Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 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
CLARK family, printers and publishers ; History of Monmouthshire, 1869; Usk Past and Present, 1893; etc. - for further details see Ifano Jones, History of Printing and Printers in Wales and Monmouthshire, and the 'Monmouthshire Bibliography' of William Haines (in manuscript in NLW). The newspaper begun in 1855 continued, with change of name, to appear until 1907. J. H. Clark married, 15 March 1838, Sophia (died 1901), eldest daughter of
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician demand not only at concerts and eisteddfodau but also at the Gregynog Festival in the 1930s. He accompanied many of Wales's best known singers. In 1926 he accompanied Dora Herbert Jones and Owen Bryngwyn on some of the earliest electrical recordings made by HMV, and later played for artists such as the bass Richard Rees. He accompanied a performance of Brahms' Requiem at the National Eisteddfod in
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector speak Italian and once in India she began learning Persian (the language of the princely courts) and 'Hindustani', becoming adept enough in the former to attempt a translation of lines by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez or Hafiz (his work was first translated into English by William Jones in 1771). Such preparations reveal her as someone with a desire to learn about rather than simply
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, local militia for the French war (1795). His flair for business appears in his work from 1792 as an agricultural improver - much praised by Gwallter Mechain (Walter Davies) and recognized by the gold medal of the Society of Arts (1807) - on his farm of Eriviat and the Bathafarn estate, and also in his association with David Mason (Ystrad Uchaf), Rev. J. Lloyd Jones (Plas Madoc), and his own nephew and
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, Lleweni and Combermere abbey (see Cotton, Sir Stapleton). Penelope, daughter and co-heiress of Penelope, the eldest daughter, and Ellis Yonge of Acton and Bryn Iorcyn, married William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph. It may be of further interest to note that from Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Conway by his first wife, who married Sir Thomas Longueville, bart., was descended Harry Longueville Jones
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist Hafina Clwyd was born on 1st July 1936 in Gwyddelwern, Meirionethshire, the eldest of four children of Alun Jones (1907-1980), a farmer, and his wife Morfydd (née Jones, 1910-1971). She was brought up on Cefnmaenllwyd farm, and attended primary school at Gwyddelwern and Bala Girls' Grammar School. The family moved to Rhydonnen near Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, in 1953, and Hafina went to Brynhyfryd
COSLET, EDWARD (1750 - 1828), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Machen, Monmouthshire, in 1750. He was converted under the ministry of William Edwards (1719 - 1789), joined the church in Groeswen in 1769, and began to preach. He moved to Castleton, Monmouth, about 1776, where he came into touch with Blanche Evans of S. Mellons, who brought him to the notice of David Jones of Llan-gan and the Methodist society established in that place. He founded
COSLETT, COSLETT (Carnelian; 1834 - 1910), collier and poet 'Clic y Bont' - 'the Pont(ypridd) clique' - as were also such men as Brynfab, Dewi Wyn o Essyllt, and Glanffrwd, are interesting examples of the poets, of no great individual distinction, who formed bardic schools or circles in the industrial towns of South Wales during the 19th century.
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales imprisoned by him, at Swansea, and another seeking to be reconciled to him (Lewis and Jones, Mynegai). He was twice married - first to Alice, daughter of Philip Mansel of Oxwich castle, and second to Katherine Gordon, widow of Perkin Warbeck. By his first wife he had a daughter, Margaret, who married Richard Herbert of Ewyas, Herefordshire, and became the mother of William Herbert, who was created earl of

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