Welsh Biography

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Dictionary of Welsh Biography containing over 5,000 biographies of prominent Welsh people. Trydar Cymraeg:

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  1. 11 hours ago

    The actress Sarah Siddons died in 1831

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  2. 21 hours ago

    View the complete Beunans Meriasek manuscript on digital gallery

    7 June: 6thC St.Meriasek, prob , patron Camborne known thro Beunans Meriasek play (NLW)
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    If you'd like to learn more about the Lord Davies of Llandinam Papers , take a look at our catalogue . The unpublished biography, attributed to Sir Charles Tennyson, can also be viewed on our website

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  4. Jun 6

    Donald Watts Davies, pioneer of digital computing and packet switching for data communication, was born at , Valley 1924

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    Jun 6

    Notes & drawings for lectures, research papers relating to the distribution of blood groups in Wales and the UK, and an account of life in the Channel Islands during WWII, can all be found among the H. J. Fleure papers

    Herbert John Fleure, geographer who began an anthropological study of the Welsh people, was born in 1877
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    Jun 6

    Happy Birthday to the founding father of - Professor Herbert John Fleure, born 1877

    Seated portrait of Professor Herbert John Fleure
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  7. Jun 5

    Herbert John Fleure, geographer who began an anthropological study of the Welsh people, was born in 1877

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    See the archive of first female

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    May 11

    Lord Davies' extensive archive is held

    David Davies, , who campaigned for world peace was born 1880
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    May 30

    There are 15 volumes of Megan Lloyd George's papers

    Megan Lloyd George was elected the Liberal Member of Parliament for Anglesey, the first woman elected to represent Wales in Parliament, 1929
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  11. Jun 5

    Learn more about Gordon Macdonald in

    New post on blog today about Lord MacDonald of Gwaenysgor and his role in the union of and
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  12. Jun 5

    More on David Stephen Davies in

    David Stephen Davies (1841-98) was a native of Plas-marl, near Swansea, who emigrated to the US in 1857. He soon began to preach and was ordained in 1862, and he eventually took charge of one of New York's chapels. Read more about his life:
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    Jun 5

    Dyddgoviant William Owen Pughe – this diary for the period 1811-1835 (NLW MS 13248i-iiB) is among the manuscripts of the lexicographer and antiquarian at . The entries shown were written 200 years ago in June 1818

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  14. Jun 4

    Moelona, teacher and novelist died at New Quay 1953

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    To learn more about William Owen Pughe, lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet, read the article about him in

    William Owen Pughe (7 August 1759 - 4 June 1835) was a Welsh antiquarian and grammarian best known for his Welsh and English Dictionary. Here is a copy of his Welsh translation of 'A landowner's advice to his tenants', by Thomas Johnes, 1800:
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    Jun 3

    d. 1960 Margaret Lindsay Williams, a artist, born , . She painted European royalty + American presidents. Left: Williams at work Jan. 1923. Rt: Official White House portrait of Warren G. Harding. Images:

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  17. Jun 3

    Thomas Peter Ellis, judge and authority on Punjab customary law and medieval Welsh law was born at 1873

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  18. Jun 2

    Morgan Llwyd one of Wales' greatest 17th century writers died 1659

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    Jun 2

    Did you know, Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the first woman to qualify as a doctor from Cardiff University College at the turn of the century? She became known as Mary 'Eppynt' Phillips taking the name of the mountain near where she was born in Merthyr Cynog

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  20. Jun 2

    Rhys ap Maredudd, lord of in Ystrad Tywi was executed at 1292

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