Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARTER family Kinmel, . 7). Pyrs was followed (J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 259) by a son, David, a grandson, PYRS (sheriff of Denbighshire, 1578), and a great-grandson, DAVID, sheriff of Denbighshire, 1596, whose will was proved in 1616. This David left two infant co-heiresses, Mary and ELIZABETH (she is called by Pennant ' Catherine ', and in some books ' Dorothy ' - which was her mother's name). In 1641 Mary was married
CLARE family II, earl of Hertford, died without a son in 1152, and his lands passed to his brother ROGER (died 1173). Roger strove with little success to withstand the ' Lord ' Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132 - 1197) in Ceredigion. His marriage is of great importance. His daughter-in-law was Amicia, daughter and co-heiress of William earl of Gloucester and lord of Glamorgan, and thus the house of Clare became involved
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest Abergavenny to reconcile his father, William Baker, to the Roman Catholic church, and the old man rebuked him for gabbling his Latin. He sent young men abroad to the seminaries at Douai and Valladolid, and worked in cordial co-operation with the Jesuits and with other secular priests for at least thirty-seven years. He was made an assistant to the archpriest by 1600, and when last heard of, on 2 December
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician -confessed late developer, he was not a great success at either) and, as a mature student, at the University College of Wales, Swansea (1950-54). He had joined the Labour Party as a young man in November 1948 and also became a member of the Co-operative Party in 1955. He held a number of technical positions at various laboratories at Cardiff and Swansea before securing an appointment in 1954 as
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, of John Digby of Goathurst) having predeceased him. Penelope, the only child of his second marriage, to Penelope, daughter of Richard Grenville (Greenould, acc. to Pedigrees) of Wotton Under-wood, Buckinghamshire, and heiress to the Botryddan estate, married James Russel Stapleton, and of their four daughters and co-heiresses, Frances, the youngest, became the wife of Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton of
CORY family provision dealers. They soon became agents for Wayne and Co., and, at the end of their agency, became shippers of coal on their own account. In 1856, Richard Cory disposed of his provision business, and, with his two sons, began to trade as Richard Cory and Sons, concentrating on their business as ship-brokers, ship-owners, coal-merchants and exporters, and colliery agents. In 1859 the father retired, and
CORY family Two distinct families of industrialists in South Wales have borne this surname. This family, John Cory and Sons, Ltd. is to be differentiated from the family of Richard Cory I and his sons who founded the business Cory Brothers Ltd. JOHN CORY I (died 1891), Business and Industry of S. Julian's, near Newport, Monmouth, head of the firm of 'John Cory, Sons and Co.', was born at Padstow, Cornwall
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist those of cross-examining counsel in the law courts and not of school inspectors. In 1848 he became a member of the newly-founded Bangor Diocesan Board of Education to co-ordinate the work of various bodies in the diocese. As vicar of Bangor and cathedral precentor, the fabric of the cathedral and its services, English and Welsh, were his chief care, and in 1824-7 he effected a restoration and
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal Salusbury of Bachygraig, and was the mother of Hester Lynch Piozzi. The eldest, Sir ROBERT SALUSBURY COTTON, 3rd baronet, died 1748; his brother, Sir, Lynch Salusbury Cotton, 4th baronet (died 1775), had a son, Sir ROBERT SALUSBURY COTTON, 5th baronet (died 1807), who married FRANCES RUSSEL STAPLETON, co-heiress of the house of Bodrhyddan, Flintshire (J. E. Griffith, op. cit., 260-1). Their son, born 14
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales in the lordships of Cardif, Glomorgan, Morgannok, Gower, Ilande, Vske, and Carlyon (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 6 H. VII). Again, Matthew Craddoke of London, alias of Swaynesey, co. Glamorgan, is granted a pardon for not appearing before the king's justices 6 February 1504-5 (Cal. Pat. Rolls, 20 H. VII). The contemporary Welsh bard Iorwerth Fynglwyd composed two poems referring to Sir Mathew, one when he was
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor . Mounting unemployment in south Wales had led, through dispersed local initiatives, to a rapid growth of occupational centres and clubs for unemployed men. To provide a co-ordinated regional machinery for the guidance and encouragement of these scattered units, the South Wales and Monmouthshire Council of Social Service was set up in February 1934. Its first Annual Report recorded 'The heavy task of
DANIEL, JOHN (1755? - 1823), printer time; Ifano Jones (History of Printing and Printers in Wales) regards him as the best printer before the era of William Rees, Llandovery, and William Spurrell, Carmarthen. During the years 1791, 1793, and 1794, John Daniel and John Ross co-operated in the production of some books; they were not partners, however. When John Ross was producing, in 1796, the third edition of the ' Peter Williams Bible

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