Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CARNE, Sir EDWARD (c. 1500 - 1561), lawyer and diplomat 'involuntary' character saved his Glamorgan estates - swollen since 1537 by his marriage to the widow of Sir John Raglan - for his son THOMAS CARNE, who, although a recusant (as were many of the family till well on in the next century), was twice M.P. and thrice sheriff for his county.
CARTER family Kinmel, Kinmel, near Abergele, once the property of a Lloyd family (Yorke, Royal Tribes, 2nd edn., 113), changed hands when Alice, heiress of Gruffudd Lloyd, married Richard ap Dafydd ab Ithel Fychan, of Plas Llaneurgain (Northop). Their daughter and heiress, Catherine, married Pyrs Holland (died 1552), of Faerdref (see Holland families, No. 5); thus was founded the house of Holland of Kinmel (ibid., No
CASNODYN (fl. 1320-40), poet Ieuan ap Gruffudd, of Ceredigion (an elegy to Angharad, wife of this Ieuan, is attributed to Dafydd ap Gwilym). He also sang to the Trinity, and his elegy to Madog Fychan of Coetref, Llangynwyd, steward of Tir Iarll under the lord of Glamorgan, and a man of considerable importance about 1330, is the first extant poem to any male member of a Glamorgan family. Casnodyn has other references to places in
CATHERALL, JONATHAN (1761 - 1833), industrialist and philanthropist The youngest of three sons of John and Martha Catherall of Buckley, Flintshire. He was studying in London for the legal profession when his father died, 7 December 1777, and he came home to assist his mother in the pottery business established by the family in the 17th century. When his mother died in 1792 he took over the sole management of and greatly extended the business. In 1792 also he
CECIL family Allt-yr-ynys, Burghley, Hatfield, Northampton) The claim that this distinguished English political family is of Welsh origin calls for some clarification. The ancestral name, which appears in the family pedigrees as 'Sitsyllt' and was softened down to 'Sissild,' 'Cyssel,' 'Cecild,' and 'Cecil' in the course of the 15th and 16th century, is presumably the Welsh Seisyll; but the founder of the family, ROBERT SITSYLTT, first appears in history
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 Born 14 October 1892 in Paddington, London, one of two children of John Cadwaladr Williams, a doctor, and Catherine (née Thomas) his wife. (The son adopted the hyphenated name of Cecil-Williams by deed-poll in 1935). The family came from Uwch Aled. He was educated first in London and, for a year or so, in the village school at Cerrigydrudion. Returning to London he attended the City of London
CHALONER, THOMAS (d. 1598), Ulster King of Arms Some particulars of this painter, poet, antiquary, and actor are given by W. J. Hemp in ' Two Welsh Heraldic Pedigrees, with notes on Thomas Chaloner, Ulster King of Arms,' in Y Cymm., xl. He was the fourth son of Robert Chaloner of Denbigh by his wife Dowce, daughter of Richard Mathew of Lleweni Green, Denbighshire. As Hemp points out, several members of the family were students of heraldry and
CHAMBERS, WILLIAM (1774 - 1855), industrialist and public figure , unrelated to the family, and their male heirs, in reversion, of whom one was William Chambers of Bicknor in Kent. After Chambers's death, in default of issue male, the estate should revert to Sir Thomas Stepney, and, afterwards, to the heirs of his two sisters. Very remarkably, one legatee after another died in quick succession without heirs, so that the estate passed to William Chambers on 18 December
CHANCE, THOMAS WILLIAMS (1872 - 1954), minister (B) and principal of the Baptist College, Cardiff Born 23 August 1872, son of Thomas Chance (died 5 January 1873, 29 yearss old) and Mary (born Williams; died 15 August 1908, 79 years old) of Erwood, Brecknock. He received his early education at Pen-rhiw school, but because of his father's early death he had to leave school when he was 11 years old to earn his living as a farm servant and maintain the family for the next 9 years, initially at
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, THOMAS (1755 - 1814), Methodist cleric parish church of Bala. His widow survived him by a mere three weeks, dying on 24 October They left two sons, Thomas Rice Charles, father of David Charles III, and of Jane Charles who became the wife of Lewis Edwards, who continued the family business, and David James Charles, who practised at Bala as a physician.
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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