Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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 is doubtful whether it would have been published without the efforts of Cecil-Williams. He never accepted that the project was too ambitious and too costly. With the help of his fellow officers he succeeded in raising the necessary money from county councils and organisations such as the Pilgrim Trust; and this guaranteed the publication in 1953 of the volume now acknowledged as one of the most
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist position within the Department of Manuscripts and Records in the National Library of Wales. His career was interrupted by war service, but he returned to his post, now re-graded 'Assistant Keeper I', in 1945. He was to remain in this position until his retirement in the spring of 1973. During his long professional career Bertie Charles produced scholarly catalogues of a large number of archive groups
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer sequence showing the re-lighting of the blast furnaces in Brymbo steelworks. Ironically an economic upturn spelled the end of the Wrexham Star as their sales force obtained regular employment. The paper amalgamated with the Wrexham Advertiser in March 1936. Geoff was now a competent photographer to the extent that Woodall's Managing Director Rowland Thomas offered him management of their photographic
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
CLARE family therefore fought for the king at Evesham (1265). He then however again changed sides, and indeed was the chief author of the compromise of 1267. In the same year was signed the treaty of Montgomery, which acknowledged Llywelyn as Prince of Wales and gave him (among other gains) the lordship of Brecknock. Llywelyn's lands in Brecknock now marched with the Clare lands, and a further question arose - if
CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector collection, 'arranged systematically by chemistry' and recorded in two handwritten catalogues, is now housed in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff where it forms one of its most important historic collections. As a collector and cataloguer Henrietta was not a leader in scientific endeavour but collections and the ideas that developed from their availability are crucial to the development of science
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, women's education and first principal of Newnham, both of whom resided for a time at Min-y-don (now destroyed). On the brief connection with Hafodunos, see under John Lloyd (1749 - 1815).
CLYDOG (fl. 500?), saint and martyr was the son of Clydwyn ap Brychan, and ruled over Ewias, now for the most part in the county of Hereford. He is known only from the account given of him in Liber Landavensis. According to this, he was a prince of pious habits, who loved peace and justice, and who was slain while hunting on the banks of the Monnow by a jealous follower. The occasion was the declaration of a maiden, courted by the
CNEPPYN GWERTHRYNION (fl. 13th century), poet and grammarian gather that he hailed from Gwerthryniawn (now part of Radnorshire), and that his verse was 'correct by Latin standards' or by the rhetorical standards of his period. In some manuscripts ' Cneppyn Gwerthryniawn ' is given as one of several nicknames borne by Sypyn Cyfeiliog or Dafydd Bach ap Madog Wladaidd, but as this Dafydd sang late in the 14th century he could not have been the original Cneppyn (see
COBB, JOSEPH RICHARD (1821 - 1897), antiquary Born 25 April 1821, at Broughton castle, Oxfordshire. By profession he was a lawyer, and also a promoter of railways; it was he, e.g., who got the ' Brecon and Merthyr Railway ' constructed. His chief interest, however, was in antiquities, and he was a prominent member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. He played a leading part in the restoration of the priory church (now the cathedral
CORY family , aged 10, RICHARD, aged 8, and THOMAS, aged 5, to Cardiff. Richard Cory and his two eldest sons, JOHN and RICHARD, eagerly seized the advantages now offered by the opening up of collieries and the improved methods of transport and of export in the forties in order to extend their business. They moved to the docks district about 1842 and added a ship-broking business to that of the chandler and
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian was revoked. He now moved to Wrexham, where he created such an impression that the North Wales Puritans became known as the ' Cradockians.' The next five years found him working hard in the Marches. In 1635-6 he spent some time with Richard Symonds and Richard Baxter at Shrewsbury. On 8 May 1638 he was arrested while attending divine service at the house of Mrs. De Lamars Veasy in London and, with

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