. He won 8 caps as an outside-half between 1905 and 1910. He was a remarkable character, full of humour and the unexpected on the rugby field. He was completely self
teulu BUTE (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), This note will concern itself only with the Welsh associations of this influential family, whose main seat is in the Island of Bute, Scotland. WILLIAM HERBERT (died 1570) The son and heir of Richard Herbert of Ewyas, by Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Matthew Cradock of Swansea, was created baron Herbert of Cardiff and earl of Pembroke in 1551. The Herberts earls of Pembroke (of the second
CADWALADR (bu farw 664), prince oldest form of the ' Pedigrees of the Saints,' the saint is said to be the son of Iago ap Beli (The Lives of the British Saints, iv, 369), i.e. great-uncle of the prince, and it is possible that two members of the same family have been confused. Geoffrey of Monmouth winds up his 'History of the Kings of Britain' with his own fanciful version of the doings of Cadwaladr and ends by tacking on to the
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet Of Celynin, near Conway, according to Siôn Edwart, but of the 'College' in that town, according to his own testimony (Llanstephan MS 15 (37)). The first date we have for him is 1666; he wrote a poem to one of the Gwydir family in 1674 and many poems to various members of the Mostyn family, one being to Thomas Mostyn at the New Year, 1678. We have no further dated poem after 1689, when he wrote a

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