Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer feelings. His writings led readers to visualise, understand and respect the natural world in a way that had incalculable benefits for the study of natural history and for conservation. His topographical and historical writings about Wales encouraged a similar sympathy and understanding. His exemplar in writing as well as in life was Henry David Thoreau, about whom he wrote his first book, Thoreau (1954
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric dissemination of Lutheran literature (L. & P., iv, 4396). During these years he was active in smuggling contraband literature into England. He was arrested by Sir Thomas More for this activity in 1531 and, under pressure, informed on some of his confederates. He escaped early in December 1531 and fled again to Antwerp. Returning to London after More's death he entered the service of Sir Henry Norris, who was
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, The Conways were of English origin, descended from Sir William Coniers, ' Knight of War ', high constable of England under William the Conqueror. Sir HENRY CONWAY, son of Sir Hugh Conway, who married Ellen (or Angharad), daughter of Sir Hugh Crevecoer, lord of Prestatyn, was the first known to have settled in Wales, and his son, Richard, succeeded as lord of Prestatyn. In contrast to his
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium national eisteddfod of 1918 and in the same year she was appointed to a committee to explore the possibilities of a federal government for Wales. In addition to all this she was the mother of four children, Christopher, Daphne, Alexander and Henry. Daphne, however, lived for only eighteen months, and this shattering blow led her into spiritualism. This posed no problems as another sister-in-law, Eveleen
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal relating to the family estates in the West Indies. James Henry Cotton, dean of Bangor, was the field-marshal's first cousin, their fathers being brothers.
CRADOCK, RICHARD (fl. 1660-90), Nonconformist preacher, of the Independent persuasion , presumably, being son or brother to Richard. He had been teaching elder in the Cilfwnwr congregation (later Tirdoncyn) since March 1666; this is supported by the report of the Glamorgan churches sent by Henry Maurice to Broadmead in 1675, and by the entry in the Tirdoncyn register recording Cradock's death on 6 July 1690.
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa Caversham Park mansion. During his period the works grew immensely, and enormous quantities of iron were manufactured and great quantities of coal raised to feed the furnaces. His attitude during the celebrated riots at Merthyr tended to exasperate and defy the men. He left Treforest iron-works to his son FRANCIS, the Forest of Dean to HENRY, and the Cyfarthfa works to his youngest son, Robert Thompson
CYNAN ab OWAIN (d. 1174), prince he was imprisoned by his father. He took an active part in the resistance to Henry II in 1157, sharing with his brother David the ambush laid in the woods of Hawarden which nearly led to the collapse of the royal expedition. Less creditable was his part in the attempt of five earls in 1159 to capture Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197). On the death of his father in 1170 he probably held Eifionydd
DAFYDD ab OWAIN GWYNEDD (d. 1203), king of Gwynedd Son of Owain Gwynedd and Christina, daughter of Gronw ab Owain ab Edwin. Father and mother being first cousins, their union was not recognized by the church, and its issue was deemed illegitimate. Dafydd is first heard of in 1157, when he took an active part in the ambush of Hawarden Woods, which was all but fatal to Henry II. In 1165 he was stationed in Dyffryn Clwyd and opened the conflict of
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd all appearances under the tutelage of his mother - with a small share of power as lord of Cymydmaen in the far west of Gwynedd. The first known references to David, however, go back to 1241 when he and a younger brother, Rhodri, became hostages to Henry III under the terms of a royal agreement with Senena, relating to her husband and eldest son. David's political career may be said to have begun
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN (d. 1246), prince lose anything he could retain, Dafydd now resorted to delaying tactics, until, in the summer of 1241, Henry could wait no longer and led an expedition into North Wales. His progress was unexpectedly easy; an abnormal drought removed many of the usual obstacles, and the prince was forced to agree, at Gwern Eigron, near S. Asaph, on 29 August, to a peace which required him to resign all claim to the

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