Dictionary of Welsh Biography

CORY family Two distinct families of industrialists in South Wales have borne this surname. This family, who founded Cory Brothers and Company Ltd., is to be differentiated from the family of John Cory I and his sons, who founded John Cory and Sons, Ltd. JOHN CORY (1828 - 1910), shipowner, coalowner, and philanthropist Business and Industry Philanthropy Born 28 March 1828 at Bideford, Devon, eldest son of
CORY family Two distinct families of industrialists in South Wales have borne this surname. This family, John Cory and Sons, Ltd. is to be differentiated from the family of Richard Cory I and his sons who founded the business Cory Brothers Ltd. JOHN CORY I (died 1891), Business and Industry of S. Julian's, near Newport, Monmouth, head of the firm of 'John Cory, Sons and Co.', was born at Padstow, Cornwall
COTTON, JOHN, printer - see EDDOWES, JOSHUA
COTTON, Sir STAPLETON (6th baronet, 1st viscount Combermere), (1773 - 1865), field-marshal came of the house of Salusbury of Llewenni - pedigree in J. E. Griffith, Pedigrees, 222. Sir John Salusbury (died s.p. 1684) left the estate to his sister HESTER (died 1710), who married Sir Robert Cotton, 1st baronet, of Combermere (died 1713); their son Sir THOMAS COTTON, 2nd baronet (died 1715), married Philadelphia Lynch. They had three children, of whom the youngest, Hester, married John
COX, JOHN (1800 - 1870), printer, bookseller, and postmaster G. Eyre Evans, Aberystwyth and its Court Leet (1902), provides a fairly complete list of the publications from the John Cox press. Among them were two newspapers - The Demetian Mirror; or Aberystwyth Reporter and Visitants' Informant …, which appeared once a week from 15 August 1840 till 31 October 1840, and The Aberystwyth Chronicle and Illustrated Times, a weekly paper published between 9 June
CRAWSHAY, Sir GEOFFREY CARTLAND HUGH (1892 - 1954), soldier and social benefactor ' and until 1947 he was an impressive mounted herald bard. The University of Wales in 1953 conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. He was High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1939, a deputy Lieutenant and J.P. for the county, and a knight of the Order of St. John. After his involuntary retirement he continued for another two years a losing battle with illness and died suddenly at a Cardiff hotel on
CROWTHER, JOHN NEWTON (Glanceri; 1847 - 1928), schoolmaster
CYFFIN, ROGER (fl. c. 1587-1609), a poet latter part of his life. No proof of the preceding statements remains, and only one of his poems refers to himself - NLW MS 3050D (612). In it the poet bade farewell to his home in Gartheryr, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, and to that particular district of Denbighshire. Some misfortune had befallen him, he had sold his land, and was ready to leave for South Wales, to live under the patronage of John Vaughan
CYNGAR (fl. 6th century), saint Two ' Vitae S. Cungari ' are known to modern biographers. The oldest, recently discovered in fragmentary form at Wells, Somerset, was composed probably in the 12th century; the second is a fuller but later version added to the 1516 printed edition of John of Teignmouth's 'Vitae SS.' They relate that, after founding Congresbury in Som., S. Cungar crossed to Glamorgan and landed on the banks of the
DAFYDD ab EDMWND (fl. 1450-1490), gentleman and bardic master Born in the parish of Hanmer in English Maelor, Flintshire, of the same lineage as the Hanmers and descended from John Upton, constable of Caernarvon Castle, 1306-1307, son of Sir John Macklesfield, was the owner of Yr Owredd and of other lands in Hanmer but spent part of his life, at any rate, at Tre Wepra, Englefield, his mother's old home; he was buried in Hanmer church. At the Carmarthen
DAFYDD ab IEUAN ab IORWERTH (d. 1503), bishop of St Asaph According to the pedigrees, he was descended from Tudur ap Rhys Sais. The family was seated in Trefor, near Llangollen, perhaps in ' Gavella Rosseriet ' (G. P. Jones, Extent of Chirkland, 15). He became warden of Ruthin and abbot of Valle Crucis, succeeding in the latter office John ap Richard (Peniarth MS 176 (53)). As abbot, he was a liberal patron of the bards, and both Gutun Owain and Guto'r
DAFYDD ab IFAN ab EINION (fl. 1440-1468), soldier and commander of Harlech Castle during the Wars of the Roses His fame rests on his defence of Harlech castle for the Lancastrians (1460-8) during the Wars of the Roses. His father, Ieuan ab Einion of Cryniarth and Hendwr in Edeirnion, Meironnydd, was a descendant of Llywelyn ap Cynwrig of Cors-y-Gedol; his mother, Angharad, was daughter and heiress of Dafydd ap Giwn Llwyd of Hendwr; his wife was Margaret, daughter of John Puleston of Emral, Flintshire

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