Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat dispositions of Rome and Spain and warnings against France. The pope refused passports for his return, and conferred on him the wardenship of the English Hospital, to which he appears to have been previously nominated by Mary, but which he later resigned to Goldwell. On his death in 1561 his friends Geoffrey (or Griffith) Vaughan and Thomas Freeman erected a monument to his memory at the church of SS. Andrew
CARNES, EDWARD (1772? - 1828), bookseller and printer It is possible that he started printing in June 1796; he may have been a bookseller before that. One of the best examples of his work is his edition, 1823, of David Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry. His printing office was in Whitford Street in 1828; William Carnes, who was a bookbinder in Well Street at the same time, may have been his brother. Edward Carnes died 25 May 1828, of typhus fever, aged 58.
CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer and Son, Wrexham. He married Mildred Mary Jones, Minera, in 1905 and went to live in Coed-poeth where he followed his trade as a printer and as a music publisher. From his early childhood it was obvious that he had a special talent as a musician. At the age of nine he had been appointed organist at the Wesleyan Methodist church at Gwynfryn and he held that office for about fifteen years. He studied
CARTER family Kinmel, . 7). Pyrs was followed (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 259) by a son, David, a grandson, PYRS (sheriff of Denbighshire, 1578), and a great-grandson, DAVID, sheriff of Denbighshire, 1596, whose will was proved in 1616. This David left two infant co-heiresses, Mary and ELIZABETH (she is called by Pennant ' Catherine ', and in some books ' Dorothy ' - which was her mother's name). In 1641 Mary was married
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS (1920 - 2004), Labour politician He was born on 17 November 1920, the son of Tom Jones of Kenfig Hill, Bridgend, a former miner who had become an insurance agent. He was educated at Kenfig Hill council school, Bridgend County School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he graduated with a BA hons. degree in economics and a diploma in education. While at university he became chairman of the Student Finance
CATHERALL, JONATHAN (1761 - 1833), industrialist and philanthropist married Catherine Jones, daughter of the vicar of Llannor and Denïo, Caernarfonshire. Accustomed to attend Hawarden church, about the year 1785 he joined the Independents and was closely associated with their cause throughout his life. He was deeply concerned for the moral and spiritual welfare of the increasing population of his native district, and took a prominent part in establishing the Independent
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure Shrewsbury School and in London. He became a barrister. In 1910-11 he and his aunt, his mother's sister, went on a journey round the world, the old 'grand tour', through the United States, Canada, Japan, Korea, China, etc. From 1912-14 he was private secretary to Sir Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith in the Home Office, and between 1914-18 he served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was an unsuccessful Liberal
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure Jones, fl. 1811-58, ' Shoni Sgubor Fawr.') He gave important evidence to the education commissioners (1847). He became, in 1850, the first chairman of the Llanelly Board of Health, which replaced the corrupt oligarchy of burgesses which administered the town's estates. After his father's death, the Stepney estates reverted to the heirs of Sir John Stepney's sisters, although only after a prolonged law
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister Aberystwyth in October 1872. Upon the appointment of his nephew T. C. Edwards as principal he resigned his post and later migrated to Aberdovey, where he died on 13 December 1878. In 1869 he was moderator of the general assembly of his connexion. He married (1), 1839, Kate Roberts, Holyhead, who died c. 1844; (2), 1846, Mary, daughter of Hugh Jones of Llanidloes and widow of Benjamin Watkins, by whom he had
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer elected member of the Gwyneddigion Society; he was its secretary in 1796 and its official 'bard' in 1800 and 1810. As a poet, he is of little importance; but he was a copyist of manuscripts for Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones) in 1803-4, and further made a collection of letters (today most of them either at the British Museum or at Cardiff Free Library) which are of the utmost value to researchers on the
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer after. During the seven last years of his life, however, he was forced on account of heart disease to curtail his travelling, and it was arranged for him during that period to serve on a regular basis in the pulpit of the church at Bethesda, Bethesda. Principal R. Tudur Jones stated that Alwyn Charles possessed 'a clear and bright mind and since the light of the Bible was as a lamp to his feet, he
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric appointed by the Association. He had early been shocked by the prevalent ignorance of the Scriptures among his people. The circulating schools of Griffith Jones and Bridget Bevan had by that time come to an end, and Charles resolved to provide a substitute. He trained group after group of travelling teachers, who remained for six or nine months at a time in a locality, teaching reading and the principles

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