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ABEL, JOHN ( 1770 - 1819 ), Welsh Independent minister

ABEL, SION , an 18th cent. Montgomeryshire ballad-writer ,

ABLETT, NOAH ( 1883 - 1935 ), miner and Trade Union leader

ABRAHAM (d. 1080 ), bishop of S. Davids (‘euream’ in Pen. MS. 20)

ABRAHAM (d. 1232 ), bishop of S. Asaph ,

ABRAHAM ( ABRAM ), RICHARD (‘ Dic y Dawns fl. 1673-1700 ), poet , probably of Anglesey .

ABRAHAM, WILLIAM ( Mabon 1842 - 1922 ), M.P. and first president of the South Wales Miners’ Federation

ADAM (d. 1181 ), bishop of S. Asaph .

ADAM OF USK ( 1352? - 1430 ), in contemporary notices ‘ Adam Usk ,’ lawyer ,

ADAMS, DAVID ( 1845 - 1923 ), Congregationalist divine

ADAMS, ROGER (d. 1741 ), bookseller and printer at Chester .

ADAMS, WILLIAM ( 1813 - 1886 ), mining expert

ADDA FRAS ( 1240? - 1320? ), poet and writer of prophecies .

AELHAEARN ( 7th cent. ), patron saint ,

AFAN ( early 6th cent. ), patron saint ,

AIDAN , a 6th cent. saint ,

ALBAN DAVIES, DAVID ( 1873 - 1951 ), business man and philanthropist

ALBAN DAVIES, JENKIN ( 1901 - 1968 ), business man and philanthropist

ALBAN,Sir FREDERICK JOHN ( 1882 - 1965 ), chartered accountant and administrator

ALEN, RHISIART ap RHISIART , author of ‘Carol ymddiddan ag un marw ynghylch Purdan’ ,

ALICE verch Griffith ap Ieuan ap Llywelyn Fychan ( fl. 1540-1570 ), a poetess ,

ALLEN, EVAN OWEN ( 1805 - 1852 ), writer

ALLEN, JAMES ( 1802 - 1897 ), dean of S. Davids and antiquary

ALLEN, JOHN ROMILLY ( 1847 - 1907 ), archaeologist

ALLEN, ROBERT ( 1847 - 1927 ), Baptist minister

ALLGOOD .

ALMER (or ALMOR ) , family of Almer and Pant Iocyn, Denbs.

AMBROSE, WILLIAM ( Emrys 1813 - 1873 ). Independent minister, poet, and littérateur

AMBROSE, WILLIAM ROBERT ( 1832 - 1878 ), Baptist minister and antiquary

AMBROSIUS AURELIANUS ( c. 475) , British leader .

ANARAWD ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1143 ), prince

ANARAWD ap RHODRI (d. 916 ), prince

ANDREWS, JOSHUA ( 1708? - 1793 ), Baptist minister .

ANEIRIN , a famous poet who flourished in the second half of the 6th cent.

ANGHARAD (d. 1162 ),

ANIAN (d. 1306? ), bishop of Bangor ,

ANIAN I (d. 1266 ), bishop of S. Asaph ,

ANIAN II (d. 1293 ), bishop of S. Asaph

ANTHONY, DAVID BRYNMOR ( 1886 - 1966 ), school teacher and academic administrator

ANTHONY, GRIFFITH ( 1846 - 1897 ), musician

ANTHONY, HENRY MARK ( 1817 - 1886 ), landscape painter

ANWYL family, of Park , Llanfrothen, Mer.

ANWYL, EDWARD ( 1786 - 1857 ), Wesleyan minister

ANWYL,Sir EDWARD ( 1866 - 1914 ), Celtic scholar

ANWYL, JOHN BODVAN (‘ Bodfan ’ 1875 - 1949 ), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author

ANWYL, LEWIS ( 1705? - 1776 ), cleric and author

ANWYL, THOMAS ( fl. late 16th or early 17th cent. ), poet .

APPERLEY, CHARLES JAMES ( 1779 - 1843 ), writer on sport , known as ‘ Nimrod

ARMSTRONG-JONES,Sir ROBERT ( 1857 - 1943 ), physician and alienist

ARNOLD family, of Llanthony and Llanvihangel Crucorney, Mon.

ARTHUR ( early 6th cent.? ), one of the leaders of the Britons against their enemies

ASAPH ( c. 600 ), reputed founder of the see of S. Asaph ,

ASHBY, ARTHUR WILFRED ( 1886 - 1953 ), agricultural economist

ASHTON, CHARLES ( 1848 - 1899 ), Welsh bibliographer and literary historian

ASHTON, JOHN ( 1830 - 1896 ), musician

ASSER (d. 909 ), bishop and scholar ,

ATKIN, JAMES RICHARD , baron Atkin , life peer ( 1867 - 1944 ), judge

AUBREY, THOMAS ( 1808 - 1867 ), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister ,

AUBREY, WILLIAM ( c. 1529 - 1595 ), civil lawyer ,

AUBREY, WILLIAM ( 1759 - 1827 ), engineer ,

AUGUSTUS, WILLIAM (‘ Wil Awst ’), a prescientific weather forecaster and translator

AURELIUS CANINUS ( fl. 540 ) is the second of the five contemporary British princes

AWBERY, STANLEY STEPHEN ( 1888 - 1969 ), politician, local historian and author