Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
BERRY family, industrialists and newspaper proprietors of London newspapers: their owners and controllers (1939) and British newspapers and their controllers (1947). In 1905 he married Mary Agnes, elder daughter of Thomas Corns, and they had four daughters, and four sons who also became directors of parts of the family business. In 1921 he was created baronet, first Baron Camrose of Long Cross, Virginia Water in 1929 and elevated first Viscount Camrose
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, wounded at Wem (17-18 October 1643), and was one of the envoys sent by Thomas Myddelton (later 1st baronet,) to negotiate the surrender of Chirk castle on the collapse of Booth's revolt (24 August 1659). Another brother, FRANCIS BROUGHTON, is said to have fought for Parliament. When the Broughton s died out, the Marchwiel estates passed to AQUILA WYKE, of Llwynegryn, Mold, sheriff of Denbighshire in
BRYDGES, Sir HARFORD JONES (1764 - 1847), diplomatist and author proficient in Oriental languages and was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the court of Persia; this post, that of the first British ambassador to Persia, he held from 1807 (in which year he was created a baronet) until 1811. He published The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript, 1833; An Account of His Majesty's Mission to Persia in the years
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp , Denbighshire; he was Katherine's second husband. Of this marriage there were two daughters, among their descendants being Hester Lynch Salusbury and Sir Robert Salusbury (died 1818), baronet, of Cotton Hall, Denbighshire, and Llan-wern, Monmouthshire. (Clough had, by Catherine Muldert of Antwerp, a son named Richard, from whom were descended the Cloughs described in the article on that family.) About the
COMBERMERE, 6th Baronet - see COTTON, Sir STAPLETON
CORBET, Sir RICHARD (1640 - 1683), baronet and member of parliament One of the CORBET family of Leighton, Montgomery, a son of EDWARD CORBET (who died before his father in 1653), and grandson of Sir EDWARD CORBET, the first baronet. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, 1658. He was Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1677-81 and chairman of the elections committee. He was a close friend of Lord William Russell whose execution in 1683 may have hastened Sir
CORY family Wesleyan Methodist. He died 26 December 1931 and was buried at the Cardiff cemetery. He left two sons, JOHN HERBERT CORY (died 17 May 1939, aged 50), and CHARLES KINGSLEY CORY. Sir JAMES HERBERT CORY (1857 - 1933), 1st baronet Business and IndustryRoyalty and Society, was the younger son of John Cory I, and was born at Padstow 7 February 1857. He was a shipowner, director of thirty-five companies
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal came of the house of Salusbury of Llewenni - pedigree in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 222. Sir John Salusbury (died s.p. 1684) left the estate to his sister HESTER (died 1710), who married Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, of Combermere (died 1713); their son Sir THOMAS COTTON, 2nd baronet (died 1715), married Philadelphia Lynch. They had three children, of whom the youngest, Hester, married John
DILLWYN family -LLEWELYN (1836 - 1927), Member of Parliament Politics, Government and Political Movements was born 26 May 1836, was at Eton and Christ Church, and became an important public figure. He was high sheriff of Glamorgan in 1878, mayor of Swansea in 1891, and (after several unsuccessful attempts to enter Parliament) Conservative M.P. for Swansea, 1895-1900; he was created baronet in 1890. He took great
EDWARDS family Cilhendre, Plas Yolyn, created a baronet 1645 (J. R. Phillips, Civil War, ii, 43; G.E.C., Baronetage, ii, 243). He remained on friendly terms with his fellow-envoy John Jones the regicide; his son, THOMAS EDWARDS, M.D. (died 1668), married Jones's niece, the daughter of Watkin Kyffin, Myddelton's agent at Chirk. Jones is traditionally believed to have stayed at Cilhendre in May 1660, before returning to London to face his
EDWARDS, Sir FRANCIS (1852 - 1927), baronet and M.P. -5, 1900-January 1910, and December 1910-18. He was created a baronet in 1907. An ardent Liberal, he took an active part in the agitation for disestablishment. In 1913 he published a volume of translations from Welsh lyrical poetry entitled Translations from the Welsh. He died 10 May 1927.

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