Dictionary of Welsh Biography

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.
CARNES, WILLIAM, bookbinder - see CARNES, EDWARD
CARTER family Kinmel, to William Price of Rhiwlas, Meironnydd, and in 1647 Elizabeth married John Carter. Sir JOHN CARTER (died 1676), colonel in the Parliamentary army Military, was born at Dinton, Buckinghamshire, a village rich in associations with the Parliamentary cause. He was the eldest son of a Thomas Carter; a younger son, William, became a wealthy London merchant. Tradition avers that John started life as a
CATHERALL, JONATHAN (1761 - 1833), industrialist and philanthropist two daughters died of a fever in 1818, aged 24 and 23 respectively; his son William was taken into partnership in 1819 on his twenty-first birthday. Jonathan Catherall died 31 July 1833 and was buried in the Independent chapel yard, Buckley.
CAYO-EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD JULIAN (1937 - 1995), political activist
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) Crown manors, and served as sheriff of Northampton in 1529-30. His son RICHARD CECIL of Burghley (died 1552) married into one of the Brecknock families that had settled in Northamptonshire in his grandfather's time, was a royal page at the Field of Cloth of Gold (1520), further enriched his family by monastic spoils, and became the father of WILLIAM CECIL (1520-1598) Politics, Government and Political
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
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure By the will of Sir John Stepney, dated 9 August 1802 (recited in ' An Act to enable William Chambers…to grant leases of certain estates,' 1840, copy in Cardiff Public Library), his property, in twenty-four parishes, was devised not to his brother, Thomas (who succeeded to the baronetcy on Sir John Stepney's death, 3 October 1811), nor to the heirs of his two sisters, but to six legatees
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1809 - 1882), magistrate - see CHAMBERS, WILLIAM
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff president of the British C.E. Union in 1924-25. In June 1954, as a tribute to his long-standing service to the East Glamorgan Baptist Association, he received a gift of an oil portrait of himself, painted by Alfred Hall, Cardiff, which he later presented to the Baptist College. He edited and contributed three chapters to the biography of one of his predecessors, The life of Principal William Edwards
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric life, Thomas Charles, now that Daniel Rowland and William Williams of Pantycelyn were dead, became the chief leader of his connexion. The books mentioned in a previous paragraph form but a part of his copious printed output - [in 1803, for the better furtherance of his publishing work, he had induced the printer Robert Saunderson to settle at Bala as quasiofficial printer to the connexion, but even
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer

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