Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor highly successful experiments in co-operative farming which enabled a number of ex- miners to return to the land. These were managed by the Welsh Land Settlement Society, Ltd., of which he was chairman. He also chaired the rural industries committee of the Monmouthshire Rural Community Council. Special areas activities ceased with the outbreak of war in 1939, and 1940-45 Geoffrey Crawshay served as
JONES, ROBERT WILLIAM (Erfyl Fychan; 1899 - 1968), historian, litterateur and eisteddfodwr until 1949 when he was chosen to be Recorder of the Gorsedd. He succeeded Geoffrey Crawshay ('Sieffre o Gyfarthfa') as Herald Bard and was also Recorder and Chief Bard of the Powys Gorsedd for many years. Apart from his contribution to the eisteddfod and Cymdeithas Cerdd Dant, he held evening classes on Welsh history and literature for over thirty years and laboured untiringly to safeguard and advance
BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, CRAWSHAY BAILEY (1789 - 1872), iron-master and M.P. Business and Industry Politics, Government and Political Movements Crawshay Bailey was born in 1789 at Great Wenham, Suffolk, the younger son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay, iron-master, Cyfarthfa. When only about 12 years of age he joined his older brother, Joseph, at Cyfarthfa and to assist at
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa This family had a preponderating influence on the industrial welfare of the people of South Wales, particularly through the heavy industries connected with the manufacture of iron, coal and iron-ore mining, etc. [In the earlier generations, the name appears as 'Crashaw' and 'Crashay'. RICHARD CRAWSHAY (1739 - 1810), Business and Industry Born at Normanton, near Leeds, son of William Crawshay, a
BAILEY family Glanusk Park, Sir JOSEPH BAILEY, (1783 - 1858), baronet, iron-master, landowner, and M.P., was the elder son of Joseph (or John) Bailey of Wakefield, and Susannah, sister of Richard Crawshay (1739 - 1810), the famous iron-master of Cyfarthfa. When quite a young lad, he tramped the whole way from Yorkshire to seek his rich uncle at Merthyr. By hard work and perseverance he soon obtained a good grasp of the iron
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GEOFFREY (1090? - 1155), bishop of St Asaph and chronicler Geoffrey was born between 1090 and 1100; it is probable that his family was Breton and he was brought up in a Norman-Breton environment at Monmouth. His name appears on the charter of Osney Abbey, Oxford, in 1129; between that date and 1151 it appears on six other documents relating to the Oxford neighbourhood. In these he is associated with his friend Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, 1115 - 1151
CADWALADR (d. 664), prince . In the prophecies of Merlin, for instance, as handled by Geoffrey of Monmouth, it is foretold that Cadwaladr will summon Cynan and will make a treaty with Alben (Scotland). That Cadwaladr would return to lead the British race to victory over the Saxons became a commonplace of the cywyddau brud, the darkly phrased poems in which the bards shrouded their incitements to national resistance. Henry VII
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters He is best known from the reference at the end of 'The History of the Kings of Britain' by Geoffrey of Monmouth. Writing about 1135, Geoffrey allows Caradog to use as literary material the story of the kings who ruled in Wales after 689, when he closes his detailed narrative, and similarly gives leave to William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon to recite the history of the English kings. The
WAYNE family, industrialists MATTHEW WAYNE (c. 1780 - 1853), iron-master and coal-owner Business and Industry came into prominence as the furnace manager of Richard Crawshay, ironmaster, Cyfarthfa, Merthyr Tydfil. Richard Crawshay thought so highly of Matthew Wayne that he left him £800 in his will. By means of this large sum (Crawshay died in 1810) he was enabled to become a partner with Joseph Bailey in purchasing the
HALL, BENJAMIN (1778 - 1817), industrialist Born 29 September 1778, elder son of Dr. Benjamin Hall, chancellor of Llandaff. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford (B.A. 1798, M.A. 1801), and called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn, 1801. He married Charlotte, younger daughter of Richard Crawshay of Cyfarthfa, 16 December 1801. His father-in-law made him a partner when he purchased the Rhymney iron works (1803), presented him with the
MADOG ap GWALLTER, friar, a religious poet or early 14th cents.), which contains a Latin text of the 'Dares Phrygius' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum,' we find twenty-six lines of Latin leonine hexameters in which it is stated that Geoffrey had translated Welsh panegyric poems in praise of the ancient valour of the kings of Britain. The author refers to himself as 'Frater Walensis madocus edeirnianensis.' Sir Ifor Williams

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