Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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, 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 daughter. These pictures appeared on 23rd January 1937. Later he was to team up with a promising young reporter named John Roberts Williams to photograph stories for Y Cymro. The two had first been introduced by a mutual acquaintance at Pwllheli football field in 1938. Geoff regarded John Roberts Williams as the man who made him realise and value his Welsh heritage. John Roberts Williams was best man at
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric life, Thomas Charles, now that Daniel Rowland and William Williams of Pantycelyn were dead, became the chief leader of his connexion. The books mentioned in a previous paragraph form but a part of his copious printed output - [in 1803, for the better furtherance of his publishing work, he had induced the printer Robert Saunderson to settle at Bala as quasiofficial printer to the connexion, but even
CHERLETON family JOHN CHERLETON (1268 - 1353) Son of Robert, lord of Cherleton in Wrockwardine, Salop. In 1309 he married Hawise Gadarn ('the Hardy'), sister and heir of Gruffydd ab Owain (died 1309 - see under Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn), lord of Powys; thus the Cherletons were lords of this part of Wales in the 14th and early 15th century. The occupation of Powys by John Cherleton was opposed by Gruffydd ap
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector Herbert (1755-1801). Little is known of her early upbringing. By 1771, when she was 13, her father had run into financial difficulties and he sold Oakley Park to the wealthy nabob Robert Clive (1725-1774), first Baron Clive of Plassey, better known today as 'Clive of India'. In the following year (1772) Henrietta's father died and her beloved brother George became second Earl of Powis. In 1774, 'Clive
CLOUGH, Sir RICHARD (d. 1570), merchant, and (for a period) 'factor' for Sir Thomas Gresham in Antwerp , Denbighshire; he was Katherine's second husband. Of this marriage there were two daughters, among their descendants being Hester Lynch Salusbury and Sir Robert Salusbury (died 1818), baronet, of Cotton Hall, Denbighshire, and Llan-wern, Monmouthshire. (Clough had, by Catherine Muldert of Antwerp, a son named Richard, from whom were descended the Cloughs described in the article on that family.) About the
CLYNNOG, MORYS (c. 1525 - 1581), Roman Catholic theologian to the see of Bangor but, before he was consecrated, queen Mary died and he went into voluntary exile rather than conform with the new dispensation under Elizabeth. In 1561 he, bishop Goldwell, and Gruffydd Robert, archdeacon of Anglesey, arrived in Rome. Goldwell was appointed warden of the English Hospital in that city, Gruffydd Robert became chaplain in 1564, and Morys Clynnog ' Camerarius ' in
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
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal came of the house of Salusbury of Llewenni - pedigree in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 222. Sir John Salusbury (died s.p. 1684) left the estate to his sister HESTER (died 1710), who married Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, of Combermere (died 1713); their son Sir THOMAS COTTON, 2nd baronet (died 1715), married Philadelphia Lynch. They had three children, of whom the youngest, Hester, married John
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian three others, was summoned to appear before the Court of High Commission. He may have escaped from London to the Marches for, from February to November 1639, he was a member of the Puritan congregation which was formed in Llanfair Waterdine under the patronage of Sir Robert Harley. There is no record of his being tried by the High Commission. Between 5 November and 6 December 1639 he was in Llanfaches

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