Dictionary of Welsh Biography

COBB, JOSEPH RICHARD (1821 - 1897), antiquary ) at Brecon (see his Short Account of S. John the Evangelist … at Brecon, 1874), and of Manorbier castle; and he bought and thoroughly restored the castle of Caldicot, near Chepstow. He died 6 December 1897, at Brecon, and is commemorated by a memorial in Brecon cathedral.
COFFIN, WALTER (1784 - 1867), colliery pioneer Llandaff Court 15 February 1867. Coffin was a man of advanced views in theology. His father was the sole surviving trustee of the 'Old Meeting' at Bridgend when (soon after 1806) dissensions arose there; and Coffin was in this way enabled in 1816 to secure the election of John James (1779 - 1864) as pastor - the Old Meeting thus becoming Unitarian. At Dinas, too, Coffin's influence afforded Unitarianism
COKE, THOMAS (1747 - 1814), Wesleyan Methodist minister conference to send Owen Davies (1752 - 1830) and John Hughes (1776 - 1843) to Ruthin in August 1800.
COLEMAN, DONALD RICHARD (1925 - 1991), Labour politician . He famously succeeded in persuading the Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson to visit Neath in 1968 to hear at first-hand complaints about the closure of two local coal mines. He was a PPS, 1964-70 (including serving as PPS to George Thomas when he was the Secretary of State for Wales, 1968-70, and thus in effect minister of state for Wales; he also served under Eirene White and Cledwyn Hughes), an
COLLINS, WILLIAM LUCAS (1815 - 1887), cleric and author , 308, 394-5). Collins was born at Oxwich in Gower, son of the Rev. John and Elizabeth Collins ', and christened 23 May 1815. He was and was at Jesus College, Oxford; his father and grandfather held various benefices in Gower (Foster, Alumni Oxonienses); his great-grandfather may have been the 'John Collins of Swansea, gent.' named in Foster. He himself was rector of Cheriton in Gower, 1840-67. He
Congo House / African Training Institute family, students The school known initially as Congo House, or the Congo Training Institute, and later rebranded the African Training Institute, was established in Colwyn Bay in 1890 by Rev William Hughes (1856-1924), a Welsh Baptist minister and former missionary in the Congo Free State. In his short time in central Africa Hughes developed pessimistic views on Africans' likelihood of adopting Christianity via
CONSTANTINE, GEORGE (c . 1500 - 1560?), cleric executed with Anne Boleyn. Constantine was brought to S. Davids diocese by bishop Barlow, who made him vicar of Llawhaden. Following some unguarded remarks to John Barlow in 1539, Constantine was denounced to Cromwell as a 'sacramentary' and was lodged in the Tower. He regained favour, however, and became registrar of S. Davids in 1546, royal visitor of the diocese in 1547, archdeacon of Carmarthen in
CONWAY family Botryddan, Bodrhyddan, predecessors, JENKYN CONWAY (died about 19 September 1432), grandson of Richard, married a Welshwoman, Marsli, daughter of Maredudd ap Hywel ap Dafydd of Cefn-y-fan, ancestor of the Wynn family of Gwydir, and the accession of Elizabeth I found the family firmly established as an integral part of Flintshire society. JOHN CONWAY (died 1578), grandson of Thomas Conway (died before 1526), and great-great
CONWAY, JOHN (c.1545 - 1606), high sheriff - see CONWAY
COOMBE TENNANT, WINIFRED MARGARET (Mam o Nedd; 1874 - 1956), delegate to the first assembly of the League of Nations, suffragette, Mistress of the Robes of the Gorsedd of the Bards, and a well-known medium had a great interest in Welsh culture, though she never completely mastered the Welsh language. She died 31 August 1956 at her home in 18 Cottesmore Gardens, Kensington. She wished for neither flowers nor mourning at her funeral. On 17 September a memorial service was held in All Saints by the Tower, where James Nicholas represented the Welsh Baptist Union and Sir John Cecil Cecil-Williams the
COOMBES, BERT LEWIS (1893 - 1974), coal miner and writer political magazine, Welsh Labour Outlook, in January 1935. Two years later, Coombes's literary ambition became evident, and the working miner published his first short story, 'The Flame', in the magazine New Writing. The London-based, left-wing publishers were clearly impressed by Coombes's ostensibly authentic accounts of working life in the south Wales coalfield. John Lehmann - founder of New Writing
CORBETT, JOHN STUART (1845 - 1921), solicitor and antiquary Born 16 May 1845, eldest son of John Stuart Corbett and Elizabeth, daughter of James Evans of Gortha (Radnorshire); the father had come to Cardiff in 1841 as agent to his relative, the 2nd marquis of Bute. He was educated at Cheltenham, admitted a solicitor in 1867, and practised in partnership in Cardiff; he held the office of clerk to the Llandaff bench of magistrates. In 1872 he married

Search results

157 - 168 of 2603 for "john hughes"