Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist of Thomas Rice Charles - she died 1833; (2) Ann, daughter of Richard Roberts, Liverpool. He died at his son's house, 10 May 1880, and is buried at Ulverston, Lancashire.
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer history of London Welshmen and of their societies. Better known are his controversial writings. Though he was one of the closest friends of John Jones, Glan-y-gors, he agreed not at all with the latter's political opinions, and in the Geirgrawn, edited by David Davies of Holywell, in 1796 he and others attacked John Jones's Seren tan Gwmmwl. Fiercer still was his hatred of Methodism. In 1793 he had
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer bright lights he moved to Guildford to work for The Surrey Advertiser. It was in Guildford that he was diagnosed with tubercolosis, then still a potentially fatal disease. After recovering in a sanatorium he returned home and started working on the Wrexham Star, a paper established in 1934 to rival the Wrexham Leader, published by Woodall, Minchin & Thomas. The Wrexham Star was a shoestring operation
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
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 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
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary
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, During the 17th century the descendants of Sir Richard Clough lived quietly in Denbighshire, providing the county with successive sheriffs and the county town with successive aldermen. Towards the middle of the 18th century a fresh accession of ambition and business ability enabled them to absorb through marriage or purchase the estates of the Thelwalls of Bathafarn, the Powells of Glan-y-wern

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