Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary
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
COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician . He famously succeeded in persuading the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Neath in 1968 to hear at first-hand complaints about the closure of two local coal mines. He was a PPS, 1964-70 (including serving as PPS to George Thomas when he was the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70, and thus in effect minister of state for Wales; he also served under Eirene White and Cledwyn Hughes), an
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, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
COOK, ARTHUR JAMES (1883 - 1931), miner and trade union leader Born at Wookey, Somerset, 22 November 1883, son of Thomas Cook, a serving soldier. After leaving the elementary school he worked as a farm labourer. At 17 he was preaching with the Baptists; at 19 he went to work to the Lewis Merthyr Colliery, Trehafod, and developed extreme socialist views which led to his severing his relations with his religious denomination. He attended courses at the Labour
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary coalfield, and with ' the war of the railways,' when the Bute estates were managed by that dominating personality, William Thomas Lewis, the 1st lord Merthyr. Corbett's chief recreations were painting and gardening, but after 1890 he devoted much of his leisure to historical studies, chiefly on the lordship of Glamorgan (collected under the title Glamorgan and published, with a memoir, in 1925); those
CORY family , aged 10, RICHARD, aged 8, and THOMAS, aged 5, to Cardiff. Richard Cory and his two eldest sons, JOHN and RICHARD, eagerly seized the advantages now offered by the opening up of collieries and the improved methods of transport and of export in the forties in order to extend their business. They moved to the docks district about 1842 and added a ship-broking business to that of the chandler and
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

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