Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BROCHWEL YSGYTHROG (fl. 550), prince He was, according to tradition, the outstanding figure in the older line of rulers of Powys, insomuch that the poets came to call Powys the land of Brochwel. He was the son of Cyngen and the father of Cynan Garwyn and of S. Tysilio, founder of the ancient church of Meifod. As his grandson, Selyf ap Cynan, fell while leading the Welsh in the battle of Chester (c. 613), he cannot be the Brocmail
BROSTER family, printers Bangor PETER BROSTER printed an edition of Y Llyfr Plygain at Chester in 1783. In 1807 JOHN BROSTER started in business at Bangor; he was probably the John Broster who had been apprenticed to W. C. Jones, printer, Chester. John Broster's son, CHARLES BROSTER, was owner, publisher, and printer in 1817 of The North Wales Gazette, a newspaper of which the first number had been produced at Bangor on 5
BROUGHTON family Marchwiel, BROUGHTON (c. 1544 - c. 1614), Ralph Broughton's grandson (and heir to the Plas Isa estate), added to it that of Marchwiel Hall by his marriage to the daughter of Henry Parry of Basingwerk and Marchwiel, and was sheriff of Denbighshire in 1608. His eldest son Sir EDWARD BROUGHTON was knighted in 1618 (18 March). In 1639 (22 January) he was pardoned (on the petition of his wife and the certificate of judge
BURTON, URIAH, 'Big Just' (c.1926 - 1986), bare-knuckle fighter and activist Uriah Burton was born c.1926, the second son of Ernest Burton (c.1892-1960), a Romany horse dealer, and his wife Emily Dora (née Buckland, c.1895-1951). Uriah's siblings were: Data Ashella Burton (b. c.1919), Matilda 'Tillie' (b. c. 1920), Hosea Noah 'Othea' Burton (b. c.1921), Esmeralda Burton (b. c.1925), Frederick Burton (b. c.1929), Dawn (b. 1931) and William 'Billy' Burton (b. c.1938). Uriah
CADOG saint (fl. c. 450), one of the chief figures of the Celtic church in Wales
CADWALADR, DAFYDD (1752 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist preacher great reader and was wont to recite the Bardd Cwsc and the Pilgrim's Progress at the knitting-meetings. After being a farm boy in several places, he became (c. 1771) a servant at Fedw Arian, Bala, under the preacher William Evans, who had already attracted him to Methodism. About 1777 he married Judith Humphreys (or ' Erasmus '; she died c. 1795-6). Of his nine children, the four sons died before him
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician Martha Hughes Cannon was born in Madoc Street, Llandudno on 1 July 1857, the second of the three daughters of Peter Hughes (c.1825-1861), a carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth (née Evans, c.1833-1923). At the time, there was a small Mormon community flourishing in the old village of Llandudno on the Great Orme, of which Peter and Elizabeth Hughes were probably members. Their last address in Wales
CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat appears in the county muster for the Boulogne campaign in 1544, but he spent the entire period of the siege as resident ambassador in Brussels. He was in retirement under Edward VI, save for membership of the Council of Wales (c. 1551) and occasional consultation on diplomatic issues. Under Mary he served a second term as sheriff (1554), and as M.P. for Glamorgan (1554) he provided the first known
CARTER family Kinmel, in Wales; in 1651 (confirmed by Cromwell in his governorship of Conway), and again in 1656, lord-lieutenant of Caernarvonshire. He was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire in 1654, 1656, and 1658-9; and Cromwell knighted him c. March 1657/8. But towards the end of the Protectorate, Carter was evidently 'trimming'; he was expelled from the Rump Parliament. After the Restoration he was knighted
CATRIN ferch GRUFFUDD ap HYWEL (fl. c. 1555), poet
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister Aberystwyth in October 1872. Upon the appointment of his nephew T. C. Edwards as principal he resigned his post and later migrated to Aberdovey, where he died on 13 December 1878. In 1869 he was moderator of the general assembly of his connexion. He married (1), 1839, Kate Roberts, Holyhead, who died c. 1844; (2), 1846, Mary, daughter of Hugh Jones of Llanidloes and widow of Benjamin Watkins, by whom he had
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric his career thenceforth [though he not infrequently officiated in Anglican churches and chapels in England ] was that of a preacher among the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists and an active member of their synodical assemblies - it was he who, c. 1800, initiated the important innovation of allowing the societies to choose their own 'leaders' (today called 'elders'), who had hitherto been centrally

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