Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Alwyn Charles was born at Colombia Row, Llanelli, 18 December 1924, the son of David John Charles and his wife. He received his elementary education at St. Paul and Lakefield, Llanelli, prior to entering Woodend Secretarial College. From that college he went to serve as a clerk at the solicitors' office of Jennings and Williams. He began to preach at Capel Als, Llanelli, where the Reverend D. J
CHARLES, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric He was born 14 October 1755, probably at Longmoor, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees Charles, farmer, and his wife Jael, daughter of David Bowen of Pibwr Lwyd, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1763; David Charles I was his brother. From Llanddowror village school he went (1769) to Carmarthen Academy under Jenkin Jenkins, and thence (1775) to Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1779); his
CHARLES, THOMAS (1811 - 1873), physician - see CHARLES, DAVID, III
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer John Charles was born at 19 Alice Street, Cwmbwrla, Swansea, on 27 December 1931, the first of the three sons and two daughters of Edward Charles (1898-1972), a steel construction worker, and his wife Lily (née Burridge, 1902-1984). John Charles was a remarkable footballer and the first Welshman to win fame in the international arena. He was undoubtedly the finest player raised in Wales in the
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer Johnnie Clay was born at Bonvilston, Glamorgan, on 18 March 1898, the son of Charles L. Clay and his wife Margaret (née Press). A member of a prominent sporting family in the Chepstow area, his father's shipping business was based on Cardiff Docks. He was educated at Winchester School and married Gwenllian Mary, the daughter of Colonel Homfray of Penlline castle. A fast bowler in his youth, he
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician Charles Clements was born at 12 Little Darkgate street, Aberystwyth on 18 August 1898, the son of a Devon man, Frederick William Clements, and his wife Annie Maria (died 1946), who hailed from Bala. He displayed musical promise at an early age, and had organ lessons from G. Stephen Evans and A. C. Edwards, and piano lessons from Charles Panchen. His immense talent brought him the Royal College of
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, recusant lists of the period along with the Conways of Sychtyn in the parish of Northop, descended from James Conway, one of the sons of John ' Aer Conwy Hen ' by his second wife. This taint, however, had quite disappeared by the time William Conway's son, Sir HENRY CONWAY (1630 - 1669), came into his inheritance. Created a bart. by Charles II, 25 July 1660, he sat for Flintshire in the Pensionary
CONWAY, CHARLES (1820 - 1884), painter and engraver the completion of the work. The following are in the National Museum of Wales : ' Studies of Flowers ' (water-colour), ' Pont Sarn ' (sepia), ' Hafod yr Ynys Farm ' (etching), ' The Alchemist ' (etching), ' On the Way ' (etching), ' Chepstow Castle ' (etching). His nephew and namesake, CHARLES CONWAY (fl. 1870), was an accomplished amateur painter in water-colour and etcher. Uncle and nephew
CONWAY, CHARLES (fl. 1870), water-colour painter and etcher - see CONWAY, CHARLES
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium Born the only child of George Edward Pearce-Serocold and his second wife, Mary Richardson of Derwen Fawr, Swansea. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant, and they lived in Cadoxton Lodge, near Neath. She became, thereby, daughter-in-law to Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier and sister-in-law to Dorothy Coombe Tennant who married the famous explorer H.M. Stanley). During World War I she was deputy
CORY family Wesleyan Methodist. He died 26 December 1931 and was buried at the Cardiff cemetery. He left two sons, JOHN HERBERT CORY (died 17 May 1939, aged 50), and CHARLES KINGSLEY CORY. Sir JAMES HERBERT CORY (1857 - 1933), 1st baronet Business and IndustryRoyalty and Society, was the younger son of John Cory I, and was born at Padstow 7 February 1857. He was a shipowner, director of thirty-five companies

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