Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BULKELEY family knighted (about 1534), and his brother ARTHUR (died 1552) became bishop of Bangor. The greatest of these early knights was undoubtedly the third, RICHARD (died 1621), head of the family from 1572 to 1621, friend of queen Elizabeth and bitter antagonist to the earl of Leicester's schemes in Wales. For a generation after his death, the affairs of Baron Hill went under a cloud; the alleged poisoning of the
CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician secretary of the constituency Labour Party, Bill Headon. Callaghan won the nomination against George Thomas by a single vote - because he wore his navy uniform for the interview according to Thomas. Cardiff South had been a Conservative seat since 1918, except a brief period when Arthur Henderson won it for Labour in 1929-31, but in the 1945 election James Callaghan (as he was now known) took the seat
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector Lady Henrietta Clive (née Herbert) was the daughter of Henry Arthur Herbert (Herbert), first earl of Powis (second creation) and his wife Barbara Herbert (née Herbert, 1735-1786). Henrietta was born on 3 September 1758 at her father's principal residence Oakley Park, at Bromfield, near Ludlow in Shropshire. The only sibling who reached maturity was her elder brother George Edward Henry Arthur
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, on Clough's inherited fortune and that of his wife. Luckily most of their ten children were already started on professional careers or prosperously married; the second son, JAMES BUTLER CLOUGH (1784 - 1844), set up as a cotton merchant in Liverpool, and acquired vicarious fame through his two children ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH (1819 - 1861), the poet, and ANNE JEMIMA CLOUGH (1820 - 1892), pioneer of
COOK, ARTHUR JAMES (1883 - 1931), miner and trade union leader
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal November 1773 (at Llewenni), is the subject of the present notice. His very distinguished military career is described fully in the D.N.B. He served in Flanders, at the Cape, and in India, where he came to the notice of Sir Arthur Wellesley, who used him as cavalry commander in the Peninsular War, and would, if he had had his way, have chosen him to command the cavalry at Waterloo. He was afterwards
COX, ARTHUR HUBERT (1884 - 1961), geologist Born 2 December 1884 in Birmingham, son of Arthur James Cox and his wife Mary. He was educated at Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, and then at Birmingham University where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904 and M.Sc. 1905, and subsequently gained the degrees of Ph.D. Strasburg and D.Sc. Birmingham. He was a F.G.S. and was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1948. He began his career
CYNIDR (fl. 6th century), saint Gwynllyw and Gwladys, and therefore a brother to Saint Cadoc. Cynidr is perhaps the Keneder mentioned in the composite 'Life' of S. Cadoc as one of the saints accompanying S. Cadoc in his altercation with king Arthur. Cynidr seems to have been most active in Brecknock, where the churches of Llangynidr, Aberyskir, Llan-y-wern, Cantref, and Glasbury were all originally named after him. His legend is known
CYNWRIG HIR (fl. 1093) Edeirnion subsequent careers of Gruffydd and his descendants. Arthur Jones (editor of the History) and Sir J. E. Lloyd do not agree on the length of Gruffydd's imprisonment, nor, as a result, on the date of Cynwrig's visit to Chester, and Lloyd did not place 'absolute confidence' in the story. The History is, nevertheless, an early authority.
DAFYDD LLWYD ap LLYWELYN ap GRUFFUDD (c. 1420 - c. 1500) Mathafarn, poet earliest of his poems which can be dated is his elegy to Sir Gruffudd Vaughan (died 1447), and the poet lived to sing the praises of Arthur, son of Henry VII, who was born in 1486 -if we can accept the testimony given in Collections, historical & archaeological relating to Montgomeryshire, xxxi, 195. he was composing as late as 1497. No elegy by him Arthur (died 1501) is known, nor to Henry VII (died
DAVIES, BENJAMIN (1858 - 1943), singer tenor to the Carl Rosa Company in 1885 he travelled with that company for three years; in 1885 also he married Clara Perry, chief soprano of the company. In 1888 he returned to London and took part in nearly a thousand performances, e.g. Dorothy, a musical comedy; afterwards he was chosen by Sir Arthur Sullivan to sing in the opera Ivanhoe. He had become one of the most popular singers in Britain and
DAVIES, DAVID ARTHUR (1913 - 1990), meteorologist Arthur Davies was born on 11 November 1913 in Barry, Glamorganshire, the second child of Garfield Brynmor Davies, a schoolteacher, and his wife Mary Jane (née Michael, 1881-1974). He had one brother, William Brynmor Davies (1911-1970). He was educated at Gladstone Road Elementary School and Barry County School, and went on to the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he graduated with first class

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