Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARTER family Kinmel, in Wales; in 1651 (confirmed by Cromwell in his governorship of Conway), and again in 1656, lord-lieutenant of Caernarvonshire. He was Member of Parliament for Denbighshire in 1654, 1656, and 1658-9; and Cromwell knighted him c. March 1657/8. But towards the end of the Protectorate, Carter was evidently 'trimming'; he was expelled from the Rump Parliament. After the Restoration he was knighted
CARTER, HUGH (1784 - 1855), Welsh Wesleyan Methodist minister Born 15 June 1784. He began to preach in 1802, entered the ministry in 1805, and 'travelled' in Wales until 1816, when he was transferred to the English work. He became a supernumerary in 1854 and died at Northwich, 8 September 1855. He was the first Welsh missionary to be stationed in Manchester; he was largely instrumental in erecting the first Welsh Wesleyan Methodist chapel in London; and his
CHALONER, THOMAS (d. 1598), Ulster King of Arms genealogy, Thomas Chaloner being employed as an agent by the College of Heralds for some years under the designation of ' Deputy to the Office of Arms.' His appointment as Ulster King of Arms he received on the very day that he died, viz. 14 May 1598. He was buried in S. Michaels church, Chester. His wife, whom he married 8 November 1584, was Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Alcock, Chester. On 10 January
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Erwood and later in the neighbourhood of Cathedin. He was baptised 17 April 1887 in Hephzibah church, Erwood, and at the urging of his pastor, John Morgan, he began to preach. He resumed his education, spending 2 years at a grammar school held by Daniel Christmas Lloyd (Congl. minister), in his home, Hampton House, Glasbury, and then at the Baptist College and University College, Cardiff, where he
CHAPPELL, EDGAR LEYSHON (1879 - 1949), sociologist, a pioneer of town and village redevelopment, and writer Born 8 April 1879 at Ystalyfera, Glamorganshire, son of Alfred Chappell and Ellen Watkins. Trained for the teaching profession at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, he was for a time headmaster of Rhiw-fawr school, Pontardawe. In 1912 he joined Professor Herbert Stanley Jevons as a research assistant in economics, work which involved travelling and lecturing in
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 (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer faith of the denomination). He began to preach in 1808 and administered the sacrament of baptism before he was ordained in the first Association for ordaining Methodist ministers held at Llandilo in 1811. He was one of the principal antagonists of the rule of Nathaniel Rowland in the Methodist denomination. In 1828 he had a seizure, and was an invalid for the rest of his life. He died 2 September 1834
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, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric Charles's financial mainstay], he sought curacies in the neighbouring region - at Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, Llandegla and Bryneglwys, Denbighshire, and Llan-ym-mawddwy, Merionethshire, but his Evangelical views made his position in all of these untenable, and any prospect of Anglican preferment in Wales vanished. On 2 July 1784 he was formally enrolled as a member of the Methodist Society at Bala, and
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer Stadium pitch in Swansea. John Charles was a remarkably gifted footballer. He was blessed with an extremely powerful body, and in his prime he stood at 6' 2" and weighed 14 stone. The Juventus club doctor had never seen any player with such a body. Others likened him to a Greek god. His brother Mel (himself an extremely talented footballer) chose the fitting title In the Shadow of a Giant for his own
CLARE family under Morgan ap Caradog ap Iestyn - and built a castle at Llantrisant to control the commote. Even more important was his son GILBERT IV (1243 - 1295), ' the Red Earl ' born 2 September 1243; his first wife was Alice de Valence, of the family which had succeeded the Marshal's in the earldom of Pembroke. The Red Earl's father and grandfather, absorbed in the baronial struggle with the Crown, had been
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer the Second World War. He played for England in the Fifth Test Match against South Africa in 1935, and declined further invitations: he would probably have obtained further honours if he had agreed to be available for overseas tours. He captured more than 100 wickets in a season on three occasions, and his best match performance was 17 wickets for 212 runs (9 for 66 and 8 for 146) against

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