Welsh Journals

Biographical Notes THE FOLLOWING brief notes are intended merely to put individuals who figure regularly or prominently in the Diaries into a family context and to elucidate events and activities described by Bird. They are not intended to be compre- hensive biographies, for which the reader is referred to entries in the Dictionary of National Biography (DNB), Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB), Com- plete Peerage (CP), History of Parliament (Hist. Pari.), and other works. The places mentioned are in Glamorgan unless otherwise stated. Ashurst, William Henry (1725-1807), Judge of the King's Bench. His charge to the Grand Jury of Middlesex, 10 Nov. 1792, was delivered soon after the September massacres in France. In it he attacked the doctrines of the French Revolutionaries and their supporters, praised the English system of govern- ment and counselled support of that system. The Charge was printed by the Society for Preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. DNB. Aubrey, Richard (1744-1808), of Ash Hall. The youngest son of Sir Thomas Aubrey, 5th baronet, of Llantrithyd, he was lieutenant-colonel of the Glamor- gan Militia (cavalry) and a deputy-lieutenant of the county. Through his wife, Frances Digby, he was related to Herbert Mackworth of Gnoll (q.v.). His eldest brother, Sir John Aubrey M.P. (1739-1826), was a lawyer, a Radical and member of the notorious Hellfire Club. Richard Aubrey was buried at Llantrithyd. Aubrey family of Ynyscedwyn, Breconshire. Richard Gough of Ynyscedwyn, a descendant of the Awbrey alias Aubrey family, was a captain in the Glamor- gan Militia in 1793. The son of William Gough of Ynyscedwyn, he assumed the additional surname of Aubrey and in 1797, under that name, was commis- sioned a brevet major in the 'Royal Glamorganshire Battalion of Militia'. He was a deputy-lieutenant of Glamorgan, and sheriff of Breconshire in 1807. Both his uncle, the Rev. James Gough Aubrey (who married Eleanor Williams of Aberpergwm), and his brother, the Rev. Fleming Gough (Aubrey), served as rector of Ystradgynlais, Breconshire. Bacon, Anthony (d. 1827), of Cyfarthfa and Aberaman. The eldest son of Anthony Bacon (d. 1786), the founder of the Cyfarthfa, Plymouth and Hir- waun ironworks. He relinquished Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay (q.v.), and his share in the Hirwaun Works to his brother Thomas. In 1794 he was living at Llandaff Court, and in 1806 purchased the Aberaman estate from the Mathew family. He died at Aberaman and was buried at Speen, Berkshire. His brother Thomas disposed of the Plymouth Works to Richard Hill (q.v.). DWB. Bevan family of Neath. Several generations of this family practised as doc- tors and surgeons in Neath, including John Bevan, the son of Morgan Bevan