Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CLIVE, HENRIETTA ANTONIA (1758 - 1830), traveller and scientific collector speak Italian and once in India she began learning Persian (the language of the princely courts) and 'Hindustani', becoming adept enough in the former to attempt a translation of lines by the fourteenth-century Persian poet Hafez or Hafiz (his work was first translated into English by William Jones in 1771). Such preparations reveal her as someone with a desire to learn about rather than simply
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
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, Lleweni and Combermere abbey (see Cotton, Sir Stapleton). Penelope, daughter and co-heiress of Penelope, the eldest daughter, and Ellis Yonge of Acton and Bryn Iorcyn, married William Davies Shipley, dean of St Asaph. It may be of further interest to note that from Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Conway by his first wife, who married Sir Thomas Longueville, bart., was descended Harry Longueville Jones
COPPACK, MAIR HAFINA (1936 - 2011), author and columnist Hafina Clwyd was born on 1st July 1936 in Gwyddelwern, Meirionethshire, the eldest of four children of Alun Jones (1907-1980), a farmer, and his wife Morfydd (née Jones, 1910-1971). She was brought up on Cefnmaenllwyd farm, and attended primary school at Gwyddelwern and Bala Girls' Grammar School. The family moved to Rhydonnen near Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, in 1953, and Hafina went to Brynhyfryd
COSLET, EDWARD (1750 - 1828), Calvinistic Methodist preacher Born at Machen, Monmouthshire, in 1750. He was converted under the ministry of William Edwards (1719 - 1789), joined the church in Groeswen in 1769, and began to preach. He moved to Castleton, Monmouth, about 1776, where he came into touch with Blanche Evans of S. Mellons, who brought him to the notice of David Jones of Llan-gan and the Methodist society established in that place. He founded
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
CRADOCK, Sir MATHEW (1468? - 1531), royal official in South Wales imprisoned by him, at Swansea, and another seeking to be reconciled to him (Lewis and Jones, Mynegai). He was twice married - first to Alice, daughter of Philip Mansel of Oxwich castle, and second to Katherine Gordon, widow of Perkin Warbeck. By his first wife he had a daughter, Margaret, who married Richard Herbert of Ewyas, Herefordshire, and became the mother of William Herbert, who was created earl of
CRAWLEY, RICHARD (1840 - 1893), scholar Born at Bryngwyn near Raglan, Monmouthshire, 26 December 1840, son of William Crawley, archdeacon of Monmouth, and of Gertrude, third daughter of Sir Love Jones Parry of Madryn. He was a Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. His career and works (the chief of which was the translation of Thucydides, now included in ' Everyman's Library') are noticed by Sidney Lee in the D.N.B., First Supplement
CYNWRIG HIR (fl. 1093) Edeirnion subsequent careers of Gruffydd and his descendants. Arthur Jones (editor of the History) and Sir J. E. Lloyd do not agree on the length of Gruffydd's imprisonment, nor, as a result, on the date of Cynwrig's visit to Chester, and Lloyd did not place 'absolute confidence' in the story. The History is, nevertheless, an early authority.
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (d. 1503), bishop of St Asaph According to the pedigrees, he was descended from Tudur ap Rhys Sais. The family was seated in Trefor, near Llangollen, perhaps in ' Gavella Rosseriet ' (G. P. Jones, Extent of Chirkland, 15). He became warden of Ruthin and abbot of Valle Crucis, succeeding in the latter office John ap Richard (Peniarth MS 176 (53)). As abbot, he was a liberal patron of the bards, and both Gutun Owain and Guto'r
DAFYDD ap MAREDUDD GLAIS (fl. 1429-1468), cleric, murderer, civic official, and translator of a chronicle of the kings of England into Welsh He was the son of Maredudd Glais, a man who filled a number of municipal offices in Aberystwyth and Llanbadarn between 1411 and 1458. The date of Dafydd's birth is not known and the earliest mention of him in the records is as a pledge with John Robury and Griffith Prouth for Thomas Kirkham, abbot of Vale Royal, in respect of a fine in 1429. The three are described as clerics, and they
DAFYDD DARON (fl. 1400), dean of Bangor , following Le Neve, says he was outlawed, as a supporter of Owain Glyn Dŵr, in 1406, and adds, on his own information, that he was 'a wealthy man and son of Evan ap David ap Griffith, a descendant of Caradoc ap Iestyn.' More questionable is the assertion that he was the man in whose house the famous Tripartite Indenture was signed. According to the chronicler Hall, the sole authority for the place of

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