Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CADWGAN (d. 1111), prince the reign of William Rufus, defeating the Normans in 1094 at the battle of Coed Yspwys (its site is unknown) and joining Gruffudd ap Cynan in the defence of Anglesey and the flight to Ireland of 1098. When better conditions enabled the two to return to Wales in 1099, Cadwgan received from earl Robert of Shrewsbury in vassalage his share of Powys and, therewith, Ceredigion. He allowed himself to be
CADWGAN (d. 1241), bishop of Bangor He succeeded after the death of Robert in 1212. Llywelyn ap Iorwerth was at this time dominant in North Wales, and it was, no doubt, through his influence that Cadwgan obtained the see. King John, moreover, who, in the early months of 1215, was angling for the support of the Welsh against the barons, put no obstacles in his way. On 13 March the chapter was allowed to elect the abbot of Whitland
CAMPBELL, ELIZA CONSTANTIA (1796 - 1864), author Born 8 January 1796, she was the daughter of Richard Pryce of Gunley near Forden (one of whose ancestors, Capt. Richard Pryce, was a prominent Montgomeryshire Roundhead). She was twice married: first (1826) to Commander Robert Campbell, R.N. (died 1832), a cousin of Thomas Campbell the poet - one of their sons was Lewis Campbell the Greek scholar; and secondly (1844) to Capt. Hugh Morrieson
CANNON, MARTHA MARIA HUGHES (1857 - 1932), doctor and politician was done in the field of public health. In her first month in office, she introduced a bill to establish a state public health authority which was instrumental in imposing higher hygiene standards throughout the state, improving the water supply, licensing medical practitioners and attempting to control infectious diseases. Martha was voted to the board of the new authority. At the same time she
CARADOG ap IESTYN (fl. 1130), founder of the family of 'Avene' in Glamorgan his brothers, Gruffydd and Goronwy, he was concerned in 1127 in a deed of violence, the bearing of which is uncertain. But it is clear that, on the collapse of Iestyn's rule, he received from Robert Fitz Hamon the land between Nedd and Afan (and perhaps more) as a subordinate holding, to be retained by his descendants for many generations. By his wife, Gwladus, daughter of Gruffydd ap Rhys, he had
CARTER family Kinmel, . Edward Hughes - see the article Hughes, Hugh Robert, which brings the story of Kinmel down to 1911. It may be added here that Hugh S. B. Hughes died in 1918, and his brother and heir in 1940. The house (which had been rebuilt) was occupied by the War Department during the 1914-19 war, and was sold in 1934; but the greater part of the lands passed to the heir who, in 1953, deposited the family papers in
CARTER-JONES, LEWIS (1920 - 2004), Labour politician member of a large number of committees and bodies related to these concerns. Carter-Jones had focused interests outside his main field of activity. For 20 years from 1966 he was secretary of the Indo-British Parliamentary Group. He also developed a lifelong interest in Colombia after he had been a member of the Inter-parliamentary Union visit. His constituents had come to respect him, not least for his
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) The claim that this distinguished English political family is of Welsh origin calls for some clarification. The ancestral name, which appears in the family pedigrees as 'Sitsyllt' and was softened down to 'Sissild,' 'Cyssel,' 'Cecild,' and 'Cecil' in the course of the 15th and 16th century, is presumably the Welsh Seisyll; but the founder of the family, ROBERT SITSYLTT, first appears in history
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
CHALONER, ROBERT (1612 - 1675), herald - see CHALONER, THOMAS
CHALONER, THOMAS (d. 1598), Ulster King of Arms Some particulars of this painter, poet, antiquary, and actor are given by W. J. Hemp in ' Two Welsh Heraldic Pedigrees, with notes on Thomas Chaloner, Ulster King of Arms,' in Y Cymm., xl. He was the fourth son of Robert Chaloner of Denbigh by his wife Dowce, daughter of Richard Mathew of Lleweni Green, Denbighshire. As Hemp points out, several members of the family were students of heraldry and
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

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