Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CHARLES, DAVID (1762 - 1834), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and hymn-writer
CHARLES, DAVID (1803 - 1880), Calvinistic Methodist minister and hymnist Son of David Charles I, was born at Carmarthen. He was educated at the grammar school and the Presbyterian college at that town, and entered his father's business. Subsequently, like him, he began to preach in middle age, and was ordained to the ministry in 1851. He held a number of connexional offices, being joint-secretary of Trevecka college from 1842 to 1852, and moderator of the Association
CHARLES, EDWARD (Siamas Gwynedd; 1757 - 1828), writer He was born at Clocaenog, Denbighshire - christened there 23 September 1757 - son of Edward (yeoman) and Margaret Charles. Hardly anything is known of his early life; it is said that he was schooled by David Ellis, curate of Derwen, and was afterwards apprenticed at Ruthin (Jenkins, Thomas Charles, ii, 390). In 1789 at latest he was working in a draper's shop in London. On 5 April 1790 he was
CHARLES, GEOFFREY (1909 - 2002), photographer his marriage in 1939 to Verlie Blanche George (1907-1981). They had a son, John, and two daughters, Janet and Susan. Work for Y Cymro almost ceased during the war years when his efforts were concentrated on the Montgomeryshire Express. He also served on the Demonstration sub-committee of the Montgomeryshire War Agricultural Executive Committee helping publicise and implement improved farming
CHARLES, JAMES (1846 - 1920), Independent minister and theologian Born 6 December 1846 at Gelli-Fach near Llanddowror, son of David and Mary Charles. Shortly after his birth the family moved to Waunmabli farm, about three miles south-west of Carmarthen, where he was brought up with a view to the ministry. From Parc-y-felfed preparatory school (at Carmarthen) he went to the Independent college at Bala, and after four years there received a call to Llanuwchllyn
CHARLES, JOHN ALWYN (1924 - 1977), minister (Cong.) and college lecturer Alwyn Charles was born at Colombia Row, Llanelli, 18 December 1924, the son of David John Charles and his wife. He received his elementary education at St. Paul and Lakefield, Llanelli, prior to entering Woodend Secretarial College. From that college he went to serve as a clerk at the solicitors' office of Jennings and Williams. He began to preach at Capel Als, Llanelli, where the Reverend D. J
CHARLES, PHILIP (1721? - 1790), Presbyterian minister Little is known about him; he was a nephew of Philip David, and therefore presumably a Monmouthshire man. The name appears on the list of Carmarthen Academy students in 1745. In 1749 he succeeded Richard Rees as pastor of the newly incorporated congregation at Cefn-coed-cymer, an offshoot of Cwm-y-glo. He was an Arminian, and probably later on an Arian. D. 19 May 1790. His uncle's diaries have
CHARLES, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric He was born 14 October 1755, probably at Longmoor, Llanfihangel Abercowin, Carmarthenshire, son of Rees Charles, farmer, and his wife Jael, daughter of David Bowen of Pibwr Lwyd, sheriff of Carmarthenshire in 1763; David Charles I was his brother. From Llanddowror village school he went (1769) to Carmarthen Academy under Jenkin Jenkins, and thence (1775) to Jesus College, Oxford (B.A. 1779); his
CHARLES, WILLIAM JOHN (1931 - 2004), footballer , Peter and David), who transformed their family life. But this houseful of boys were not to be brought up in Yorkshire. For some years the best clubs in Europe had been eyeing John, and the first to strike was Juventus, a wealthy club in Turin which was keen to win prestigious trophies. They had a pretty weak team at the time and their negative style of play (catenaccio) was tedious to watch. The
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CLARK family, printers and publishers 1903 to Enoch Williams. James Clark died 12 June 1859. A fortnight after The Chepstow Weekly Advertiser began to appear, another Monmouthshire newspaper started its career - The Illustrated Usk Observer; this was printed and published at Usk by JAMES HENRY CLARK (1818 - 1913), another son of James Clark. J. H. Clark and his elder brother GEORGE A. CLARK (who, however, died at Chepstow 12 April 1835
CLARK, GEORGE THOMAS (1809 - 1898), engineer and antiquary Born in London 26 May 1809, he was the son of George Clark (1777 - 1848), a chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, and Clara Dicey; Samuel Clarke, the theologian, was his great-grandfather. He was educated at Charterhouse and after engaging for some time in medical studies qualified as an engineer. He worked (under Brunel) on the Great Western Railway (he published in 1839 an anonymous guide to the G.W.R

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