Dictionary of Welsh Biography

Congo House / African Training Institute family, students , and Nkanza, who succumbed to heart failure on 3 April 1892.
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric Born, on his own evidence (P.R.O., E321/39/24), about 1500, Constantine was educated at the University of Cambridge where he graduated B.Can.L. in 1524. He adopted the reforming doctrines and fled to Antwerp, where he assisted Tyndale and Joye in translating the New Testament and compiling books against the Roman church. He also lived in Paris for a time, and made his house there a centre for the
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL (1787 - 1857), geologist and divine , 1850, 24-40. He died 12 August 1857.
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer the Neath Guardian. In 1963, Coombes was honoured by the National Union of Mineworkers for 'outstanding contributions to working-class literature'. Mary Coombes died on 3 July 1970, and this loss had a profound impact on her husband, who had cared for his wife in the years prior to her death. B. L. Coombes died on 4 June 1974, at the age of eighty-one. He was buried alongside Mary at the same church
CORY family (died 1909), daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, Newport, Monmouth, by whom he had one daughter, FLORENCE MARGARET CORY, of The Duffryn, S. Nicholas, lady of the manor, and patron of the living (died 11 November 1936), and three sons: (1) HERBERT B. CORY (died 1927); (2) SIR CLIFFORD JOHN CORY, Bart., president of the South Wales Coalowners' Association, 1906 (died 3 February 1941); and (3
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian Propagation of the Gospel in Wales ' (1650), under which he became one of the twenty-five examiners appointed to inquire into the suitability of preachers who sought to minister in Wales. From this time until his death Monmouthshire was the scene of his primary labours, and we find him distributing alms to 'divers religious people' in that county in accordance with the law. On 25 March 1652-3 Cradoc
CRAWSHAY family, industrialists Cyfarthfa Crawshay (infra). Besides these important works, he held many shares in the Taff Vale Railway, etc. He died at Caversham Park, 4 August 1867. ROBERT THOMPSON CRAWSHAY (1817 - 1879), Business and Industry was born at Cyfarthfa, 3 March 1817, the youngest son [by a second marriage] of the ' Iron King,' and was given Cyfarthfa works and its castle. He carried on the works until the great depression set in
CYNDDELW BRYDYDD MAWR (fl. 1155-1200), leading 12th century Welsh court poet the 'Black Book of Carmarthen,' and a little of his work also appears in Peniarth MS 3, which also belongs to the first half of the 13th century. Most of Cynddelw's extant work is found in the Hendregadredd manuscript, a considerable part in the 'Red Book of Hergest,' and all which has survived has been collected together in The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales
CYNGEN, (d. 855), prince Cambrensis, 1935, 330-3. The 'g' in ' Eliseg's Pillar ' goes back to an error of the original graver; the old form, as the pedigrees show, was Elized, which became successively Elisedd, Elise, and Elis. The monument has suffered many misfortunes: it was thrown down in the Civil Wars and the remains re-erected in 1779. As for the ancient dynasty of Powys, it came to an end with Cyngen, for, though he is
CYNWAL, RICHARD (d. 1634), poet of Ardudwy. Richard Phylip and Rowland Vaughan wrote elegies upon his death (Cwrtmawr MS 11B). It is difficult to ascertain whether any relationship existed between William Cynwal and Richard. An example of his handwriting is to be found in Cardiff MS. 83 (3-4, 429).
DAFYDD (DAVID) ap GRUFFYDD (d. 1283), prince of Gwynedd . Eventually he was brought to trial at Shrewsbury, and there, on 3 October 1283, David III, on account of his broken allegiance to England's king, suffered a traitor's death. There are no records of David's marital associations before his alliance with Elizabeth Ferrers; but he had a large number of daughters who appear to have ended their days in various nunneries, and two sons, Llywelyn and Owen, the
DAFYDD ap LLYWELYN ap MADOG (fl. 16th century), poet His poems are preserved in Peniarth MS 124, Jes. Coll. MS. 14, Llanstephan MS 167, Cardiff MSS. 7, 23, 63, Hafod MS. 10, B.M. Add. MSS. 12230, 14991, 15015, NLW MS 668C, NLW MS 2602B, NLW MS 6681B, NLW MS 8330B, and Gwyneddon MS. 3. Among them are cywyddau in praise of S. Mordeyrn, saint of honour ('Sant anrhydedd') at Nantglyn, and to S. Dyfnog, and a cywydd to God which is attributed in

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