Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector baby daughter inoculated against smallpox while in Rome in March 1788. In 1797 her husband Edward was appointed Governor of Madras [Chennai] by the East India Company and on 2 April 1798 Henrietta, her husband, their two daughters (the boys were left at home) and the girls' governess, the Italian artist Anna Tonelli, sailed for India. During a stopover in South Africa a contemporary described her as
CLYNNOG, MORGAN (1558 - after 1619), seminary priest Abergavenny to reconcile his father, William Baker, to the Roman Catholic church, and the old man rebuked him for gabbling his Latin. He sent young men abroad to the seminaries at Douai and Valladolid, and worked in cordial co-operation with the Jesuits and with other secular priests for at least thirty-seven years. He was made an assistant to the archpriest by 1600, and when last heard of, on 2 December
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician singing. A small group of his political papers is in the custody of the National Library of Wales. Coleman married (1) in 1949 Phyllis Eileen Williams, who died in 1963 - they had one son; and (2) in January 1966 Margaret Elizabeth Morgan - they had one daughter. His second wife survived him. Their home was at 'Penderyn', 18 Penywern Road, Bryncoch, Neath. Donald Coleman died on 14 January 1991 and was
CONDRY, WILLIAM MORETON (1918 - 1998), naturalist, conservationist and writer Secretary for 8 years, then its President and finally Honorary Life President in 1990. In 1949 he was one of the founders of the Kite Committee (formed to protect the then rare red kite in Wales), and in 1965 he was awarded the RSPB's Silver Medal for services to bird protection in Wales. After finishing his teaching career, Condry devoted all his time to natural history, conservation and writing. In a
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, Parliament from 1661 until his premature death in the autumn of 1669. His eldest son, Sir JOHN CONWAY (1663 - 1721), succeeded as 2nd bart. Educated at Christ Church, Oxford, he was Member of Parliament for Flintshire 1685-7, 1695-1701, 1705-8, and 1713-5, and for Flint boroughs 1702, 1708-13, and 1715 until his death in 1721. Although he had been one of James II's retinue when he visited Oxford as duke of
CONWAY, CHARLES (1820 - 1884), painter and engraver Born at Whitehall, near Pontnewydd, Monmouthshire, 8 February 1820. He was a versatile artist, for to painting he added china decoration, carving, and etching. His etchings illustrative of Welsh folk-lore obtained a prize at a Cardiff eisteddfod. He began a series of plates of some of the forest trees of Monmouthshire to be published under the title of Silva Silurica, but his death interrupted
CONYBEARE, WILLIAM DANIEL (1787 - 1857), geologist and divine Born 8 June 1787, son of the rector of S. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London; he himself became rector of Sully, 1822-35, and dean of Llandaff, 1845-57. As a geologist he played an important part in establishing the study of the fossil reptiles of past ages, and while at Sully helped to lay the foundation of our knowledge of the South Wales coalfield, drawing attention to the anticlinal fold which
COOK, ARTHUR JAMES (1883 - 1931), miner and trade union leader , complications set in, and he died at the Manor House Hospital, London, 2 November 1931.
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
CORY family Coryton, Whitchurch; was twice married; and died on his birthday, 2 February 1933, aged 76, leaving an estate of £507,000. He left four sons and one daughter by his first marriage, and two daughters by his second marriage. He was succeeded by his eldest son, Sir HERBERT GEORGE DONALD CORY, 2nd baronet, Silverton, Llandaff, who died 7 May 1935, and the latter was succeeded by his son, Sir VYVYAN DONALD
COTTON, JAMES HENRY (1780 - 1862), dean of Bangor cathedral and educationist precentor of Bangor cathedral, 1810-38, rector of Llandyfrydog, Anglesey, 1814, and Llanllechid, 1821, dean of Bangor and rector of Gaerwen in Anglesey and Gyffin, Conway, 1838. He married (1) 14 April 1810, Mary Anne, daughter of bishop Majendie of Bangor (she died October 1823 leaving one son, afterwards the Rev. H. J. Cotton, rector of Dalbury, Derby); and (2) 6 June 1826, Mary Laurens, daughter of
COX, ARTHUR HUBERT (1884 - 1961), geologist Born 2 December 1884 in Birmingham, son of Arthur James Cox and his wife Mary. He was educated at Edward VI Grammar School, Birmingham, and then at Birmingham University where he graduated B.Sc. in 1904 and M.Sc. 1905, and subsequently gained the degrees of Ph.D. Strasburg and D.Sc. Birmingham. He was a F.G.S. and was awarded the Lyell Medal of the Geological Society in 1948. He began his career

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