Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer became a doctrinarian powerful in his contribution.' The Principal added that the field in which he became an expert was the theology of John Calvin and that 'a part of the sadness of his early death was that he had died prior to the completion of that important work in which he was involved.' Alwyn Charles was a man of great energy, an eloquent preacher, a brilliant scholar, an interesting person
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
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer twentieth century. He was educated at Cwm-du Primary School and Manselton Seconday School. His teachers soon realized that he did not have the makings of a scholar. Football was his only passion and he would often spend time in class daydreaming about his future in that field. 'Wake up Charles!', cried an angry teacher, 'You will never earn a living playing football!' It was with a sigh of relief that
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
CLARE family . 10 May 1291. The little that we know of his dealings with his Welsh tenants reflects favourably upon him: he seems to have depended much, in Glamorgan, on Llywelyn Bren (Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, died 1317) of the old Welsh ruling family of Senghennydd. But he fell on Bannockburn field, 24 June 1314. An eventual partition of his lands (1317) gave Tonbridge, Gloucester, Newport, and Wentloog to his
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
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer about Mappin's wishes. Condry became the reserve's first warden from 1969 until 1982. Condry was a part-time teacher at the former Lapley Grange School, Furnace from 1949 to 1959. From 1947 to 1956 he was the Mid Wales Nature Warden for the then West Wales Field Society and from 1950 to 1954 he edited the Society's Field Notes which, in 1955, became Nature in Wales, again first edited by Condry with
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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