Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BULMER, JOHN (1784 - 1857), Independent minister
BULMER-THOMAS, IVOR (1905 - 1993), Labour, later Conservative, politician and writer , initially with the Royal Fusiliers, 1939-40, and then attaining the rank of Captain in the Royal Norfolk Regiment in 1941, serving until the end of hostilities. He stood as the Labour candidate against Sir John Simon (the leader of the National Liberal group of MPs known as Simonites) in the Spen Valley constituency of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the general election of 1935, narrowly missing election
BUTE family (marquesses of Bute, Cardiff Castle, etc.), . Viscount Windsor sold some of the family's Monmouthshire lordships, but the Glamorgan estates descended to his granddaughter, CHARLOTTE JANE, co-heiress of the 2nd viscount. She married, 1766, JOHN, LORD MOUNTSTUART (1744 - 1814), son and heir of the 3rd earl of Bute, who was prime minister from 1762 to 1763. In 1776 lord Mountstuart was created baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle, and, in 1796, viscount
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer daughter Elizabeth married Col. John Poyer, and his daughter Ann married Rowland Laugharne. The places of his death and burial are not known.
CADWALADER, JOHN (fl. second half of 18th century), ballad and interlude writer - see KADWALADR, SION
CADWALADR, Sir RHYS (fl. 1666-1690), cleric and poet poem on the death of Thomas Jones, astronomer, of Corwen. He himself died in the following year, 1690 (Llanstephan MS 15 (34)). Much of his work is extant; it includes twenty-four englynion, translations from Horace and Seneca, and a poem on the death of John Hookes of Conway, ascribed to the poet, but said to have been written on behalf of William Fychan.
CADWALADR, ELLIS (fl. 1707-40), poet names, that he had received a good education. There are many of his poems in manuscript: NLW MS 4971C: Llyfr John Beans contains about twenty. He won in the chair competition at an eisteddfod held at Bala on Whit-Monday, 1738.
CADWGAN (d. 1241), bishop of Bangor He succeeded after the death of Robert in 1212. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth was at this time dominant in North Wales, and it was, no doubt, through his influence that Cadwgan obtained the see. King John, moreover, who, in the early months of 1215, was angling for the support of the Welsh against the barons, put no obstacles in his way. On 13 March the chapter was allowed to elect the abbot of Whitland
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician (1973). Callaghan was one of the few politicians who did not expect Labour to win the 1970 general election. He was proved right and the Conservatives held power for the next four years. Callaghan won easily in Cardiff South East and had an excellent agent in John Edward Brooks throughout the 1970s. He made him a member of the House of Lords in 1979 as Baron Brooks of Tremorfa. During the Heath
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat 'involuntary' character saved his Glamorgan estates - swollen since 1537 by his marriage to the widow of Sir John Raglan - for his son THOMAS CARNE, who, although a recusant (as were many of the family till well on in the next century), was twice M.P. and thrice sheriff for his county.
CARRINGTON, THOMAS (Pencerdd Gwynfryn; 1881 - 1961), musician and printer Born at Gwynfryn, Bwlch-gwyn, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, 24 November 1881, the son of John Carrington (a descendant of one of the families that migrated from Cornwall to work in the Denbighshire lead mines) and Winifred (née Roberts), a native of Bryneglwys. He spent his early years at Gwynfryn and was educated at Bwlch-gwyn school. After leaving school he was apprenticed as a printer at Hughes
CARTER family Kinmel, to William Price of Rhiwlas, Meironnydd, and in 1647 Elizabeth married John Carter. Sir JOHN CARTER (died 1676), colonel in the Parliamentary army Military, was born at Dinton, Buckinghamshire, a village rich in associations with the Parliamentary cause. He was the eldest son of a Thomas Carter; a younger son, William, became a wealthy London merchant. Tradition avers that John started life as a

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