Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Alwyn Charles was born at Colombia Row, Llanelli, 18 December 1924, the son of David John Charles and his wife. He received his elementary education at St. Paul and Lakefield, Llanelli, prior to entering Woodend Secretarial College. From that college he went to serve as a clerk at the solicitors' office of Jennings and Williams. He began to preach at Capel Als, Llanelli, where the Reverend D. J
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric friends there were all of the Evangelical school. Ordained in 1778, he held various curacies in Somerset till 1783. But during a Long Vacation visit to his friend Simon Lloyd he had fallen in love with Sally Jones, daughter of a Bala shopkeeper (her mother had in the meantime married Thomas Foulkes), and married her 20 August 1783. As she would not leave Bala and her business [which in fact became
CHARLES, THOMAS (1811 - 1873), physician - see CHARLES, DAVID, III
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer deliberately fouled anyone on the football pitch. Throughout his career no referee ever had cause to caution him, let alone send him off. He had deep respect for the rules of the game and for his fellow players, and he too was respected for his courtesy and good nature. According to the former referee Clive Thomas: 'If you had 22 players like John, there would be no need for referees - only time-keepers
CHERLETON family JOHN CHERLETON (1268 - 1353) Son of Robert, lord of Cherleton in Wrockwardine, Salop. In 1309 he married Hawise Gadarn ('the Hardy'), sister and heir of Gruffydd ab Owain (died 1309 - see under Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn), lord of Powys; thus the Cherletons were lords of this part of Wales in the 14th and early 15th century. The occupation of Powys by John Cherleton was opposed by Gruffydd ap
CHURCHEY, WALTER (1747 - 1805), attorney and versifier Born at Brecon 7 November 1747, of a Somerset family domiciled at Brecon since the early 17th century, and prominent in that town. He was one of the earliest pillars of (English) Wesleyan Methodism at Brecon, became a personal friend of John Wesley and corresponded with him [and though his claim to have been the first to suggest to Wesley the publication of the Arminian Magazine has been
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary ., expanding it in 1846), and for a time in India. Later, he became inspector under the short-lived General Board of Health (his reports on various towns included some in South Wales), and afterwards one of the three commissioners. In 1852 he accepted the position of trustee of the will of Sir Josiah John Guest, and from then until 1897 he was the effective controller of the famous Dowlais iron-works. The
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer , which had been laid out in the grounds of his family home at Piercefield Park in the 1920s. A long-distance steeplechase is held there annually in his memory. John Charles Clay died at St. Hilary on 11 August 1973.
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, women's education and first principal of Newnham, both of whom resided for a time at Min-y-don (now destroyed). On the brief connection with Hafodunos, see under John Lloyd (1749 - 1815).
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp 'Sir' which prefaces his Christian name in some accounts. He entered the service of Sir Thomas Gresham, London; in 1552 he is settled at Antwerp as 'factor' for Gresham, to whom (and to William Phayre) he wrote frequently; the original letters are in the P.R.O. - see e.g. Cal. S.P. For., 1566-68. It is said that it was he who suggested to Gresham the advisability of building the 'Exchange' in London
COBB, JOSEPH RICHARD (1821 - 1897), antiquary ) at Brecon (see his Short Account of S. John the Evangelist … at Brecon, 1874), and of Manorbier castle; and he bought and thoroughly restored the castle of Caldicot, near Chepstow. He died 6 December 1897, at Brecon, and is commemorated by a memorial in Brecon cathedral.
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer Llandaff Court 15 February 1867. Coffin was a man of advanced views in theology. His father was the sole surviving trustee of the 'Old Meeting' at Bridgend when (soon after 1806) dissensions arose there; and Coffin was in this way enabled in 1816 to secure the election of John James (1779 - 1864) as pastor - the Old Meeting thus becoming Unitarian. At Dinas, too, Coffin's influence afforded Unitarianism

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