National library of wales catalogue

This list contains a selection of general Welsh biographical works from the holdings of the Printed materials collection, and is not intended to be a comprehensive bibliography of Welsh biographical sources. The list is arranged alphabetically according to title. Most of the works may be found on the open shelves of the Printed materials collection Reading Room. Users should however search for records for the majority of these titles on one of the OPAC databases in order to request them, or to search for other relevant works. Users should also search the microfiche catalogue for details of titles not currently found on the OPAC.

• Biographical index of W.W. Price, Aberdâr, (Aberystwyth: NLW, 1981-). 30 volumes

• Y bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940, (Llundain: [Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion], 1953)

• Y bywgraffiadur Cymreig, 1941-1950, (Llundain: [Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion], 1970)

• Y bywgraffiadur Cymreig 1951-1970, (Llundain: Cymdeithas y Cymmrodorion, 1997)

• Catalogue of Welsh biography, (NLW card catalogue of over 40,000 Welsh biographic
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  The creation of a Dictionary of Welsh Biography, claims Emrys Jones in his preface to this volume, ‘has been the Cymmrodorion Society’s greatest gift to Welsh scholarship’. His claim rests on a solid foundation. Over some seventy years the scores of scholars involved in the Welsh National Biography project have assembled, by meticulous research and in some cases from personal knowledge, a veritable treasure trove of information that has been published in three Welsh-language and two English-language volumes by the Cymmrodorion.

  The volumes are a kaleidoscope: authors, ministers, landowners, industrialists, politicians, soldiers, architects, musicians are to be found in its pages. It is fitting that among them are the biographies of four men closely involved with the biography project. Sir John Cecil-Williamsbecame honorary secretary of the Cymmrodorion and was the driving force behind the publishing of the DWB. The historian Sir John Edward Lloyd was, in addition to being Registrar and Professor of History at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, and the author of distin

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  Dictionary of Welsh Biography

  Dictionary of biographies of Welsh men and women

  The Dictionary of Welsh Biography (DWB) (also The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940 and The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941 to 1970) is a biographical dictionary of Welsh people who have made a significant contribution to Welsh life over seventeen centuries.^[1][2] It was first published in 1959, and is now maintained as a free online resource.^[3]

  Origins

  Robert Thomas Jenkins was assistant editor, then joint editor, of Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig and its English-language counterpart, the Dictionary of Welsh Biography, writing over 600 entries.^[4] His joint editor was John Edward Lloyd, but the Dictionary was not published until 1959, twelve years after his death. It is properly known as The Dictionary of Welsh Biography Down to 1940,^[5] and its supplementary volume as The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, 1941 to 1970 (2001). Originally published by the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, recent editions have