Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CALLAGHAN, LEONARD JAMES (1912 - 2005), politician secretary of the constituency Labour Party, Bill Headon. Callaghan won the nomination against George Thomas by a single vote - because he wore his navy uniform for the interview according to Thomas. Cardiff South had been a Conservative seat since 1918, except a brief period when Arthur Henderson won it for Labour in 1929-31, but in the 1945 election James Callaghan (as he was now known) took the seat
CAMPBELL, FREDERICK ARCHIBALD VAUGHAN, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911) commissioner in lunacy, 1886-93; and chairman of the Great Western Railway, 1895-1905. He succeeded as 3rd earl Cawdor on the death of his father, 1898. In 1905 (March-November) he was First Lord of the Admiralty in the Balfour Government. He played a leading part in opposition to the 'Lloyd George budget' of 1909 and in 1910 was concerned in discussions for the reform of the House of Lords. His interests
CARADOG (fl. 1135) LLANCARFAN, man of letters ; that he died in 1156 rests at present upon no better authority than David Powel's Historie, 1584.
CARNES, EDWARD (1772? - 1828), bookseller and printer It is possible that he started printing in June 1796; he may have been a bookseller before that. One of the best examples of his work is his edition, 1823, of David Jones, Blodeu-Gerdd Cymry. His printing office was in Whitford Street in 1828; William Carnes, who was a bookbinder in Well Street at the same time, may have been his brother. Edward Carnes died 25 May 1828, of typhus fever, aged 58.
CARTER family Kinmel, William procured an Act of Parliament, allowing him to sell out to Sir George Wynne of Leeswood, Flintshire; William then went to live at Redbourn, in Lincolnshire. The Kinmel estate continued to be an embarrassment even to its new owners, and in June 1781 a decree of Chancery sanctioned its sale to a David Roberts, of London, who, however (with his associates), sold it again, in 1786, to the Rev
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist . That is how MAC managed to sustain a bombing campaign for so long. As a result of Cayo's gift for propaganda, he and some of his comrades were invited to appear on David Frost's television programme in 1967. They were also filmed by a television crew from Israel. Indeed, documents released in 1999 show that the attention they gained, alongside the clandestine activities of MAC, came very close to
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) the Welsh. Towards the end of the 15th century, however, RICHARD CECIL, the first to use the modern form of the name, married into the Brecknock family of Vaughan of Tyle-glas. His younger son DAVID CECIL (died 1541) migrated, with some of his Brecknock 'cousins,' to Northamptonshire, where he entered the service of Henry VII, became a Yeoman of the Chamber, 1507, acquired the stewardship of several
CECIL-WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN LIAS CECIL (1892 - 1964), solicitor, secretary Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion and driving force behind the publishing of the Dictionary of Welsh Biography . In the words of Sir Thomas Parry-Williams, who was for a time President of the Society, Cecil-Williams maintained the office of secretary 'fiercely and untiringly to promote the welfare and protect the inheritance of Wales and the Welsh'. Although Professor R.T. Jenkins, together with Sir John Edward Lloyd and Sir William Llewelyn Davies, deserve the praise for the form and content of the DWB, it
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
CHARLES, BERTIE GEORGE (1908 - 2000), scholar and archivist , there appeared the magisterial tome George Owen of Henllys: a Welsh Elizabethan, the final product of decades of research, re-thinking and re-writing, and refined synthesis. In retirement he pressed on with his researches with renewed energy. In 1982 the Pembrokeshire Historical Society undertook the publication of his The English Dialect of South Pembrokeshire: Introduction and Word-List, a short
CHARLES, DAVID (1812 - 1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister three daughters, one of whom, with his widow, survived him. He was buried at Llanidloes. THOMAS CHARLES, F.R.C.S. (1811 - 1873), doctor Medicine David Charles's brother. He was christened 10 January 1811, practised at Menai Bridge (1841-6) and afterwards in London, emigrated to Sydney c. 1855, returned to Wales c. 1870, and practised at Pembroke and at Aberystwyth, where he died 11 April 1873. Two
CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer

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