Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLARK family, printers and publishers JAMES CLARK (1781 - 1859) settled in Chepstow in 1823; born 22 January 1781 at Gloucester, he became an apprentice in the offices of The Gloucester Journal, and afterwards worked in London and Portsmouth. He married Mary Baker (died 1875, a centenarian) about the time that he returned to Gloucester, which was in 1808. He appears to have lived at Gosport, Hants., and Trowbridge, Wiltshire, before
CLAY, JOHN CHARLES (1898 - 1973), cricketer Johnnie Clay was born at Bonvilston, Glamorgan, on 18 March 1898, the son of Charles L. Clay and his wife Margaret (née Press). A member of a prominent sporting family in the Chepstow area, his father's shipping business was based on Cardiff Docks. He was educated at Winchester School and married Gwenllian Mary, the daughter of Colonel Homfray of Penlline castle. A fast bowler in his youth, he
CLEMENTS, CHARLES HENRY (1898 - 1983), musician encouragement. It was, however, H. Walford Davies, as Professor of Music at the University College, who set him on his career path. Davies heard him playing piano accompaniments to silent films at the Palladium cinema in Aberystwyth and invited him to join a piano trio being formed in the Music Department; Clements then studied for a music degree, graduating in 1924. Two years later he was appointed a
CLOUGH family Plas Clough, Glan-y-wern, Bathafarn, Hafodunos, local militia for the French war (1795). His flair for business appears in his work from 1792 as an agricultural improver - much praised by Gwallter Mechain (Walter Davies) and recognized by the gold medal of the Society of Arts (1807) - on his farm of Eriviat and the Bathafarn estate, and also in his association with David Mason (Ystrad Uchaf), Rev. J. Lloyd Jones (Plas Madoc), and his own nephew and
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
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer an opportunity for a time, the works medical officer, Evan Davies, being a supporter of that cause.
COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister conference to send Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) to Ruthin in August 1800.
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician 1983 when he backed Peter Shore (rather than his Welsh colleague Neil Kinnock) for party leader and Denzil Davies, the Labour MP for Llanelli, for deputy leader. He was especially prominent in the public life of Neath, Swansea and West Glamorgan. His leisure interests included membership of the chorus of the Welsh National Opera Company, where he performed as a tenor soloist (probably the only MP
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer Exploring Wales (1970), Snowdonia (1987), Wales, the National Trust (1991) and Welsh Country Essays (1996). Wildflower Safari, the Life of Mary Richards (1998) is the biography of the Meirionnydd botanist who became one of Kew's greatest plant collectors in tropical Africa. Condry wrote an autobiography, Wildlife - My Life, published in 1995. He was an accomplished wildlife photographer and many of his
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, marriage. The direct line ended with Sir JOHN CONWAY (1575 - 1641), son and heir of the last-mentioned. John Conway, on his death without issue in August or September 1641. During the reign of James I and up to the eve of the Civil War the family showed distinct Romanist leanings, both Mary, Sir John's wife, and WILLIAM CONWAY, his brother who succeeded him at Botryddan, figuring prominently in the
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium Born the only child of George Edward Pearce-Serocold and his second wife, Mary Richardson of Derwen Fawr, Swansea. In 1895 she married Charles Coombe Tennant, and they lived in Cadoxton Lodge, near Neath. She became, thereby, daughter-in-law to Gertrude Barbara Rich Collier and sister-in-law to Dorothy Coombe Tennant who married the famous explorer H.M. Stanley). During World War I she was deputy
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer move was more of a return than a new beginning. In comparison to Coombes's experience of Treharris, Resolven was in a more rural area which clearly suited the Herefordshire boy. Coombes married Mary Rogers - a local woman of similar age - at St David's Church, Resolven, in September 1913. As was commonplace in the area, Mary was a Welsh speaker and over the years, Coombes acquired enough Welsh to

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