Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography Born 14 October 1892 in Paddington, London, one of two children of John Cadwaladr Williams, a doctor, and Catherine (née Thomas) his wife. (The son adopted the hyphenated name of Cecil-Williams by deed-poll in 1935). The family came from Uwch Aled. He was educated first in London and, for a year or so, in the village school at Cerrigydrudion. Returning to London he attended the City of London
CEMLYN-JONES, Sir ELIAS WYNNE (1888 - 1966), public figure Born 16 May 1888 in Gwredog, Amlwch, Anglesey, son of John Cemlyn Jones, a solicitor from Caerphilly, and Gaynor Hannah, daughter of John Elias Jones, from Penmaen-mawr (and through his wife, of Gwredog, Amlwch), a prominent figure in the public life of Anglesey and an ardent Liberal. His father died when he was a child and he was educated privately: at Mostyn School, Parkgate, Cheshire, at
CHALONER, THOMAS (d. 1598), Ulster King of Arms Some particulars of this painter, poet, antiquary, and actor are given by W. J. Hemp in ' Two Welsh Heraldic Pedigrees, with notes on Thomas Chaloner, Ulster King of Arms,' in Y Cymm., xl. He was the fourth son of Robert Chaloner of Denbigh by his wife Dowce, daughter of Richard Mathew of Lleweni Green, Denbighshire. As Hemp points out, several members of the family were students of heraldry and
CHAMBERS, JOHN GRAHAM (1843 - 1883), athlete - see CHAMBERS, WILLIAM
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure By the will of Sir John Stepney, dated 9 August 1802 (recited in ' An Act to enable William Chambers…to grant leases of certain estates,' 1840, copy in Cardiff Public Library), his property, in twenty-four parishes, was devised not to his brother, Thomas (who succeeded to the baronetcy on Sir John Stepney's death, 3 October 1811), nor to the heirs of his two sisters, but to six legatees
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff … (1934). On 8 August 1900 he married Mary Maria, daughter of his first pastor, John Morgan (died 8 September 1922 aged 82) and Margaret his wife (died 14 April 1924, aged 74), and they had one son, Sidney Morgan Chance, South Park, Gerrards Cross, who was alive when his parents celebrated their golden wedding but died before them. Thomas Williams Chance died 22 December 1954 after an operation in the
CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer of Cardiff, 1939; Historic Melingriffith, 1940; The Government of Wales, 1943; Wake up, Wales, a Survey of Home Rule Activities, 1943; Cardiff's Civic Centre, a Historical Guide, 1946. He married Alice, daughter of Caleb Thomas, Ystalyfera, and they had one son. Chapell died 26 August 1949 at Cardiff.
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister Son of Thomas Rice Charles and Maria his wife, and grandson of Thomas Charles; born at Bala 23 July 1812. He was educated at Bala and Chirk, and after reading with the rector of Llanycil matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, in May 1831, proceeding to the degree of B.A. in 1835. He was associated with his brother-in-law, Lewis Edwards, in the inception in 1837 of the preparatory school which
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer Born 11 October 1762 at Pant-dwfn, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees and Jael Charles and brother of Thomas Charles. He was apprenticed to a flax-dresser and rope-maker at Carmarthen, and spent some time in Bristol learning his craft. He learned by heart Edward Young's Night Thoughts while still a mere boy and was converted through reading the sermons of Ralph Erskine
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 attacked it (though without specifically naming it) in the Cylchgrawn edited by Morgan John Rhys, and in 1797 he published a pamphlet, Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry, against it. Several of his friends, in London and in Wales, disapproved of this work, and in 1806 there appeared Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid, by Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol, under the pseudonym Arvonius. Charles was a lively and bitter
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer Geoff Charles was born on 28 January 1909 in Brymbo near Wrexham. His father John Charles (1870-1941) served as Secretary of the Brymbo Water Company from 1912-1941. His mother Jane Elizabeth (née Read) (1874-1968) was a Queen's Nurse. He grew up with younger brother Hugh and sister Margaret in the Old Vicarage, a house near the railway, a subject for which he soon developed a life-long

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