Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLYDOG (fl. 500?), saint and martyr the time of king Ithel ap Morgan (c. 750) was acquired by the see of Llandaff. No other church named after this saint is recorded. His festival was observed on 3 November
COBB, JOSEPH RICHARD (1821 - 1897), antiquary Born 25 April 1821, at Broughton castle, Oxfordshire. By profession he was a lawyer, and also a promoter of railways; it was he, e.g., who got the ' Brecon and Merthyr Railway ' constructed. His chief interest, however, was in antiquities, and he was a prominent member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. He played a leading part in the restoration of the priory church (now the cathedral
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer other lands at Dinas, and sank pits there in 1815 and 1832 - he worked 'Rhondda no. 1' and 'Rhondda no. 3' seams. Though a director of the Taff Vale Railway in 1836, he opposed its extension up the Rhondda valley, having no opinion of the future prospects of that valley and believing that its output could be adequately handled by tram and canal. From 1852 to 1857 he was M.P. for Cardiff. He died at
Congo House / African Training Institute family, students , and Nkanza, who succumbed to heart failure on 3 April 1892.
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric , he was deprived of his registrarship and his livings. In the summer of 1559 Elizabeth appointed him one of the visitors for the western circuit of dioceses, and in November 1559 he became archdeacon of Brecon. Since his successor there was instituted on 3 February 1561, Constantine would seem to have died late in 1560 or early in 1561. He was married and had one daughter, who became the wife of
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, recusant lists of the period along with the Conways of Sychtyn in the parish of Northop, descended from James Conway, one of the sons of John ' Aer Conwy Hen ' by his second wife. This taint, however, had quite disappeared by the time William Conway's son, Sir HENRY CONWAY (1630 - 1669), came into his inheritance. Created a bart. by Charles II, 25 July 1660, he sat for Flintshire in the Pensionary
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer the Neath Guardian. In 1963, Coombes was honoured by the National Union of Mineworkers for 'outstanding contributions to working-class literature'. Mary Coombes died on 3 July 1970, and this loss had a profound impact on her husband, who had cared for his wife in the years prior to her death. B. L. Coombes died on 4 June 1974, at the age of eighty-one. He was buried alongside Mary at the same church
CORY family (died 1909), daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, Newport, Monmouth, by whom he had one daughter, FLORENCE MARGARET CORY, of The Duffryn, S. Nicholas, lady of the manor, and patron of the living (died 11 November 1936), and three sons: (1) HERBERT B. CORY (died 1927); (2) SIR CLIFFORD JOHN CORY, Bart., president of the South Wales Coalowners' Association, 1906 (died 3 February 1941); and (3
COSLETT, COSLETT (Carnelian; 1834 - 1910), collier and poet Born 15 April 1834 at Nantyceisiaid or Nantygleisiaid, near Machen; the family (related to the old Methodist exhorter, Edward Coslet) soon afterwards removed to Bedwas. He took to writing poetry under the tutelage of Caledfryn, who was then minister of Groes-wen, and began competing at eisteddfodau, though he never succeeded at the national eisteddfod. He died 25 April 1910, at Pontypridd, and
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian Propagation of the Gospel in Wales ' (1650), under which he became one of the twenty-five examiners appointed to inquire into the suitability of preachers who sought to minister in Wales. From this time until his death Monmouthshire was the scene of his primary labours, and we find him distributing alms to 'divers religious people' in that county in accordance with the law. On 25 March 1652-3 Cradoc
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa Crawshay (infra). Besides these important works, he held many shares in the Taff Vale Railway, etc. He died at Caversham Park, 4 August 1867. ROBERT THOMPSON CRAWSHAY (1817 - 1879), Business and Industry was born at Cyfarthfa, 3 March 1817, the youngest son [by a second marriage] of the ' Iron King,' and was given Cyfarthfa works and its castle. He carried on the works until the great depression set in
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet the 'Black Book of Carmarthen,' and a little of his work also appears in Peniarth MS 3, which also belongs to the first half of the 13th century. Most of Cynddelw's extant work is found in the Hendregadredd manuscript, a considerable part in the 'Red Book of Hergest,' and all which has survived has been collected together in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales

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